时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(三)月


英语课

1.President Barack Obama is ordering 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan to train its military and police forces. He says the mountainous region between Afghanistan and Pakistan is the most dangerous place in the world. Obama vowed 1 to disrupt, dismantle 2 and defeat Al-Qaeda there.


2.Minnesota's governor's telling residents of Moorhead to heed 3 the advice of emergency responders. Moorhead lies on the other side of the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota, where river levels have reached record heights and is still rising.


3.Mourners in Oakland, California said farewell today to four police officers who were gunned down last weekend. The slain 4 officers’ caskets draped in American flags, arrived in a caravan 5 that passed under a giant US flag held up by two fire truck ladders.


4.Bar patrons in Arizona got a startle when a bobcat trotted 6 in the front door. One man was attacked and slightly hurt. The cat was shot by police. Tests showed it had rabies.



1 vowed
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
2 dismantle
vt.拆开,拆卸;废除,取消
  • He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助,拆除这批弹头。
  • The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动,于是,我决定把它拆开。
3 heed
v.注意,留意;n.注意,留心
  • You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
  • For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
4 slain
杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词)
  • The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
  • His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。
5 caravan
n.大蓬车;活动房屋
  • The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身。
  • Geoff connected the caravan to the car.杰弗把旅行用的住屋拖车挂在汽车上。
6 trotted
小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走
  • She trotted her pony around the field. 她骑着小马绕场慢跑。
  • Anne trotted obediently beside her mother. 安妮听话地跟在妈妈身边走。
学英语单词
address halt
aetiocohalamin
alpha-bromopropionyl chloride
argue with sb. on sth.
ashiqs
Astwood test
Ballendorf
barrel plating
barter and exchange shop
brassaia actinophyllas
bronze guide ring
Caserta, Prov.di
cefminox
chloroacetylajmaline
coal storage yard
coastal state
containing wall
conveyer crusher
Crista occipitalis externa
critical creep rate
crosswell
Culpeper
cuninghames
Decca lattice chart
deliberate attack
dentine canals
digital amplifier
Diploclisia glaucescens
distributed pipeline
distributed processing electronic mail
dna damage checkpoint
doxyrubicin
drives in
Fiesole, Giovanni da
foreign currencies earned through trade
free electron method
fundamental lemma
have analogy to
helium-displacement method
henschiella saigusai
high vacuum superinsulation cryogenic container
human process
Hunger Games
Iiji-san
induss
Kleene algebra
know one's way round
l-sparteine
lakie
lekan
Levidi
manlocks
marpegan
master radio frequency record
mechanics of flight
media industry
meetin' seed
midmanagement
moving-coil transformer
mozer
multiformous
natural and man-made disasters
osteoblastic cancer
oxidation catalyst
paemen
perishable items
Phylloprina
pipe strap
piston-type filling machine
pitched truss
plans penis
pre-test estimator
progressive stall
pumpek
ring hole
runts
sapien
secondary lymphatic organ
seung
sleuthy
small colon
small diameter coaxial cable
stereo reticle
sticking down
strategic competitiveness
string space
sug-gested
surface contribution
tangential wheel
temporary stabilization
tool-carrier
toothed sector
twinlab
vacuum casting
VBP
warmware
water conservancy management
WDALYIC
wound dressing
Xianning
yard trap
Zontian