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
abodings
ambulacral area (ambulacrum)
ass-kicker
Banach manifold
biljana
blacksmith's bellows
burgundy (bourgogne)
camote
canzoneri
capital outlays
Catalogue of Geodetical Stars
choroidal branch of fourth ventricle
closed contract of insurance
conflict zone
continental europe
copiloting
core floatation
Culture Club
currency without legal rate
desoxyribonucleic
dipropyl carbonate
distelfink
disymmetry
dressed pony mane
dwarf pine oil
dylan
earth-normal
economy resistance
Edsvalla
epylisin
evapo-transpiration
excrete
Father of Radio
feeding motion
flexible overlay
flock dyeing
fob ... off
free vibration mode
global context
heat haze
Hermit Kingdom
Heterosiphonales
HLSI (hybrid LSI)
hyaloenchondroma
ibotenic acid
intangibleness
iodoso-
Iwanda
koliba
mannies
mewborn
molecular theory of solution
Narcine brasiliensis
nests
neuroglycopenic
nonoptimal
nonsoiled
novuulen
oncologies
oral robats
pagibaximab
periglaciations
poker faced
principle of exclusivity
pulsed neutron-capture log
putting on
quinine dihydrochloride
rattuss
reconfigurable processor
resident doctor
restrained expansion
rotating induction motor
running waterline
sand moulding process
Sayaka
sewgee
siddique
slip her
snowdomes
soil particle
spindle body-shape
squake
steersmen
Surendranagar
surge-pressure test
toddle along
Tooligie
trough drop
twisted-up
twychen
ultraradicals
undergo an examination
underground levelling
undomesticates
uranous fluoride
vane-type nozzle block
VG-BWS
whirlpool tank
whistle like a blackbird
wing assembly
Yos Sudarso, Pulau
zoophilous