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. The mayor of Fargo, North Dakota says a levee breach 1 that allowed the Red River to flood an elementary school early Sunday is a "wake-up call". He said that shows a threat that the city faces for the next week. Water crept under a permanent dike 2 and flooded the school early Sunday.


2. Police say a gunman opened fire at a North Carolina nursing home Sunday, killing 3 six and wounding at least two others. The gunman was also injured before he was apprehended 4 by police after the 10 a.m. shooting. It happened at Pinelake Health and Rehab in Carthage.


3. Anti-nuclear groups held protest vigils for the 30th anniversary of America's worst nuclear power plant accident. A small amount of radiation was released into the air of Three Mile Island in 1979. No nuclear power plants have been built in the US since then.


4. Australians gathered and killed thousands of toads 5 this weekend. Officials in Queensland say the toads eat other animals and ravage 6 the landscape. They'll be turned into fertilizer.



1 breach
n.违反,不履行;破裂;vt.冲破,攻破
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
2 dike
n.堤,沟;v.开沟排水
  • They dug a dike along walls of the school.他们沿校墙挖沟。
  • Fortunately,the flood did not break the dike.还好,这场大水没有把堤坝冲坏。
3 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
4 apprehended
逮捕,拘押( apprehend的过去式和过去分词 ); 理解
  • She apprehended the complicated law very quickly. 她很快理解了复杂的法律。
  • The police apprehended the criminal. 警察逮捕了罪犯。
5 toads
n.蟾蜍,癞蛤蟆( toad的名词复数 )
  • All toads blink when they swallow. 所有的癞蛤蟆吞食东西时都会眨眼皮。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Toads have shorter legs and are generally more clumsy than frogs. 蟾蜍比青蛙脚短,一般说来没有青蛙灵活。 来自辞典例句
6 ravage
vt.使...荒废,破坏...;n.破坏,掠夺,荒废
  • Just in time to watch a plague ravage his village.恰好目睹了瘟疫毁灭了他的村庄。
  • For two decades the country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign intervention.20年来,这个国家一直被内战外侵所蹂躏。
学英语单词
acceptant
action of accounting
airator
American foxhound
ammoniac and mercury plaster
arteriolae rectae
Asterias Seamount
bar code check character
barbella pendula
Benifallim
blanking code
Brahmo Samaj
brown madder
bulwarked
cane carrier
carriage works
carrier grade
catalyst promoter
chgar
clomse
closed shed
cockade ore
cork ring
cubic capacity of tanks
danger sound
dark-field microscopes
disauthorize
dishonorably
Distributed COM
emitter timing monostable circuit
escopet
extraction titration
fiaunts
filo-
frequency thermometer
glyceritum tragacanthae
great improvement
gun-pointing radar
hematogenous dissemination
highburies
hode
hyomandibular cartilage (or hyomandibula)
ibm tivoli storage resource manager agent
inner dead center
Insp. Gen.
intertrigo ani
intervention schedule
intransitable
iodinated contrast reagent
ivy geraniums
Iłżanka
kna(u)r
landslide victory
language acquisition model
levodesoxyephedrine
Lojbanistan
manganous oxide
manual shut down
meat hookss
medullo
metallochelation
Michel parameter
microporous membrane technique
misexpound
mix business with pleasure
no cure no pay
non-turbo
nonspheres
outyielding
penal servitude for definite period
photoelastometry
piercing tentacle
plumbi monoxidum
pneumat-
prediger
regurgitant vomiting
rotor head drag
RST (restart)
scratch your head
screenhouses
shadow gazer
Shamash
single-kick multivibrator
software for industrial process control
spring loaded drill colter
stick bite
stoopest
sword of Damocles
sychnosphygmia
telegraphic
tolu tree
trap hairs
unterberger
use of radical scavenger
variance criterion
VDR (voltage-dependent resistor)
wheel work
wilkinson power divider
wristguard
Yixian Formation
yonnondios
zigzag lightning