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
acts of enclosure
adamantinomata
affinity reagents
aglide
alliteration
androgenetic merogony
anti-popular
band saw welding clamp
bandmill
belosynapsis kawakamii
beton paint
Boila
bushbabies
bymovirus
carry no weight
centralized regulation
centuries
Charlottetown
chef cap
citrus yatsushiro hort ex tanaka
cunife
dbltg
deficiency of either yin or yang
distance between two distribution
djaggeri
down-grade and up-grade
dumpily
duration-limited
economic development accountancy
educational channel
eight-lane
etnias
family geastraceaes
fetologies
FFE
flame cut(ting)
foreign currency translation risk
garden path sentence
glabellar
glacimarine
Gryllus testaceus
hand picked
have at sb
hole-gauge
homonomies
hydrosulfuryl
hyponatraemias
identification marks
intellectual dysfunction
invisible aircraft
limonia (geranomyia) pictorum
line controlled blocking oscillator
lining wear
lotium
mennyms
mercury tank
mining radiation hazard
minotto
monacos
nodulous limonite
oversharpening
porous polymer beads
powder trier
preorder traversal
pressure oil atomizer
psychotherapy integration
pure wool
Pustosh'
quantu
questionatively
quota profit
refrigerating capacity of swept volume
relay operated system
reserve posting system
respirability
rodchenko
run-through
salted egg
set of reaction jets
shell shocks
single handed
skiddie
smell-o-ramas
sonar guidance
South Pole
stem valve
sympathomimesis
systematic treatment
tailings chest
tallboys
top blast
tungstate radicle
Tursunbai
union-tribune
unipolar shaping
Uvaria tonkinensis
valumetric efficiency
Variable contribution
ventral pancreatic duct
warming-up time
Wilson winterhazel
yellow alert