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 forecast from Fargo may have good news. The Red River may be reaching its crest 1, lower than previously 2 thought, just under 41 feet and dropping. But the mayor is warning conditions could still change.


2. Space Shuttle Discovery is back on Earth, landing at Cape 3 Canaveral in Florida after a 13-day mission to the International Space Station. The touchdown happened a little late because of cloudy and windy weather.


3. Protesters take to the streets of London ahead of the G20 summit of world leaders. Marchers say they want governments to solve the economic crisis in the interests of working people.


4. Blizzards 4 and snowdrifts stranded 5 some 1200 passengers on five trains in Russia for two days. Russian news agency say drifts are 13 feet high but those on board have food and water.



1 crest
n.顶点;饰章;羽冠;vt.达到顶点;vi.形成浪尖
  • The rooster bristled his crest.公鸡竖起了鸡冠。
  • He reached the crest of the hill before dawn.他于黎明前到达山顶。
2 previously
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
3 cape
n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风
  • I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
  • She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。
4 blizzards
暴风雪( blizzard的名词复数 ); 暴风雪似的一阵,大量(或大批)
  • Even in the summertime we might be struck by blizzards. 甚至在夏天,我们也可能受到暴风雪的袭击。
  • Blizzards battered Britain for the third day. 大风雪袭击英国已进入第三天。
5 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
学英语单词
after crank shaft
assignable contract
bays
behavio(u)r ecology
bias-cut fabric
bible-thumping
biofathers
business prosperity
business reports
camp point
clary-sage
coleosporium clerodendri
come as no surprise to
commodities are available without restriction
cynde
data scoping
delivery contract
Dimmer keratitis
direct-current dynamometer
domestic fine pottory
down-at-the-heels
employee-related
ENTW
false-flag
femto-pascal
floating neutral
for the time
forwent
foursenery
Frome, River
Fulbourn
get entangled with sb
glimmer
goerne
gonell air elutriator
good egg
ground state
guiora
hearkened
hemorrhagic cysts
hendily
Hilbert invariant integral
Hoffmann's violet
iletin
inmix
insulated boots
lamont-doherty
landau pomeranchuk effect
leiognathus lineolatus
libelous
limulus eye
line of reference
lubricating quality
manchildren
map representation
median mass
Meier Helmbrecht
methylguanidinase
micro-hardness testing
miseducative
Murrumbidgee R.
nerveway
ngcs
nonleague
of great weight
Oreocharis leveilleana
ortho-vanadic acid
outan
output decentralized system
palmspan
piptanthus concolor harrow
plea of military necessity
programmed marginal check
property income
put out a pilot balloon
radial system
remco
rived
saunaing
schistosomial cirrhosis
sensory index
soil surface thermometer
steering angle indicator
structural behavior
subdividable
superpolynomial
Tamarix arceuthoides
tarte au citron
the prince of egypt
tie-clip
transistor noise
trouble seeking
ulva linza
urban climate
vertical colour stripe filter
whelve
willendorf
X-band microwave source
yard limit
Zuinglianism