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
adult mortality
ammonium nitrate-fuel oil mixture
antidecuplet
antireflexive relation
aolan
belaboured
bete noires
bicameral legislature
bongard
cappies
Cetaxol
chemical derusting
cock-and-hen club
cold-pig
commercial leverage
complanata
components
constant chord blade
contribution theory of taxation
counselorships
cystathionuria
cystic adamantoblastoma
defamation
drunk drivers
drying aids
envelope distortion
error of echo sounder
euphoristic
events of termination
exomic
experimental morphology
fibrecrafts
financial homogenization
flagellar movement
flirt with sth
forfeiture of sum
Frankenstein complexes
frequency-domain measurement
genus Engraulis
go-rounds
infratectal
installation ceremony
Jack in a Box
Joyce's Country
Lagrange's equation
low-prf radar
machiavellians
mangbetu
Mantle, Mickey
Mexic
mining bord and pillar
mitered bat
modulation acceptance bandwidth
mud glacier
munshell color system
negative good will
negative type photoresist
nerand
neuromimetic
omphaloidium
open flow system
outloading conveyor
ovar-
pachtas
pajamahs
Pecha
periodic voltage
physical conformation
pigeon-holed wall
processor memory switch
public enforcement
quadrant unit
restrictive policy
retention factor
riding stability
sell the bear's skin before one has caught the bear
single air gripper feed
solute atoms
Space-Occupying
steam cylinder
sub-console
taniwhas
temporary admission
though-whether
time cut-out
to put forward
tra-las
traditional Chinese gynecology
transfusionist
trippin' balls
tungstate ceramics
tyveks
Umm Kaddādah
unimmortal
universal-joint fork
vicilan
view-factor
waiting message
watashikomi
wave-powered
X-ray resist
zygoapophysis