时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2012(八月)


英语课

 1. The Gulf 1 Coast is getting ready for Wednesday's possible arrival of Isaac. Isaac is expected to grow to a Category 2 hurricane. The governors of Mississippi and Louisiana have declared states of emergency.


 
 
 
2. Republican National Committee officials have released a tightened 3 three-day schedule for the party's national convention in Tampa, Florida. This after postponing 4 most of Monday's events because of Tropical Storm Isaac. Presidential candidate Mitt 2 Romney and vice 5 presidential candidate Paul Ryan will both be nominated Tuesday.
 
 
 
3. Protesters have arrived in Tampa for the republican national convention. But it's unlikely they'll cross paths with the GOP. Demonstrators are being kept blocks away.
 
 
 
4. And this isn't your granddad's pogo stick. At the Orange County Fair recently, pogo athletes showed off their moves in an effort to kickstart a brand new extreme sport.

1 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
2 mitt
n.棒球手套,拳击手套,无指手套;vt.铐住,握手
  • I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日,我送给他一只棒球手套。
  • Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
3 tightened
收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)变紧; (使)绷紧; 加紧
  • The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
  • His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机,然后又松开了。
4 postponing
v.延期,推迟( postpone的现在分词 )
  • He tried to gain time by postponing his decision. 他想以迟迟不作决定的手段来争取时间。 来自辞典例句
  • I don't hold with the idea of postponing further discussion of the matter. 我不赞成推迟进一步讨论这件事的想法。 来自辞典例句
5 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
学英语单词
ad-libbers
aggregate at constant price
air blast moisture control
allurant
ambrosia cell
Australian Open
autometallography
balanced scorecard
barium naphthanate
be at pains
bleed red ink
blood brother
bottle packer
brake pedal shaft
briyn
caustic silver
checkered-plate
CHINAEDI,CHINA EDI
clothes moth
crotonis fructus
database graph software
desingularizations
differential steering
dirtproof
disincorporating
duplex air pump
eigen-mobility
electronic trunk scale
ex-officio
financial reporting
fixed manufacturing overhead standard
forward conducing region
fractional drive
frame scan
frequency scan radar
fumaroid form
gane-
general function
gladdenest
gleyer
growth disk,growth plate
heart-wise
Heteromeles arbutifolia
house cat
hydropneumatic
interest on loans from other bank
internal controls
isolated personnel report
kaiak
Kaye disk centrifuge
kinjo
kuhlman
lavigno
leuco dyeing-IW process
ligamenta annulare radii
Limnocypridea
maraisii
marijuana cigarettes
marine life zone
miniature cuckoo clock pendulum rod
Moriguédou
octaklor
oligoleges
our time
overparking
pavement quality measuring instrument
Pelagie, Is.
pig-eyed
preauricular fistula
pure white stone
R.D.P.
rate control
reaction promotion
reversal trial
rural labor
safenwils
saitama
sales quotas
Scutellaria barbata
securitarian
semi-coherent
semi-conjugate axis
separate self-excitation
stringy pulse
strontium ore deposit
superromantic
tape holder
tappet rod for valve
the glimpses of the moon
three-legs type core
trade market
underground secondary conveyor haulage
undivided road
urforms
variable length character
ventral light reflex
Viitaniemiite
Virilon
water conveyance loss
WHD
Williams ixora
yellow trichonocardiasis