时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2013(二月)


英语课
1. The Mayor of Kansas City says there could still be more victims in the rubble 1 of a restaurant that was destroyed by a gas explosion and fire yesterday evening. Search crews have recovered one body but aren't sure everyone is accounted for.
 
2. Former Congressman 2 Jesse Jackson Jr. is admitting in court that he used campaign money for personal use. His guilty plea could bring him between 46 and 57 months in prison. 
 
3. The investigating officer in the Oscar Pistorius murder case made an error in his court testimony 3 Wednesday when he identified a substance found in the athlete's bedroom as testosterone. Officials say it's too early to identify the substance. 
 
4. And take a look at this hailstorm indoors. The experiment was done to see how hail can damage buildings and perhaps lead to more hail resistant 4 materials.

1 rubble
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
2 Congressman
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
3 testimony
n.证词;见证,证明
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
4 resistant
adj.(to)抵抗的,有抵抗力的
  • Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
  • They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。
学英语单词
ammonium ethylsulfate
areawide
balanced microphone
behren's method
bicable ropeway
billeter
blandishers
bleepers
bowshot
Callimachus
can you beat it
chatfly
Chemical Mace
continental sedimentation
counter-argument
cycloparaffinic hydrocarbons
damnement
deadmelt
deep-pile fabric
diglycol aldehyde
do the full monty
down-the-hole hammer
drill duck bill
eaten up
elastic fibrous tissue
enata
essence of disease
express lane
flap operation
flat-lying deposit
free field stress
funneliform
geochemical closed system
government osi profile
hydroscopy agent
hyperbaric oxygen cabin
impertinency
intercontinental geosyncline
ka lae
Kingdom of England
knot tying device
lagging power-factor
Larus canus
lethargy
like a lead balloon
look out!
loose ... tongue
Lophophorata
Mahanuvara
manual-balance instrument
Maximowiczia chinensis
mean age at first marriage
metrifudil
micro-locations
micropyles
more fool you
mushroom wine sauces
narrow share
national governors association (nga)
necktie-party
newtron
nine techniques of needling
Noreste, B.
obligation of giving claim notice
operable control rod
outthrow
PD Drives
pili papillae
play footsie with
projecting lamp
punch with corrugated nose
rattlebacks
rebatement
rebecomings
recourse for non acceptance
Redhouse Point
Rennie
retrieval facility
ring resonator
sagan (sagang-ni)
SBE effect
schaar
second feature
selenoid bodies
service request signal
somatic diastematy
spiral plates
stable river bed
stage bleeding
stock clerk
symmetrical splitting
temperature monitoring
tendoplication
the ship of the desert
theory of the Eight Trigrams
thickness gauge
tonsillar nerve
transhydrogenation
trolley coach
ungovernability
visiting right
withdrawal of signal