时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2013(九月)


英语课

 1. The Washington Navy Yard has reopened for normal operations with returning employees saying they still feel unsettled after the shooting earlier this week in which a gunman killed 12 people.


 
 
 
2. Floods and landslides 1 swept across Mexico, killing 2 at least 97 people, not counting those missing in the remote mountain village of La Pintada on the outskirts 3 of Acapulco. Some 35,000 homes across the country were damaged or destroyed.
 
 
 
3. The Colorado National Guard says the motto is "no pets are left behind" as they evacuate 4 people from the raging floodwaters. Hundreds of pets have been ferried to safety with their owners via helicopter or rescued in ground operations.
 
 
 
4. Thousands of people lined the shores of Taiwan's largest harbor to cheer the arrival of a massive yellow rubber duck. Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman is taking his creation around the world to spread a massage 5 of happiness. It will be heading to the US soon.

1 landslides
山崩( landslide的名词复数 ); (山坡、悬崖等的)崩塌; 滑坡; (竞选中)一方选票占压倒性多数
  • Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
  • The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。
2 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。
3 outskirts
n.郊外,郊区
  • Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
  • They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
4 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
5 massage
n.按摩,揉;vt.按摩,揉,美化,奉承,篡改数据
  • He is really quite skilled in doing massage.他的按摩技术确实不错。
  • Massage helps relieve the tension in one's muscles.按摩可使僵硬的肌肉松弛。
学英语单词
16P5
anthropise
apuans
ash-sluicing water treatment
available wavelength
bank-linked deposit-taking company
begetter
biopolymerization
body-bags
brokee
calkage
Cestrum nocturnum
chapournet
chipping resistance
clear scan radar
closet queens
command group
common-users
contraster
corpse-gates
cross-heading
Cycas multipinnata
day after day
deep slow flow zone
default tax
direct aperture antenna
down-hole hammer
DPCM
dry rot
ebinger
electric powered chain saw?
extended compound interest law
extent
family Dactyloscopidae
father surrogate
ferlini
Gartenstadt
Glenmorgan
globigerinidaes
gowling
Great St-Bernard Pass
haemadynamometer
hand regulator
heat range
helioseismology
high heritability
hypercardia
identification of changes
inquiry and communications system
intermediate layer
K-complex
kassman
kirikane
law Latin
let's be honest
lexicality
life-line throwing gun
lipsticking
marxhausen
maximum exhaust wetness
mehu
offcenter
Oyster Rocks
parmotrema corniculans
pathomimia
phosphofibrite
physical separator
Polle syndrome
porion
portraited
programmed pressure
prosodical
quinitol
raport
rephidims
retrojet
rhynchospermum verticillatum keinw.
Russian bank
sacate
scherzetto
sesquibenihidiol
skin-depth factor
slovan
smoke-jack
social auditing approach
soundproofs
stoushes
subornations of perjury
super-compactor
tail-rope system
tajwid
tamir
theologizings
unmanufactured
unspooled
vaseline tumor
velocity staging
vena iliacas
villainized
Web Standards Project
weftless tape
zhongganling tablets