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
a pretty go
accident of birth
aclarubicin
action real
acute febrile infectious jaundice
agglutination
ague-root
ahungalla
Alisher
amphibious shipping
antiscorbutic factor
automation of tank batteries
badmouthing
beam return
bottom gully erosion
bottom-up control structure
business type budget
character of curve
Chehalis Indian Reservation
chinos
cold solder joint
compound tubuloacinar gland
countergirl
cue head
digestive enxyme
display adapters
drop millstones
eight bit control register
elastic limit under compression
Export Licensing Regulations
finite precision
fluorosed
fragipans
freak stocks
Gillette, King Camp
glacial boundary
goatsuckers
grammatolatries
gravity formula
heavy electroplate
hygrobates hamatus
i-erded
identical series
iliac septum
impulse excited circuit
incatenation
iniforis violaceus
inops
kicked his ass
Kiiminki
kirchgassner
kotow kowtow
lymphocyte series
macro aggregate
mechanoreceptors
miner theodolite
mlst
multi-directional laminates
murus gallicus
noast
nonmonetary gold
number of thread
Ofterdingen
oliarus yangi
orthopterous
overdue account receivable
pirate flag
plug wood
polyarthrodactylous
polyphenotypic
principal work
propelling nozzle
pulse tachometer
purchase trial
radio interference measuring instrument
records retention
refuse incineration furnace
regular space
reservoir region
rocker panel
root kill
s-video
safety net facility
Samosdelka
scenarise
selenureted
shaft driven oil pump
silo corn
slide wire potentiometer
soakiest
solar-energy evaporator
standard and recommended practices (sarps)
stemphylium botryosum wallroth
telepaque
Tofieldia thibetica
tread road
UBC3
vasculoprotective
visual aids
well-manageds
wild buckwheats
Wurio