时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(一)月


英语课

 1. Bill Cosby has been charged with aggravated 1 assault stemming from a sexual assault case in 2004. The 78-year-old entertainer is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago. The charges mean he could face a prison sentence of 5-10 years behind the bars. 


 
2. Government officials tour damage to homes in Rowlett, Texas Wednesday morning after nine tornados 2 swept through the Dallas area on Saturday. Roofs of homes were torn off as officials met with homeowners in the residential 3 area. 
 
3. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a major overhaul 4 of police training after a series of fatal shootings by police, sparking weeks of protests. New requirements mandate 5 officers responding to calls be equipped with a taser to try to resolve potentially violent situations. 
 
4. And a giant squid made a rare appearance at a Japanese bay. The 12-foot-long tentacled 6 creature was spotted 7 by locals at a fishing pier 8. Giant squids normally inhabit deep seas rather than coastal 9 areas. 

1 aggravated
使恶化( aggravate的过去式和过去分词 ); 使更严重; 激怒; 使恼火
  • If he aggravated me any more I shall hit him. 假如他再激怒我,我就要揍他。
  • Far from relieving my cough, the medicine aggravated it. 这药非但不镇咳,反而使我咳嗽得更厉害。
2 tornados
n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
  • And the national weather service reports several tornados touch down. 国家气象中心报告预测龙卷风将来袭。 来自互联网
  • They had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes. 他们存有关于闪电、龙卷风和飓风的电影胶片。 来自互联网
3 residential
adj.提供住宿的;居住的;住宅的
  • The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
  • The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
4 overhaul
v./n.大修,仔细检查
  • Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
  • It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知,铁路系统需要大检修。
5 mandate
n.托管地;命令,指示
  • The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
  • The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
6 tentacled
有触角[触手]的
7 spotted
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
8 pier
n.码头;桥墩,桥柱;[建]窗间壁,支柱
  • The pier of the bridge has been so badly damaged that experts worry it is unable to bear weight.这座桥的桥桩破损厉害,专家担心它已不能负重。
  • The ship was making towards the pier.船正驶向码头。
9 coastal
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
学英语单词
A-G ratio
Acanthamoeba
actual fault and privity
aerythropsia
affeers
Ammotrechella
amorphous ice
amphoriskos
amselem
applicationlinks
apyron
armipotent
asbestos cement insulation board
backup path
ballsed up
be your epitaph
biocomposite
block structured process
Boliden salt
born of woman
caranx djeddaba
charenton
chocolade
cloud flask
cocktail sauces
common dollar accounting
compound rest top
consolidated freight rate
corrosion resistivity
crazyquilt
criterion value
cuadernos
cultured fishes
degradated spheroidization
dyeder
eidelberg
electrloytic zine
encoder group
endofunctor
fax over VoIP
featherings
fossildom
fulroes
fumigator
genus auricularias
gloc ben-y
gravity percolation
helen laura sumner woodburies
hemisects
hogshit
homeotransplant
hvdrocoral
impulse train
inertia unloader
inverse duplex receiver
irrevisability
kick up a stink
l'chaym
master clear
mesurement over pins
more sophisticated economy
multiple user connection
mumzum
number of transaction in error
O rly
oil spill
one's lips are sealed
onlyborns
original edition
ownership of data
photographic quality
Plomari
Plt.
preformist
procursive epilepsies
pseudocumenol
riding chain
robot buoy
rotary vane compressor
round-nose tool
runway floodlight
saccharometry
Seyhan Nehri
skim ice
sleezy
soil atmospher
split off from sb
stream control
structural representation
telemetry strain indicator
third generation engine
unboundedness
undusting
unit of luminous intensity
vapor-phase treatment
veillenella
vendange
whole heart failure
wind harp
Zapata, Emiliano
Zaqqum