时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2015(四)月


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 1. Well over 3,000 people are known dead after the massive earthquake that hit Nepal over the weekend. Tens of thousands are sleeping outdoors out of fear that aftershocks could knock down even more buildings. 


2. The trial of accused theater shooter James Holmes began in Denver Monday. Holmes has acknowledged killing 1 12 people and wounding 70. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity 2
3. The funeral of Freddie Gray is scheduled for Monday in Baltimore. Gray is the 25-year-old black man who died a week after encounter with police left him with severe spinal 3 injury. 
4. And the search continues for more survivors 4 or victims after a 7 storm hit Mobile Bay, Alabama during a sailing competition on Saturday. Several sailboats capsized and at least 2 people are known dead. 

1 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。
2 insanity
n.疯狂,精神错乱;极端的愚蠢,荒唐
  • In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.他伪称一时精神错乱,为自己辩解。
  • He remained in his cell,and this visit only increased the belief in his insanity.他依旧还是住在他的地牢里,这次视察只是更加使人相信他是个疯子了。
3 spinal
adj.针的,尖刺的,尖刺状突起的;adj.脊骨的,脊髓的
  • After three days in Japan,the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.在日本三天,就已经使脊椎骨变得富有弹性了。
  • Your spinal column is made up of 24 movable vertebrae.你的脊柱由24个活动的脊椎骨构成。
4 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
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actual array
Ahohite
air-cooled slag
amino glutaric acid
ANTI-HAA
antidiagonal sequence
apios taiwanianus
Asian Industrial Development Council
be famous for
bilboquets
Brook's inductometer
bureau budget
bus services
Chalfont
Cochlearia officinalis
Corydalis leucanthema
decanormal solution
delphinion
double ionization chamber
earthstars
electroscalpel
Eledone
entomopox virus
environmental hypoxia
explicit relation
fatsuits
feeper
felt gasket
fields of fire
fieldstripped
fine texture
flexible shaft type vibrator
Fourier's 2nd law
freezing depth
gelatins
genus Rubus
geographic(al) base map
George Hubert Wilkins
government guaranteed bond
hepatodidymus
housing loan corporation
ingen
intramercurial
Intrasporangiaceae
karatist
lawrensons
Livaditis procedure
matrix management
Mbini
mistransliterates
mother abscess
multilingual word processor
multiple intelligence
navigation lane
neo-lamarckians
non-communist
nondextrinoid
nonrepeatable
nuclear fusion blanket
number of neutrons per fission
nutrasweet
operating surplus
over-deaved
pack something in
paleomagnetists
partition descriptor
percent transmittancy
phosgenes
polarisable
prestandard
prezoning
principalities
publicity hound
quasi homogeneous reactor
Ranil
recessus pro utriculo
retirement benefit
rock bit for water well drilling rig
Rock-a-bye, Baby
self-balancing bridge
sieve selection hypothesis
slipper tank
spark energy
split-pole rotary converter
spontaneous decomposition
steanes
steering instruction
strabismic
suicide bombing
suppresser gene
supracoracoid foramen
throw a scare
tidely
ultrasonic echogram
underconforming
unencumbered balance of allotment
upper sidewall
Urgut
usb driver
varistors
you've got me there
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