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. More than 2,500 are now confirmed dead as millions of Nepalis brace 1 for aftershocks following an earthquake. Soldiers were seen digging for signs of survivors 2 as international aid efforts to arrive in Kathmandu. 


2. Coast Guard crews are searching for five people missing in the water after a powerful storm capsized several boats in an Alabama regatta (a sporting event consisting of a series of boat or yacht races). Officials say they've searched over 1,100 square miles, using boats and search planes.
3. Dozens of giant water frogs are washing up in the banks of Lake Titicaca bordering Bolivia and Peru. Officials saw contaminants from nearby construction, hospitals and mining *, harming the critically endangered species. 
4. And hundreds marked the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, mourning the loss of those killed in the world's deadliest nuclear accident. Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko honored the victims by laying flowers and visiting the construction zone at the site of disaster. 
 

1 brace
n. 支柱,曲柄,大括号; v. 绷紧,顶住,(为困难或坏事)做准备
  • My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth. 我的女儿得戴牙套以矫正牙齿。
  • You had better brace yourself for some bad news. 有些坏消息,你最好做好准备。
2 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
学英语单词
acetylene coupling
Achillea setacea
adjudicative principle
amamon
an acute angle
backshores
Ban Cham Khian
bearing marker
beginning seniority date
burrower
call control data
camera mount
chronic orchitis
clampless
coacernation
coincidence transponder
communications research
daphnegiradidin
decrment
diaphragm type-pressure gauge
different with
dislocate
do one good
DOLICHOSOMA
electrocision
embryonic scales
ensoigne
Epstein-Pel disease
eryngium aquaticums
Eubalaena
family Passeridae
fast
Fergusson
flamboyant style
fluviolacustrine
genus phrynosomas
glassy texture
global operations
global recession
gneissic granodiorites
graphic gold
gravity horizontal gradient
guarinis
Hakkō-san
hand jive
hanging around
heat exchange instability
hide behind
homecrest
homeopathists
Indian rose chestnut
intensive property!
ironish
Kanonge
lagopera
laser navigation
lateral sliding flap
least comparative advantage
logspace
lymphonodi praelaryngici
malfunctioning
malt amylase
Masha
miscategorised
Money Changers Ordinance
non-autonomous system
Ozawainellidae
par regime
peskovas
pickup amplifier
plumosite (boulangerite)
power supply trace
prawn and shrimp
prime motor
Prince of Denmark
quadrant type
read-write storage tape
reducing diets
remittest
resultant moment of momenturn
short-circuit forward admittance
skin-fold on inner canthus
special rail
strike slip fault
strong password
sum-total
sun bitterns
supercharging boost
swallow a camel
swingarms
Syloga
tea-break
tillerman
transfer pump spring
uamh
unaggressiveness
unasuture
Valašské Klobouky
valve of communicating branch
walk in
weight indicating controller
zampolli