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


英语课

 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
a plan of operations
adaptive radiations
allepithema microstriatum
Amitayus
atomic absorption spectrochemical analysis
attitude-gyro
be burned out
belyy kolodez
boiler composition
bon-ton
bradypnoea
bumps in the road
business tariff
C polysaccharides
Canadian Labour Congress
caryophllene
cephalopathy
chlorophyllinite
comfort current
converging tree
corporatist
cylinder bottom gasket
daily recommended dose
darrick
diagnosticability
diala polymorpha
discount retailer
diversity spacing
doll in national costumes
EbHF
embothrium coccineums
endothelialization
entomological neurobiology
event causality observations
excited doublet
fibrosis proliferative
fiexor point
genus macleayas
heterodyne modulation
high brightness stationary cine projector
imbriferous
intracolonic
khalats
Kussmaul-Landry paralysis
lagged
lexicography
loyalty card program
manseau
mechanical snow plow
mendiant
metallic membrane
military allocations
molded draft
multilateral system of settlements
n-bit word
nitrocarbons
oec
ossa tarsi
paints a picture
panic equipment
parenthesized notation
parlatoria fluggeae
patent digest
pile-planking
precoat film
prevailingness
priest-shire
pro-ams
pure car carrier (pcc)
quasi-elastic force
reconstituters
redic
restaurer
ring sparger
Rot am See
rumbles on
schering capacitance bridge
second order leveling
self-impinging injector
Senftenberg
shardeen
shoshonis
steering engine
subpetrosal sinuses
suciu
take after someone
take-off weight(tow)
target-group
teleprompterless
trigorin
unblockable
unconfessed
vabras
virginia mallows
Wake Island Air Force Base
wefald
wheelsmen
Widdrol
wolframium oxide
Wolvega
XIC (transmission interface converter)