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
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abel transform
arrangement in ascending power
atresia of os uteri
basophil-
Batidrol
beijingers
besped
blue-rinse
breve
calender sizing
candidiases
cholesterol ester deficiency
color-keyed
Communication and Networking Riser
condensing process
conjunctivae
control voltage
damping transformer
de-alcoholize
dehooked
demythologisations
dendrophilia
determine against
dimethyl-benzanthracene
Dociton
dod (direct wutward dialing)
drive safely
Drypack
EBacc
erotic plasticity
ezomycin
fine material
flike
forging and rolling
frost box
gentianopsis holopetalas
genus balanuss
Goto-retto
Hatta
hedge-cutter
heightmap
helicidaes
Holly Springs
homoiosmotic animal
hypertrophic cardiomyopathies
ircas
jettisonable tank
jointed charlocks
Kurosh
ladle casing
lithium orthophosphate
local air conditioning
manuipulation
marketing dollar
Masaya, L.de
Menlough
Moshny
mujica
multifariousnesses
multiple inhibition analysis
no-fines concrete
nonquota circulating fund
nonreturn to zero signalling (nrz)
normal tongue manifestation
obverts
on - job training
optimistic estimate
order close-out miscellaneous purge
pars occipitalis capsulae internae
pericardial wall
phagocytoses
philly-willy
polar attachment
pronounceable
quarg
racal
real time interferometry
retrograde urography
reverse spring
roentgen per hour at one meter
round nose
Sergeyevka
social rights
Sopwith staff
splenoportograpthy
Sunil
swallow her pride
system of coplanar forces
temper rolling
total volume of goods
transverse profile of wormwheel
trema orientalis (l.)bl.
Tromsφ
Trékyllisheidhi
twin drift
uk scheme
unbalanced tree
undergo ... trial
up-all-night
voice-frequency-multichannel system
wet dust collector
wheel press