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-road
ActiveX component
alger hiss
anthropogenesis
argil
asdex
autoheading for minimum thrust
barrel tumbler
beits
bellgenerator
bladed wheel
bromometrictitration
bubble shift register
canner end
clpd
container yard capacity
cut-off works
cyclotia
Cytoplasme
depth of throat
dickflesh
dispersed adhesive
effective strain
employment ad
en dedans
ephraimson
family mycobacteriaceaes
fatoushes
fifty-cent piece
flight-weights
flouncer
follow - up service
for the day
foreign currency bill sold
four - poster bed
g?-protein
gambert
gape worm
gatter
graphanesthesia
greyhound
hair growth
hierarchical interrupt
hydraulic retention times
imperfectums
indian grackles
inferior laryngeal vein
ionic gel
joint inspection boat
lay up
laying-up basin
level of care
limaite
lund
Mariga, R.
measuring mechanism
method of symmetrical coordinates
millennium ecosystem assessment
monthly
Moose River
motor driven slush pump
nodi cordis
oil prevention
on the skew
outreal
pale cell acanthoma
personal development system
peverell
planishing roll
plasma progressive casting
prodigalise
putty-clay theory of investment
Raistakka
rambure
Reginald Carey Harrison
registered security
right-halves
rubdown
Rubus ichangensis
safari-suit
scramble dinner
second derivative potentiometric titration
Setsuri-gawa
simowski
skunkbrush
steatopygias
submarine batteries
SWS (service water system)
Tarenna polysperma
testing center
thickness-gauge
three-legs type core
to be warm
truthers
tv-column
undeveloped property
upsetting couple
useful inflow
variable indicant
vext
walk to
Woolacombe