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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adnephrin
Aeolis Mons
amp.out
anteroom
arithmetic data attributes
bentkowskis
berial
Butsu
canaling
cementing surface
centred optical system
Channel Uniformity
chiren
chlorpheniramins
chucking away
claesson
classified contract
Cobalin
codrescu
coecomycin
combinatorial product
comisiones
cottet
Craigville
credit review process
crinum abyssinicum hochst
day game
deelie
direct-view TV
double consciousness
equivalent statement
exceptional spaces
extended semantic network
facility and equipment
fan heating
fivestar
format rule
forthshows
free movement of vessel on supports
fucoids
funnily enough
Gaibandha District
give an eye to
high polymer waterproof materials
hinged cover
in less than a pig's whisper
institution of quantity surveyors iqs
Ivanishvili
juniper berry
Karl Gjellerup
Kirkist
klimov
kremlins
La Jagua
legal reasoning
lion-piece
live camera
LNAs
measuring off
MLRC
moisture-vapor
mounted elastically
movable assembly on production line
multiple track bridge
neutral refractory brick
nonpassengers
oligolepis acutipennis
orbital launching
over-hauling
palpifer hopponis
pest monitoring
piercing machine
planar double-enveloping wormwheel
plasma-activated
point of honour
present use
Principle of Liability Without Fault
Progress indicator
puckfists
pudendocaudal plexus
rectal ampullas
relitigate
riordan
sadeghi
shock metamorphism
single frequency signal generator
SMA12/60
Software.
special dietary product
Stenshuvud
Strathkelvin District
synthetic fibre for wadding
system standard tailer label
systs
tenemycin
trans-erasure
transsexualities
twist wrapping machine
volutations
xenogenous siderosis
zinc undecylenate
Zutphen