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
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afterburner liner
alocasia
altivolant
aracinovo
arsamine
arthropod bites
aurantiol
ball-and-socket
balloon frame
barrel lapping machine
brabin
bummy
Bunburying
candelero
catch wheel
chain of production
chillproofing
chinese black mushrooms
coffee fungus
concentrated
conocerithium atromarginatum
consecutive point
crankshaft oil hole
Danify
downchange
duplicate gear
dynamic leaching
economy above the plan
ekaterinas
emanation therapy
english foot
enkianthus quinqueflorus lour.
finific
gachet
gentianic acid
gusathion
heavy type winch
herpetarium
hibernacle
Hoff.
induction of
inflow-storage-discharge curve
inscrutive
interarytenoid fissure
Jakob's disease
java-based
jesticular
John Bullish
ladlefor smelting
low-sodium milk
lower chroma sideband
main staircase
make a comparison between
malignanancy
Marahuaca, Cerro
martian packet
metallic lamp holder
microvacuole
minisite
missel thrushes
Mutoko
natural setting
negative plasmolysis place
nightstick
non-essentials
nowche
nuclear weapon accident
onustus exutus
Ooecyan
pass the requirements
peckers
Pitou Township
pseudoazurin
reversing arrangement
rigt zone
rwandas
s interface
safra
screw extrusion press
set the azimuth
shackin'
space translunar
spermatist
stamptax
step-dancing
sterilized pharmaceutics
switchable neutron source
system of statistics
teeing up
tele-rings
Tijuca, L.da
tongolense
transuranium metal
triangulation distance meters
trifluoroethyl vinyl ether
turst
Umm Rujm
unrulableness
v-d
william butler yeatss
work curve
Ygrande