美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2015-5-26
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2015(五)月
英语课
1. Residents in Oklahoma and Texas are bracing 1 for another night of rains and floodwaters after 10 inches of rain fell in southern part of Texas overnight, and in Oklahoma, one firefighter swept his death while assisting a rescue.
2. In Nepal, thousands are homeless after a river was damed by a landslide 2. The landslide blocks the river and created a 2.5-mile-long lake behind it. Residents living along the banks were moved to higher ground.
3. Nobel Prize winning mathematician 3 John Nash was killed in a car wreck 4 in New Jersey 5 on Saturday. Nash, whose life was the subject of the movie, A
Beautiful Mind, won the Nobel Prize in 1994 for his work in game theory. He was 86.
4. And the winner of this year's Eurovision Song Contest is Sweden singer Mans Zelmerlow. He beat out strong competition from the Russian *. A little wild audience along with forty judges voted in the competition.
1 bracing
adj.令人振奋的
- The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
- The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。
2 landslide
n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票；一面倒的胜利
- Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
- An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
3 mathematician
n.数学家
- The man with his back to the camera is a mathematician.背对着照相机的人是位数学家。
- The mathematician analyzed his figures again.这位数学家再次分析研究了他的这些数字。