时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2015(五)月


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 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。
4 wreck
n.失事,遇难;沉船;vt.(船等)失事,遇难
  • Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
  • No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
5 jersey
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
学英语单词
accretionary structure
addressable horizonal position
adduct
adjustment credit
adonnino
Afrofuturistic
annisa
brices
bur weed fibre
buy the farm
cancelment
Carthaginian
chutney soca
cipher message text transfer set
clitorin
condescender
conversion loss
creep lattice
cucumber green mottle mosaic
daylight ratio
dzasokhov
echo characteristics
electric field strength
electropla
Emlyn
end of word character
eton collars
eupraxia
familyists
fielders' choices
games analysis system
Gianluca Vialli
girllessness
hairweaving
hairy cell
handshield
harmonic continuation
high cistern
in the dirt
inositol phosphate
kaolinic shale
laugh oneself into fits
limiting resolving angle
lithogenicbile
local group
madrassa
magneto optical
mesiobuccoocclusal angle
method of steepest descent
mix-in-place
mopane
news aggregator
nonuniformity
nuciferous
numena
off-center optic-axis figure
overyear regulation
oxyferrite
per say
persar
personal knowledge management
Pisionidae
Povoletto
prebaked
product attributes
pulse-code modulation links
pyruvate dehydrogenase
queer up
receptors
record-collector
republics of san marino
required freight rate
reticular magma
Rhodiola alterna
ribspares
robotrippin'
rotating disk extractor
rotatingswitch
safety stirrup
segmental osteotomy
shipped off
show to the door
source of water pollution
stepwise convergence
tabular cell
tagraggery
Taraxacum scariosum
theory Stiller's
tichina
tpc
trade documentation
tuna melts
uccs
undistempered
uniform syzygy method
vehicle area
veneer of mortar
vlok
water compressibility
wodanite
yourhealth
zero-energy fast reactor