时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2014(三)月


英语课

1. A mudslide Washington State killed at least three people and destroyed as many as thirty homes. 18 people are unaccounted for.


 
2. Officials say a barge 1 that leaked oil into Galveston Bay has been move out of the Houston Ship Channel and all the remaining oil has been taken out. Oil residue 2 has been spotted 3 as far as 12 miles out  into the Gulf 4 of Mexico.
 
3. Actor James Rebhorn has died. The character actor amassed 5 more than 100 credits in five decades of television and film work. Rebhorn was 65. 
 
4. Animal activists 6 in Kosovo say three brown bear cubs 7 have been rescued from captivity 8. The one-month-old cubs were found at two separate homes last week and are believed to be from the same mother.
 

1 barge
n.平底载货船,驳船
  • The barge was loaded up with coal.那艘驳船装上了煤。
  • Carrying goods by train costs nearly three times more than carrying them by barge.通过铁路运货的成本比驳船运货成本高出近3倍。
2 residue
n.残余,剩余,残渣
  • Mary scraped the residue of food from the plates before putting them under water.玛丽在把盘子放入水之前先刮去上面的食物残渣。
  • Pesticide persistence beyond the critical period for control leads to residue problems.农药一旦超过控制的临界期,就会导致残留问题。
3 spotted
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
4 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
5 amassed
v.积累,积聚( amass的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He amassed a fortune from silver mining. 他靠开采银矿积累了一笔财富。
  • They have amassed a fortune in just a few years. 他们在几年的时间里就聚集了一笔财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 cubs
n.幼小的兽,不懂规矩的年轻人( cub的名词复数 )
  • a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
  • Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 captivity
n.囚禁;被俘;束缚
  • A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
  • He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。
学英语单词
active-area
Amakusa-Shimo-shima
Amd.
Androsace rigida
ant-bears
appropriate to
arbor.
asterolecanium machili
astronomic parallel
atyrau (guryev)
bagatelle
Banneker, Benjamin
beyond sb's tehter
boomhauer
Bragg diffraction
brick facing
bromohyperhidrosis
caterpillar treads
cfat
Chloramoebaceae
computer-phobia
continentalise
cotidal
cross inn
curved buttress dam
decomps
difiore
disk backup
dislocation multiplication
Drypetes salicifolia
Efficient diversification
EI characteristic
elmaz
euproctis postfusca
fanconi-albertini-zellweger(syndrome)
field loop jumper
Fournier's treatment
fuel pit backwash water
genve
gig conveyer
graduate training scheme
gratification deprivation
Ichiki
industrial production
isotopic concentration
karling
law of lights
law of trichotomy
long path emitter
Masaya, L.de
measuring operation
Meknès, Prov.de
Meneng Dist.
miskitu
miss the target
Monkey Bay
Mordovian
NATO Joint Communications-Electronics Committee
Nīleh
occipital anchorage
octave band pressure level
oikiomania
omoo
one time and another
patchett
Physocarpus
pig heaven
Pompiloidea
post-trematic artery
profit before tax
pythium elongatum
Quinault L.
rate of capital return
ruckelshaus
safe-harbor
scale level
sedenes
self oiling
sequence file
shock wave interference
shortsyne
sigill
single-vehicle
skewerings
slice of array
snaring
spilliness
stembridge
strategic attack bombing
superior orbitals
surface board
swiss guards
sypers
That's all she wrote.
tremidine
tromping
type, instruction
U-Zr alloy
uncontrolled fashion
vanadium trichloride
wet gas
withhold business