时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2014(十)月


英语课

 1. The 2nd student is dead following Friday’s deadly school shooting in north of Seattle. Officials say 14-year-old Gio Soriano died from her injuries. Three other students remain hospitalized. Two of them are in critical condition.


 
2. The governors of New York and New Jersey 1 are clarifying their positions on quarantines for medical workers returning home from treating Ebola patients in West Africa. Governor Andrew Cuomo and Governor Christ Christie say their policies permit 21-day home confinement 2 for those workers as long as they aren’t showing any symptoms of the disease.
 
3. Dozens of residents in a rural area of Hawaii have been told be ready to evacuate 3 as flowing lava 4 from an erupting volcano continues to advance. Authorities say lava flow on the Big Island is moving at the rate about 10 to 15 yards an hour. 
 
4. And Madison Bumgarner tossed the first World Series shutout in 11 years, allowing four hits while striking out 8 in the San Francisco Giants’ 5 to nothing win over Kansas City. The Giants now lead the Royals 3 games to 2 as the series moves back to Kansas City.

1 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。
2 confinement
n.幽禁,拘留,监禁;分娩;限制,局限
  • He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
  • The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。
3 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
4 lava
n.熔岩,火山岩
  • The lava flowed down the sides of the volcano.熔岩沿火山坡面涌流而下。
  • His anger spilled out like lava.他的愤怒像火山爆发似的迸发出来。