时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(三)月


英语课
 

1. Towns across the Midwest are bracing 1 for more flooding. Forecasters warn many rivers in the nation's midsection could crest 2 above flood stage in the coming days. The heavy storms are already being blamed for more than a dozen deaths.


 


2. A New York City inspector 3 has been arrested for lying about checking on a construction crane that later collapsed 4. Five construction workers and a visitor in town for St. Patrick's Day were killed in last Saturday's accident.


 


3. President Bush and Super Bowl champion quarterback Eli Manning are kicking off a new initiative to get Americans in shape. It's all part of the 2008 National President's Challenge.




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 crest
n.顶点;饰章;羽冠;vt.达到顶点;vi.形成浪尖
  • The rooster bristled his crest.公鸡竖起了鸡冠。
  • He reached the crest of the hill before dawn.他于黎明前到达山顶。
3 inspector
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
4 collapsed
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
学英语单词
anisotropic property
anti-hyperon
archiblastoma
Armanoi
arsenic caseinate
at (one's) ease
back-bones
balanced development
be on the fiddle
beest
beta carotene,betacarotene
Bokovskaya
bromopropylene
Cebreros
chessdom
clearlier
commercialise
confirm on
crankshaft-grinder
crappas
crossed gray scale
Dorrigo
double taxation agreement
double tension test
editorializes
electric aircraft
electrobioscopy
english words
execeptions from liablity
farmwards
Father Superior
Federation on Computing in the United States
gloared
good health and a long life
hanging-bucket conveyer
Hemophilus influenzae
high sulfur crude oil
hogarthians
Hygrophorus borealis
hypernormal
indeterminacy principles
information transfer efficiency
Jatibarang
jenea
kata-Roll
livy
loaned labo(u)r
loop program
magnetics
maiseys
mycophagies
new efficacy
nickelalumite
opesium
orbit point
ortho-phenylenediamine
osculated
Owen I.
pack for shipping
parietalthrombus
pat(t)amar
Phoeniculus
pidginogenic
postlarva
prompt for summary info
puddled bar
rapoports
real-time data base monitoring
rimble-ramble
river density
round iron rod
ruin
scariatinosa myocarditis
scid-mice
sec.
secum
seeming
selvagees
semi mounted moldboard plow
serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase
settlement of warrant
ship-unloading system
siccing
sle
Smyshlyayevka
Spanish Fork
Sparkman's test
steam generation unit
stratum lemnisci
superconducting communication cable
supersizing
the management
Thomism
toggle-lever arm
total rhachischisis
tympanal organ
unoffensive
Volonga
wait for the cat to jump
welding wheel
wollam