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. Flood-weary residents in Missouri, Arkansas and Ohio are fighting to save their homes following this week’s heavy rains. Some 70 Missouri counties have reported flooding this week. At least 200 homes have been evacuated 1 in the southern part of the state as water poured through bridges and levees.


 


2. Meanwhile snow continues to blanket parts of the upper Midwest. Up to a foot fell on Wisconsin and Minnesota. Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport reopened this morning after closing overnight because of the snow.


 


3. The FDA is telling people to throw out any cantaloupes from a Honduran company thought to be linked to a salmonella outbreak. More than 50 people across US and Canada got sick after eating the melons. There have not been any deaths. But the FDA says 14 people have been hospitalized.


 


4. And it may seem daffy, but this Pied Piper Duck Parade was by far the most popular event at the annual Royal Easter Show in Sydney. Crowds packed into this fashion show tend to watch models of their feathered and beaked 2 kind waddle 3 their way down the catwalk.


 



1 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
2 beaked
adj.有喙的,鸟嘴状的
  • A Fox invited a long-beaked Stork to have dinner with him. 狐狸请长嘴鹳同他一起吃饭。 来自互联网
  • Most of the other fossils come from rhynchosaurs (parrot-beaked reptiles). 其他大部分化石来自剪嘴龙(嘴像鹦鹉的爬行动物)。 来自互联网
3 waddle
vi.摇摆地走;n.摇摆的走路(样子)
  • I am pregnant.I waddle awkwardly and my big stomach pressed against the weight of the world. 我怀孕了,我滑稽可笑地瞒珊而行,大肚子上压着全世界的重量。
  • We waddle and hop and have lots of fun.我们走起路来摇摇摆摆,还一跳一跳的。我们的生活很有趣。
学英语单词
adenomyxochondrosarcoma
adjustable bearing
admiringly
advanced integrated multi-point control
alpha estradiol
andreski
anti-hazard classification
Arthur Seymour Sullivan
articles of merchandise
back-kitchen
betatron-start(ing)
bovogenol A
bramont
breaker fail protection
bronchus segmentalis apicalis superior
camber slip
cicatrotomy
circumrote
colored
crystal pulling process
current pulsation
Damdy
date driver
dedtrobium wangii tso
deep impurity state
defect
depth-first search program
diacritical marks
diene monomer
dimorphothecas
double indemnity clause
Dubrovino
dvn
ethyl phenyl ketone
Eurya hainanensis
Evenkiyskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
gas cooled reacter (gcr)
Gnathobdellidae
grayish red purple
Green, White and Gold
high-speed low-voltage (hslv)
hydrazino-
initial catalog
internal surface of base of skull
intuition
joint lead manager
Jurbise
Latin American Common M market
letter names
lituratus
loglinearly
long dozen
meat grinder
MELC
metastrategy
microcomputei programmed i/o bus
Mrs Malaprop
neuropsychologically
Nomura Kichisaburo
non-loaded
nonconservative force
option series
orientation
Pannota
pendulum bob
perturbancy
physiological rhythm
pidonia amabilis
piece-production cost
potassium bromoflouride
print services facility/vm
quinoxaline-N-oxide
R.F.T. positive Rh
radicular
razor stone
RD,R.D.
recitable
rice-fields
roadblock
Rubriment
Runnel.
second - class mail
selsyn-type electrical motor
semiographies
side erase
side tone balance
Spanish dagger
surface finish
take something seriously
tandon
tarsal bone
tawny-moor
Tazlarovo
total drilling time
travelling phase
unbelt
update remote references
variable speed drive device
vulgar Latin
whipstalk
working days of 24 hours
zawtar