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
about right
aerophagies
alaglossa
anti - smoking campaign
antipathised
atmospheric visibility
automatic exposure mode
auxiliary input output statement
bill of peace
blade noise
blamers
blat
blood stone
boiling point index
bosselated
bound paraffin chains
capacitive dischage
capital owner
carbocyclic compound
carcinogensis
Challakere
Chambeshi River
checked edge
Chimishliya
Clintonization
cortemilia
de-humanise
defaulture
delisting
DioromvitaminB13
duckburgers
duplexite
ecn
equivalent particle diameter
extra surplus value
fee of promision commitment charges
floating-point unit
forsterite ophicalcite
fully fluorinated paraffin
galactic year
grown-up
gummed number
hands threes (hands fours etc. )
helospectin
history of botanical science
hudibrastics
Hüttau
i-schake
Jozabad
Katrin
kow
kueppers
kwantung
lactated Ringer solution
lampadomancy
leptospiremia
load-shedding
lockins
lubricating gun adapter
mercurous choride
metropolitan city
money talks, bullshit walks
multi dimensional space
multichannel multiplexing
naphthe
nonsleeping
nourishing lung and stomach
Ochromonadaceae
omnitude
over-stimulation
Pahari
papillary-marginal-attached
partial trial of brake
passings-out
peripheral-tissue
phorticella fenestrata
pivotted bucket conveyor
plows into
prao
principle of debit and credit
proacted
quad-band
Radical Civic Union
reading report
recomposes
resonance loop
Santa Ana winds
Securinan-11-Dne
spold
supernumerary kinetosome
thermistor oscillator
traction electric machine
transmit mode
tsvi
twista
two and two rib stitch
unbehoving
underground biology
Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von
whole-body counter
Yūbari-sanchi
zoloperone