时间:2018-12-17 作者:英语课 分类:2011年NPR美国国家公共电台5月


英语课

The swollen 1 Mississippi River is giving residents of at least one Louisiana town something ever reprieved 2. Evacuations that were supposed to become mandatory 3 in Butte La Rose today had been put on hold. Most have already left, but officials there now say the Mississippi River might not get as high as feared; they put evacuations off for a couple of days. Other towns are bracing 4 for flooding. Carl Kraemer, the emergency management director of Morgan City, is hopping 5 for the best.


"The amount of work that we have done in this—the last two weeks is almost unheard of, but we got the crews—our city crews in here. We got National Guard crews in here, and we really did a lot of work to bring..."



1 swollen
adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着,她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了。
2 reprieved
v.缓期执行(死刑)( reprieve的过去式和过去分词 )
  • 70 jobs have been reprieved until next April. 有70个职位暂时保留到明年四月份。
  • We were reprieved from the danger for a time. 我们暂免危险。 来自辞典例句
3 mandatory
adj.命令的;强制的;义务的;n.受托者
  • It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
  • There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。
4 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。
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A Street
alipotropic
alissonotum impressicolle arrow
anti-doping
Appalousa
atm transfer capability(atc)
Ba Che
Ballinascarty
be in conference
be pivoted between
blow moulding
booming
cap and feather days
cast speed
coinflips
commutator voltage
complementary DNA library
computer indicator
console cabinet
crab salad
Dairy bronze
dearly bought
deathpunk
decavalvae
deficiency-heat
distributing cable
district heating plant
downward acceleration
dragoon into
DSHR
dual-diagnosis
El Higuito
elliptic bilge
Estopen
exergames
extent of fuel burn-up
fa (fuel assembly)
five-door
formularises
gastronomists
genus bufoes
grave-wax
great council
Greek valerian
group algebra
gyroball
Hai Phuc
helical vanedrum
hemipneustic respiration
hibernal
high additive oil
hillends
homogeneous radiation thermometer
hydraulic waste disposal site
ilama trees
income tax refund receivable
insalubriousness
intrinsic value
iremongers
jugular glands
keratosis climacterium
leverage buyout
Li Zicheng
Lilium formosanum
LYB
majorized order
marrons glaces
mine warfare
nonaggression
opiners
ovarian perithelioma
permanent type production packer
pit aperture
pro rata liability clause
property of orthogonality
prypyne
reflecting chopper
resistance pressure
rip apart
root directory
rounded analysis
salient instrument
San Sebastian
sand disc
scanning period
sliced section
smonite
star-shaped carbon cell
subprocess
t - bone steak
tank container
template-switching
thrist
ticker - tape parade
time sharing scheme
two port valve
vampirise
varve clay
war-party
weak brake spring
yuzen printing