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。
学英语单词
a man of law
acunt
alternating current machine
analogy method
antiscarlet fever globulin
Apold
assume no risk
audio frequency oscillator
backward combustion
baked core
beam impedance
belgians
Berehomet
blue map
British Standard Institute
buoyage system B
ceredigions
Chinese character output
chlorinating
construction industries
copper tack
counter-craft
deckzelle
deep weathering
duwende
electrical bias
equipartition principle
Erycibe henryi
Ex maleficio non oritur contractus.
f. o. d.
farfan
fault trellis drainage pattern
fly trap
full tinting strength
functional theory of property
gear testing machine
gillman
gotchers
GPRS support node
hair roller
hemocytotripsy
henceforth
heterologous cardiac valve
hot mercerization
image manipulation language
independent side band
indoor humidity
inflation process
ion gauge ion gage
kemenche
Kopacz
late finish time
leaf area indice
line of segregation
low idling speed test
lowest step
macront
Maddalena, I.
marumi (kumquat)
metal armouring
military court
milling chamber
mismanaged
Montrose Hill
multimedia authoring
multiplex yarn
Mutisia viciaefolia
myristica ceylanica cagayanensis
Narragansett
NIM module
non-banking
off-the-ball
opposite numbers
optical path distortion
outlustred
oversensationalize
phenol formaldehyde resin
Phillips L.
phyllokinin
printed circuit block
radar identification
rail trail
reesterify
Rhipsalidopsis
sainzs
sclero-atrophic heriez syndrome
scrimpers
secession
semi manufactured product
square-wave voltage
stage carriage
Streptothrix chromogenes
subject authority file
swamp donkey
temora turbinata
tricycle
turning short round with anchor
ultramicrospectrophotometry
unfilm
ungentlemanny
unmounted
Urtica angustifolia