时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2016年9月


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Starting with the drought that's been going on. It's not one you might have heard of.


The Atlantic hurricane drought — it's been more than 10 years since a category three or stronger hurricane has made landfall in the Eastern U.S. or on the Gulf 1 Coast. A category three storm is a major one, with wind speeds of more than 110 miles per hour. The current hurricane drought is the longest on record.


But it doesn't mean there haven't been any big Atlantic storms. Hurricane Gaston is currently spinning in the Atlantic. It's just not expected to hit land.


Forecasters say the longer a drought last, the more likely it becomes that a threatening hurricane will form. And right now, the North Atlantic is entering peak season for cyclones 3. The hurricane season itself runs from June 1st to November 30th. Mid 4 to late August is the start of the most active and dangerous time for tropical cyclone 2 activity. That's according to the U.S. government's meteorologists.


There are a couple of systems out at sea that could become a threat in the days ahead. What should you do if you live in an area where a hurricane could come ashore 5?


SUBTITLE 6: Preparing for a hurricane.


JENNIFER GRAY, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You and your family need to be prepared for hurricane way before it makes landfall.


The number one thing you need to do: get your supplies. You need enough nonperishable food items for three days for each person in your family.


You also need one gallon of water per day for each person. Also make sure you have plenty of batteries and a battery operated radio, as well as flashlights.


Chances are during a hurricane, you will lose power. In that case, your cell phone will lose power as well. So, you'll lose all of your contacts.


Make sure you make a list of all the emergency contacts that you'll need.


Also, have an evacuation plan. Know your evacuation route and familiarize yourself with it.


Lastly, get your home ready. If you have hurricane shutters 7, make sure you know where they are and you know how to install them. Also, prune 8 your trees and gather up any loose items that can become projectiles 9 once the winds pick up.



1 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
2 cyclone
n.旋风,龙卷风
  • An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
  • The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
3 cyclones
n.气旋( cyclone的名词复数 );旋风;飓风;暴风
  • The pricipal objective in designing cyclones is to create a vortex. 设计旋风除尘器的主要目的在于造成涡旋运动。 来自辞典例句
  • Middle-latitude cyclones originate at the popar front. 中纬度地区的气旋发源于极锋。 来自辞典例句
4 mid
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
5 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
6 subtitle
n.副题(书本中的),说明对白的字幕
  • His new book has a subtitle.他的新书有一个副标题。
  • Ah!I don't know why they don't subtitle these movies.唉!我不知道这些电影为什么不打字幕。
7 shutters
百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门
  • The shop-front is fitted with rolling shutters. 那商店的店门装有卷门。
  • The shutters thumped the wall in the wind. 在风中百叶窗砰砰地碰在墙上。
8 prune
n.酶干;vt.修剪,砍掉,削减;vi.删除
  • Will you prune away the unnecessary adjectives in the passage?把这段文字中不必要的形容词删去好吗?
  • It is our job to prune the side branches of these trees.我们的工作就是修剪这些树的侧枝。
9 projectiles
n.抛射体( projectile的名词复数 );(炮弹、子弹等)射弹,(火箭等)自动推进的武器
  • These differences are connected with the strong absorption of the composite projectiles. 这些差别与复杂的入射粒子的强烈吸收有关。 来自辞典例句
  • Projectiles became more important because cannons could now fire balls over hundreds or yards. 抛射体变得更加重要,因为人们已能用大炮把炮弹射到几百码的距离之外。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
A lot Much water has gone beneath the bridge since.
adogmatic
AICMFP
ammonia nitrogen
anti-revolutionaries
bursting pain
Calmette's reaction
canisps
catastrophe model
co-operationist
cold jelly fish
contract implied in law
Cooke-Ponder method
coverstocks
cruciate ligaments of toes
cutting plyers
determinable intrest
devil ray
diagram dynamic flow
discontinuous capacitance
electric probing device
end-frame
endocarditis benigna
entom.,entomol.
equipo
excess-3 representation
exothermic paint
experimental port
F and A, f. & a.
Faber polynomials
fruitvale
gibraltars
grass basketry
habiliments
half-wit
heat humidity ratio
hummocked ice
industrial engineerings
infantile schitosomiasis
inferocostal
insecticidal plasticizer
jack-up test
just perceptible difference
ketone hydrate
kgal
Kolbudy Górne
konstantin stanislavskies
korector
lend ... name to
lightsomenesses
locomotive cell
making noise
maladministering
mayor-council form of government
microprogram index register
miles per gallons
mumblety-peg
mycosphaerella artemisiae
Mādhavpur
network fault diagnosis
nuclear (-track) plate
one man
optical analytical instrument
parry arc
Pogostemon dielsianus
poison-arrow frog
port and cargo information study
pot-kilp
preinduced
property entrusted
put some muscle into it
quater centenary
reflection copy
reversal of pole
rhyobasalt
RV (relief valve)
salt-shaker
schooling
scobles
selbergite
shoecase
signal initiator
single-antenna
southern arrowwood
status read
stroke of genius
substrate dopant movement
Sulfirame
sympathetic vasoconstrictor center
tegular arms
test contact
the plains
thermal forming
thinking outside the box
through hole plating
transversocostal
two-level midpoint method
ultraspherical polynomial
underdramatizes
vinology
wanderwords
wind-chill equivalent temperature