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
abundaries
active four terminal network
anterior inferior cerbellar artery
autistic personality
bachelor of commerce
baggage train
ball mill reactor
bearing height
blow-gun
bulbine
burden of instrument transformer
chrysoviruses
clogging of rollers or screens
codominant species
conformable contact
conical roof
constant ambient temperature
cuscamidine
cytostomal
Danny La Rue
deionized
diaphysectomy
diastereoisomerizations
dicoceus
dincerler
dip coats
Djangoa
e-mail postage
excalcarate
fixing agents
free-center-type clamp
fucoidan
genetic homoeostasis
genus Giraffa
glimpsable
go against the stomach
hash indexing
have charge to
helium neon laser
Hermansky
high energy fission
Hilbert matrix
homothetic figures
horizontal diamond boring machine
human faces
hypertriglyceridaemias
ilarviruses
ilns
image analysis system
in one's pelt
Kiprino
kurowskis
labors
leptodontous
locklin
lpg solenoid valve
luxated
masulas
micromanagement
milliohmmeter
motor cab
MTRS (magnetic tape record start)
navesink
noerc
orosz
osculating epoch
parieto-vaginal muscles
plant colouring matters
pressure skin
primary vitamin
pulses modulation
re-nominate
scintiangiography
seconded officer
self-recording high-speed instrument
semidiurnal variation
short-stop bath
smooth-leaved elm
sociogerontology
sonn
sparkleberries
stagelike
structured approach
sub-reflector
suboculars
subway type transformer
superintendings
suspensely
tabacinus
target-speed responder
team decision theory
three-way bulb
tilting method
Tinospora Miers.
try sb's patience
tuberosis cutis pruriginosa
verbascum mullein
vibix
warran
wellhead platform (whp)
woodfree printing paper
Yekaterinovka