时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年7月


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There was some breaking news last night out of Manchester, United Kingdom. Eyewitnesses 1 said it appeared to be some sort of explosion. It took place at or near an Arianna Grande concert in Manchester Arena 2. British police initially 3 said at least 19 people were killed and that dozens of others, around 50, were injured.


Emergency workers rushed to what was described as a chaotic 4 scene. There were several videos like this that showed people panicking and running.


When we produce this show, there were still more questions than answers, but British officials said they were treating this as a terrorist incident.


You can look for the latest news on it at CNN.com.


Another story we're covering, what's known as the Doomsday Vault 5 has been breached 7.


This is an emergency storage facility for seeds — more than 500 million of them from all around the world. It would allow people to recreate food supplies in case there's some sort of global catastrophe 8. The vault's carved into a side of a mountain Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago about halfway 9 between Norway and the North Pole.


The company that manages the vault says water has gotten in, that it breached the entrance to the vault and sit about 50 feet into part of an access tunnel. The seeds themselves were not harmed.


So, how did this happen?


Regardless of when you're watching this show on Tuesday, the temperature in Svalbard is below freezing. The vault's management company says the breach 6 occurred during an unusually warm and rainy October. They just made it public. Officials are waterproofing 10 the walls inside the tunnel entrance to better protect the vault.



1 eyewitnesses
目击者( eyewitness的名词复数 )
  • The examination of all the eyewitnesses took a week. 对所有证人的质询用了一周的时间。
  • Several eyewitnesses testified that they saw the officers hit Miller in the face. 几位目击证人证明他们看见那几个警官打了米勒的脸。
2 arena
n.竞技场,运动场所;竞争场所,舞台
  • She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
  • He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。
3 initially
adv.最初,开始
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
4 chaotic
adj.混沌的,一片混乱的,一团糟的
  • Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
  • The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。
5 vault
n.拱形圆顶,地窖,地下室
  • The vault of this cathedral is very high.这座天主教堂的拱顶非常高。
  • The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。
6 breach
n.违反,不履行;破裂;vt.冲破,攻破
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
7 breached
攻破( breach的现在分词 ); 破坏,违反
  • These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
  • Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
8 catastrophe
n.大灾难,大祸
  • I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
  • This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。
9 halfway
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
10 waterproofing
v.使防水,使不透水( waterproof的现在分词 )
  • The company will come up with a new technique for waterproofing walls. 该公司将推出防止墙壁渗水的新技术。 来自辞典例句
  • Large scope of heat-resistant, waterproofing and the anti-chemical properties. 耐温范围大,具防水及抗化学性。 来自互联网
学英语单词
a slut
Alliance for Progress
artificial duct
asymptotic slope
beldame
bid-price
bierstekers
blank map
Briss
catheretic
cathodic protection automatically controlled
causeymakers
cet. par.
chilauni
Coffeen Lake
compost grinder
Conia.
cooled-air circulation refrigeration machine
crystal sender
denalis
dibenzyltin dibromide
earth filtering
epoxy-amine resin
financial services sector
Fluvoxaminum
FSBO
fuel-savings
gadolinites
gosther
hard to get
hide your light under a bushel
high-centre
hokiangas
hopper freight car
Humbauville
if push comes to shove
integral ring
isdn digital subscriber line
Kichma
larval molting
lime arsenate
lineshaft
loovesum
m mode ultrasonic scanning
mass extinction coefficient
Mead, Margaret
medullary plate (or neural plate)
metal halide
metauranopilite
microsporosis capitis
My Quang
nonelement
oceanic bonitoes
office of prime minister and cabinet
Olintepeque
outline bar
palaeocon
phellodendron amurenses
piezoelectric driver
pillar crane
plasterable
political agenda
polyp of rectum
polyphenylene sulfide composite
priscillians
pullig
quadrumana
records service firing
rocker keel
roof structure to falls
rotating coupler
Rotava
salsaed
sindony
sisso
sodium metazirconate
speedometer main shaft
squeakless
stereocamera
stiklestad
studio floor
subgalea
subsurface trickle irrigation
superparts
supervacaneousness
television tape
text library
the fine print
the presence or absence of anthocyanin pigments
the sweets and bitters of life
thrust lift nozzle
time trial
unilateral hermaph-roditism
uniprocessor system
unrestless
value number
vertical phasing
vibration regulation law
wastoid
water bone infection
xestia csoevarii
yolk sphere