时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年11月


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AZUZ: The torch has been lit. In Olympia, Greece, the site of the ancient Olympic Games. It was rainy yesterday, so, the flame-lighting ceremony couldn't take place the old fashioned way, in which a mirror is used to reflect the sun's rays unto the torch. The backup flame from the rehearsal 1 was used but it did the trick.


The torch will be carried throughout Greece. It will arrive in South Korea on November 1st and start its tour there 100 days before the Winter Olympics begin in Pyeongchang.


The city is located 50 miles from the nation's border with North Korea and Olympic officials don't know yet whether the communist country will participate in the 2018 Winter Games. North Korea boycotted 2 the Summer Games when they were held in its southern neighbor 30 years ago. But some South Korean officials are hopeful that sports can bring the two rivals together.


CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNNWORLD SPORT: In four months time, thousands of athletes will descend 3 on Pyeongchang in South Korea for the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics.


It will mark another sporting milestone 4 for a country with a long history of hosting major sporting events, which began in the summer of '88.


Emboldened 5 by the success of the Seoul Olympic Games, South Korea soon afterwards won the bid to host the football World Cup in 2002, alongside 6 Japan.



1 rehearsal
n.排练,排演;练习
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
  • You can sharpen your skills with rehearsal.排练可以让技巧更加纯熟。
2 boycotted
抵制,拒绝参加( boycott的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Athletes from several countries boycotted the Olympic Games. 有好几国的运动员抵制奥林匹克运动会。
  • The opposition party earlier boycotted the Diet agenda, demanding Miyaji's resignation. 反对党曾杯葛国会议程,要宫路下台。
3 descend
vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降
  • I hope the grace of God would descend on me.我期望上帝的恩惠。
  • We're not going to descend to such methods.我们不会沦落到使用这种手段。
4 milestone
n.里程碑;划时代的事件
  • The film proved to be a milestone in the history of cinema.事实证明这部影片是电影史上的一个里程碑。
  • I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。
5 emboldened
v.鼓励,使有胆量( embolden的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Emboldened by the wine, he went over to introduce himself to her. 他借酒壮胆,走上前去向她作自我介绍。
  • His success emboldened him to expand his business. 他有了成就因而激发他进一步扩展业务。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 alongside
adv.在旁边;prep.和...在一起,在...旁边
  • There was a butcher's shop alongside the theatre.剧院旁边有一家肉店。
  • Alongside of him stood his uncle.他的身旁站着他叔叔。
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adverse yaw
amotivation
antenna impedance match
areotic
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buying and selling of debts
buzz over
carrier load control
cartridge-actuated initiator
Ceramic Pin Grid Array
chain winch
cinnamtannin
clankiest
cludgies
Clytie knot
columnae rectales
common-midpoint shooting
communications industry
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contract electronics manufacturing
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crural sarcoma
cycleaneonine
cylindrical specimen
Decca chain
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edgie
effective flow parameter
elecs
electrochemical dissolved oxygen recorder
electromagnetic-type microphone
facular area
favershams
fission products poisoning predictor
forest guard
fusion frequency
gas engine power plant
geules
Glucoboy
guidance note
hatchway
hive mind
hotfooting
in the employ of
Information Commissioner's Office
inquirent
Kviteseid
lateral malleolus rete
levity
lifetime employment
livener
loppel
machinecleaning
microsubroutine
minisurvey
monopolises
needle root
non-conventional observation
non-leak detector
nonreset
officialisation
oleum aurantii
open an attack
orthopterous insect
pastoral organ point
patricians
pazos
phenoxyacid
pleurobranchs
polynomial modulation
price-lists
proportioning burner
proton-proton chain in stars
rectilinear motion assumption
red-lipped
reduction agent
restedness
rosine
ructation
russia embroidery
Ruwābah
sal volatable
samfie
sanger's method
security paper
seiospore
semi-cardinal points
sor-el
sprouted up
stearo myristo-laurin
summerings
take sb. at his words
telescience
Unhǔng-gun
untility control console
vibrator point
vinylsulfonic acid
western dewberry
westmorlands
wue
yehezkel