时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2011年(四)月


英语课

…talk tornadoes 1. Watch this time-lapsed look at one funnel 2 cloud slamming into downtown Raleigh. Wow. It's one of the many reasons for the state of emergency, in effect right now in North Carolina. Statewide, more than 20 people were killed. Nearly half of them in one small community.


Taking a look at stories making across the country. A small Tennessee community is offering $25,000 for a tip that leads police to a 20-year-old nursing student. Authorities believe someone kidnapped Holly 3 Bobo from her home last week. Her brother says he saw a man wearing camouflage 4 leading her into the woods. Church members in the area had a special service yesterday.  Pray for Bobo’s safe return. A church in Bertie County, North Carolina was forced to hold services outside on Sunday. This is the community that tornados 5 devastated 6 over the weekend. 11 were killed.


And former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan is weighing on the budget debate. He says the Bush era’s tax cuts should be allowed to expire.


Match.com says it will begin screening users against the national sex offender 7 database. It comes after a Californian woman identified as Jane Doe filed a lawsuit 8 against the company saying she’d been raped 9 by someone she met on the site.


Near Long Island in New York divers 10 have backed in the water today, searching for more bodies, as the investigation 11 into possible serial 12 killings 13 continues. So far investigators 14 have found the remains 15 of, at least 8 women nearby. 4 have been identified.


In Idaho, rescue workers are digging through rocky soil, trying to reach a miner trapped at the bottom of a mine underground. It’s been ongoing 16 communication with the trapped miner, called underground in the appropriate named, “Lucky Friday Mine”.


We are following new developments this morning in the battle for Libya. Mummuar Gaddafi’s troops have intensified 17 their shelling of Misrata, as they tried to recapture the rebel city. And opposition 18 source tells CNN that at least 21 people were killed just yesterday, and the bullets and motors make no concession 19 for age. The humanitarian 20 group, Younes, says dozens of children have died there.



1 tornadoes
n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
  • Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
  • Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网
2 funnel
n.漏斗;烟囱;v.汇集
  • He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.他用一个漏斗把汽油灌入汽车。
  • I like the ship with a yellow funnel.我喜欢那条有黄烟囱的船。
3 holly
n.[植]冬青属灌木
  • I recently acquired some wood from a holly tree.最近我从一棵冬青树上弄了些木料。
  • People often decorate their houses with holly at Christmas.人们总是在圣诞节时用冬青来装饰房屋。
4 camouflage
n./v.掩饰,伪装
  • The white fur of the polar bear is a natural camouflage.北极熊身上的白色的浓密软毛是一种天然的伪装。
  • The animal's markings provide effective camouflage.这种动物身上的斑纹是很有效的伪装。
5 tornados
n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
  • And the national weather service reports several tornados touch down. 国家气象中心报告预测龙卷风将来袭。 来自互联网
  • They had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes. 他们存有关于闪电、龙卷风和飓风的电影胶片。 来自互联网
6 devastated
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的
  • The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
  • His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
7 offender
n.冒犯者,违反者,犯罪者
  • They all sued out a pardon for an offender.他们请求法院赦免一名罪犯。
  • The authorities often know that sex offenders will attack again when they are released.当局一般都知道性犯罪者在获释后往往会再次犯案。
8 lawsuit
n.诉讼,控诉
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
9 raped
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 );强奸
  • A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
  • We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致,不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句
10 divers
adj.不同的;种种的
  • He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人,要他们和他作伴。
  • Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作,同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。
11 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
12 serial
n.连本影片,连本电视节目;adj.连续的
  • A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
  • Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗?
13 killings
谋杀( killing的名词复数 ); 突然发大财,暴发
  • His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
  • The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
14 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
15 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
16 ongoing
adj.进行中的,前进的
  • The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
  • The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
17 intensified
v.(使)增强, (使)加剧( intensify的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
  • The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
18 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
19 concession
n.让步,妥协;特许(权)
  • We can not make heavy concession to the matter.我们在这个问题上不能过于让步。
  • That is a great concession.这是很大的让步。
20 humanitarian
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
学英语单词
a small bundle of stipules
acetate dye
adouetine
arabis
argument-quality
armfuls
Baillarger's layer
bear out
benzohydroxamic
brain-teaser
Bruton
cellular glass ceramics
central sheath
cheshire printers
ciliary action
clerc
cogroups
colocynthein
colosso
cora pavonia e. fries
curved jet
Decrypt.
deposed
dihydromurexine
disenabling
dynamic bending modulus
egoist
ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer
executable symbol
Filaria extra-ocularis
fireworks and crackers
galcatin
Gibbs-Donnan equilibrium
going, going, gone!
gunner's slit
hands-downs
hang in for someone
hasche process
heartquakes
heddur
hillstream
holyroodhouses
host resident software
Icosandia
incompressible boundary layer
incrusting solids
intikhabs
irrotional
isobutyl mercaptan
locutoria
low-pressure vacuum pump
meteorium cucullatum
mineral-lard oil
minus lap
monickers
multiparty call
myelination
negligent damage
normal control wire
orbit period
p.f.i.
Parkesine
pen-ups
photo-laparoscope
polar response curve
praunces
propagation ground
put the cat among the pigeons
quadridentate ligand
queriers
radiation ageing
rasp palms
regressive dissimilation
road transport of goods
RTCA
scale off
Shatalovo
sleepshirt
spoon-drift
Starch-grains
Subrogation of Maritime Lien
sulphocarbonate
surnia ululas
Swietenia mahagoni
target cross section
tarses
thorstein bunde veblens
three state of matter
time-varying load
tombusvirus
tomorrow night
transductor controller
trucking cost
true up
typhlectasia
umbrinas
undisbanded
urovison
wander
wave front steepness
white noise limiting circuit
work file