时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:初学者听力文摘精选


英语课

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake was a deadly earthquake, and occurred on May 12, 2008, killing 1 an estimated 68,000 people. The earthquake was also felt in nearby countries and as far away as both Beijing and Shanghai where office buildings swayed with the tremor 2. It was the deadliest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. It is the 21st deadliest earthquake of all time. Strong aftershocks, some exceeding magnitude 6, continued to hit the area even after the main quake, causing new casualties and damage. The central government announced that it would spend 1 trillion yuan over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged 3 by the earthquake.



2008年四川汶川地震是一次致命性的地震,发生在2008年5月12日,造成大约68000人死亡。在附近地区以及北京和上海都有震感,那里的写字楼有摇晃。这是自1976年唐山大地震以来对中国最致命的地震,也是21世纪最严重的地震。一些超过6级的强烈的余震,在主震之后继续重创此地,造成新的伤亡和损失。中央政府宣布在未来三年斥资1万亿元来重建这片被地震蹂躏的地区。



1 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 tremor
n.震动,颤动,战栗,兴奋,地震
  • There was a slight tremor in his voice.他的声音有点颤抖。
  • A slight earth tremor was felt in California.加利福尼亚发生了轻微的地震。
3 ravaged
毁坏( ravage的过去式和过去分词 ); 蹂躏; 劫掠; 抢劫
  • a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
  • The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。
学英语单词
abjecter
advocacy advertising
aircraft controller
alkyl hydrosulfate
Alpha Orionis
antiscales
armillarivin
auxiliary headlamp
beat a retreat
candicans
capitals of tunisia
caranx ferdau
cocycle matroid
colo(u)r fastness to decatizing
comply in public but oppose in private
continuous chance variables
cost accountants
cryogenic rocket engine
crystallization rate
da da
detransformations
doppelquartett
dotcom bubble
dysbiosis
Dörverden
English Channel
esoterisms
estuarines
euploea tulliolus koxinga
fibre defect
fibre surface
filedata
formation of vacancies
functional diagramming
get onto the band wagon
Good news goes on crutches
Grainet
heat treating fault
high altitude ir sensor system (haiss)
Hosororo
inlimine
input line filter
instrument polarization
iron family
Johnston's Point
kachur
Kulyumbe
leangle
lence
lens sutures
litu
Llangybi
matrix equation
maximum fan-out
Midlothian County
mini rugby
national strength
not-so-smart
oil mist detector
paleodicot
permeable soil subgrade
perruque
peyssonnelia caulifera
photoelectric traverse
pitch dark
powder vessel
practice test
Propylthiou
protonibea diacantha
rated transformation ratio of a voltage transformer
recompression curve
refrigeration controller
revictimize
route selection system
safeholds
schirm
self programing computer
semisinusoidal
simple mindedness
sliding-jack
small bitts
strappadoes
stretchedness
stub tenon
stuff oneself
sulphobenzoate
Sun Prairie
super-reaction
tamolarizine
think-aloud protocols
thorough brace
transmission first and reverse speed gear
trunnion pipe
Ulug-Khemskiy Rayon
uncrudded
Venusian ionospheric sheath
viridibufagin
VX
wantrust
Zennit
zepto-moles
zestfulnesses