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
acrocephalus agricola
after - school activities
after shock
Alfred Alistair Cooke
alveolar gas exchange
anatrichus pygmaeus
antimony oxysulfide
antiscirrhous
antitruncations
arboresce
average actual
be permeable to
beadily
birdshop
Carpinus shensiensis
cart-wheel pattern
clutch shifter shaft
COBSI
commuterville
coordinate instrumentation
court of appeals
cPCI
depth control(l)er
dictabelt
direct participant
disc finishing machine
dust-disease spirocomputer
earth-horn
eczema infantum
electrical reset
fin length
fixator muscle
flight attitude
float type densitometer
foreman-ship
furrow pick
generalized epilepsies
glochidion ovalifolium
granted patent
Hommersum
hypervariable minisatellite
in bag
ingula cerebelli
ladette
lawfully-begotten
lepra cutanea
lesbic
lig. sternoclaviculare
maximum bit rate
microexplosion
micromolecules
normal temperature-pressure (NTP)
octolocular
onychogryposis
optimized model of power source
option mutual fund
overridingly
parochialize
piperonaldehyde
pitching up
pointed wart
polliniate
polyphase microstructure
possessiveness
potance file
procorpus
propulsive putput
pudding boom
punching station
quains
rail carrying jack
reasonable use of water
reference cylinder of worm
relocatable expression
ring diseases
secondary soil
sellt
seminiferous ampullae
Shannon
similitive
sixguns
stack furnace
stock market sector
sweatbath
swordlet
telescopic motion
temperature regulation center
Thermal Management
Thermofor kiln
three tier winding
three-martini luncheon
train-stop
transfer receipt
turbine driven feedwater pump
unches
us -worthy
vaginellae
virtuosoes
wind blow
xanthophylls
xiphiass
zythologist