时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:初学者听力文摘精选


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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。
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a nut
abstract models
Alcampel
antidepressants
antifactory
Arsac
art-historical
as blithe as a butterfly
aziridination
baktolan
ballooning colliquation
bangs out
batch type heating furnace
bazoft
before ... time
bonsecour
broken rhymes
callar
called calling
cast sheep's eyes at someone
cerebral cortex reflex
Comoro Islands
compliance-based ethics code
conjurison
Cremanthodium nervosum
cross carrier chain
design constraints
desisa takasagona
endpoint monitoring
epoxy resin pattern
exhaustive expenditure
fetoplacental
forward trading
Fourier equation
Fournier, C.
frangipannis
gain the lead in
have too much of his mother's blessing
hulley
imcomplete
inevitable
integral extinction
kantorowicz
Kriens
level map
lienal artery
look through rose-coloured glasses
low-side float valve
Lutonians
Markuszów
maxer
maximum distance of perceptibility
maximum moment of inertia
military supply
mortal wall
Neelys Landing
nfma
non-lockings
nonvariation
ossicula cordis
pageturner
Pallava Dynasty
palming
perforated head
peruvian asphalite
pestanoes
photoelectric wavelength
piping symbol
plane of flat pencil
pocket-pool
polystyle
projected outline
public accounting profession
pyelofluoroscopy
randallstown
read-in
remissful
Rhododendron auriculatum
Rogallo wing
scheduling monitor computer
separate slit image
separate-application adhesive
serofast
shallow chest
siragusa
slangish
steatosis simplex
subcardioid
telling from
termination shocks
theological-ethical
tranquilizers
traveling portable jib crane
Tumu Tumu
turnip bed
uncowling
vilified
vitium
vivaed
Webber
Xenophons
zoo