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
above freezing
air buoyancy correction
alcohol-marijuana
andes holiday dances (s. america)
atopognoses
auto factory
back-passes
backspin rolls
balloonings
battersoable grommet
black right whale
bobba
bogus transaction
bounded
broadwise broken
cab tyre
card image format
ceramic-metal combination
cerberin
charge spectrum
cholesteryls
classification of disease and injury
cobra lilies
contract sales
control-rod mounting plate
culture of tropical fish
Curiapo
CV (common version)
dark brown sugar
dermatotrophia
entry on home office books
enzyme engineering
exhaust clack
external cycloidal gear
fast Fourier transforms
ferdinand magellans
Findlay, Mt.
first fillmass
fractional sound
Fritillaria maximowiczii
full implement
gemma
gigglingly
glycoaminoglycans
green-and-yellow
hafu
homestar
Hose Connectors
hypertensive rat
IASLC
internal premise
komiyama
land recovery area
lemnian earth (cimolite)
management by compartment
mast pivot bracket
micheal
microprogramming tool
mindlin-herrmann rod theiry
molecular medicine
mucomimetic
narrow fabric loom
native cranberries
nsoa (nuclear safety operatios analysis)
number of twists
oldfashioned
parameterize
pay streak
phenisonone
phoresis
pivaloyl
polytheizing
potassium selenocyanate
predicative cases
private labour and social labour
pump disk
Purbeckian stage
Regio orbitalis
regular-interval
rider carrier
Rimocortius
rolly polly
salonicas
scientific-discovery
sea jungle
shared data base
shrink packaging machine
Spittal an der Drau
stabilized loop
sucrose esters of fatty acids
surjection
Switserland
taungya system
texture discrimination
thallic fluoride
three-day-events
thunder lizards
true motion indication
two-out
undersurface filling
unmanned weather station
vicious circle