时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:小龟乐游记英语短文


英语课
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Origin:Origin Is The Truuuuuuu-u-u-u-u-thhhhhh.
Angela Weaver:Stand down.Now it is complete.
Councilman:...and then what happened?
Angela Weaver:The ship was ours.The Ethereal and I __(1)__ to Mosaic 1 network.Every last Outsider on Earth was under our - under MY - command.The power was...surprising.With Mosaic under my control,I was able to force the Outsiders to turn on one another.They didn't surrender - they died.After ordering them to _(2)_ each other,I allowed their command ship to fall from the sky.Our own people disassembled what they left behind.We destroyed what we couldn't take apart.
Councilman:We understand you took an..extreme approach to concealing 2 their attacks.
Angela Weaver:We couldn't risk allowing evidence of the Outsiders to remain.We did preserve some of their technology for study.We have a lot to learn from it.The coverup seems to have worked.The areas that we couldn't bulldoze have been sealed off.In time,they'll be wiped off the map entirely 3.No evidence of the Outsider invasion remains 4.No one will ever know how close we ___(3)___.
Councilman:This lie will hold?
Angela Weaver:We control the newspapers.Anyone who could exposed the truth is dead or already with XCOM.
Councilman:What of the infected?
Angela Weaver:We had no choice.They had to be disposed of.Even if we could have cured them all,they might have had memories of the attack.We made sure it was quick and _(4)_.
Councilman:Very well.And the other creature?
Angela Weaver:The Ethereal brake the bond after we exterminated 5 the Outsiders.Its status,its location and its intent are...unknown.
Councilman:Understood,agent.That will be all...__(5)__...

1 mosaic
n./adj.镶嵌细工的,镶嵌工艺品的,嵌花式的
  • The sky this morning is a mosaic of blue and white.今天早上的天空是幅蓝白相间的画面。
  • The image mosaic is a troublesome work.图象镶嵌是个麻烦的工作。
2 concealing
v.隐藏,隐瞒,遮住( conceal的现在分词 )
  • Despite his outward display of friendliness, I sensed he was concealing something. 尽管他表现得友善,我还是感觉到他有所隐瞒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • SHE WAS BREAKING THE COMPACT, AND CONCEALING IT FROM HIM. 她违反了他们之间的约定,还把他蒙在鼓里。 来自英汉文学 - 三万元遗产
3 entirely
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
4 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。
5 exterminated
v.消灭,根绝( exterminate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • It was exterminated root and branch. 它被彻底剪除了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The insects can be exterminated by spraying DDT. 可以用喷撒滴滴涕的方法大量杀死这种昆虫。 来自《用法词典》
学英语单词
academic title
aide memoire
air governor
aquaelung
Araia
Armenian chant
atrophia maculosa cutis
bioethicists
block address
busted it
butylation
chenin blancs
cobbles together
column format
common curvature
contour effects
cotts
decimosexto
discharging place
dry-moulded
earthquake baroque
endosulfans
estipitate
ethionic
extraviscera
feeler guide slide
ferners
filamentosa
fragrancy pork in Zhenjiang style
free surface spinning
geniculum nervi facialis
Geonim
girdle-sensation
global wind system
glow-discharge voltage regulator tube
grazing allotment
guest bar
Hanafite school
headward erosion
heteroscedastic
Incumbency Certificate
indirect departmental cost
input communication
insectocution
jaw type quick coupler
latent summer-heat
leaf-like tissue
liquid pressure
Magallanes
man-machine interactive control
median furrow
mercury vapo(u)r
Mfou
mode 2 conical spiral antenna
Mohamit
moisture setting adhesive
nanometer(nm)
Nilandron
non-phenolic tanning agent
nondialysable
number of gears
oil pressure test or tightness
one way only channel
ore mineral
pay packet
perreptation
photo-delineation
photosynthesises
pixel art
polinices albumen
precautional patent
put the sand in the wheels
pypyn
Pérignac
quickenest
radio-protective substance
rate transparency
repayment period of capital cost
rotating cylinder (pneumatic)
rotation of coordinates
Rubus lobatus
Ruysch's glomeruli
Sarafsar
serpentiningly
Smilax riparia var pubescens
spruce grouse
ST_mathematics-and-arithmetic_parts-of-geometrical-shapes
stockholders
Subutraquian
sword dance
technology-transfers
telebooths
tension fail
thereaways
toolmanufacturer
toxotid
triskelion cross section
tsuha
upper beacon light
very high density lipoprotein (VHDL)
volt-columb
wedge block gauge