时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2007


英语课

1. Ice and snow are making for treacherous 1 travel this holiday weekend. Power is out to thousands of homes in the Midwest. At least five people have died from pileups in several states.


2. In an early morning tragedy, fire destroyed a Baptist church in Jacksonville, Florida. No one was injured.The flames lit up the sky. The sanctuary 2 burned to the ground, but the gymnasium was spared. Church officials say that is where they will hold Christmas services. An investigation 3 is underway.


3. Roger Clemens is again denying he ever used steroids or injected anything into his body. The all-star pitcher 4 posted a video on his website and Youtube. His name was prominent in the Mitchell Report that detailed 5 baseball players' steroid use. Clemens says he plans to answer questions about allegations in the future.


4. Santa Claus is getting an early start to Christmas. He is greeting boys and girls at his home in Finland. The North Pole is too busy for guests at this time of year. Tomorrow night, Saint Nicolas will be off on his sleigh, delivering toys to children worldwide.



1 treacherous
adj.不可靠的,有暗藏的危险的;adj.背叛的,背信弃义的
  • The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers.路面的积水对驾车者构成危险。
  • The frozen snow was treacherous to walk on.在冻雪上行走有潜在危险。
2 sanctuary
n.圣所,圣堂,寺庙;禁猎区,保护区
  • There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。
  • Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。
3 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
4 pitcher
n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手
  • He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
  • Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
5 detailed
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
学英语单词
airletter
anafront
anchyloses
antiargenin
antiultraviolet camouflage
Ariari, R.
attitudes scales
auction bridges
battery box
bed skirt
bidirectional deletion
bigelow
bikini wax
borolithochrome
bridge structure design
brief survey
broken family
burton method of transfer
C. J. C.
call your shot
ceap
circular washer
Citrus poonensis Tanaka
coppered carbon
department chair
development system
diatol
digital information processing system
dynamic logic circuit
electothermometer
Erb's iuvenile type
exchange flesh
flash valve
forciea
geminiviral
golda
guard relay
harbingers
high-resolution Michelson interferometer
hollow tube
hurter & driffield curve
hydrofracture grouting
IDA (input data assembler)
ignosterol
incurvatum
inferior cervical cardiac branches
initiati
Kasumbalesa
Krakatau, Pulau
last record
Leptospira mezzana
make system disk
matrimonial suit
meat-free
metanetwork
minored in
mufangchinA
neatsfoot
oenologue
Orichi
orthodoxic
osmium tetroxide
Ovshinsky semiconductor
partial racemic mixture
penaeidae
penicillin-binding protein
phaeosphaeria zingiberis
picking her up
Processus coronoideus ulnae
projection diapositive
quasi-satellite city
quebracho blanco
radial commutator
rare gas removal pilot plant
removing of radiological agents
return orifice check valve
roll turning shop
roller painter
safety pressure margin
sale at deduced price
seemannii
selective capital increase
set sth against sth
silicon carbides
skyvans
sleepeth
Snyder Peninsula
software malfunction
specific unit capaity purchases
Sybil Thorndike
table of grades for academic achievement and student conduct
treatment timer
trioxanes
trunk line routes
turfdoms
ultrapeer
Wigand's maneuver
wool bat
word size
ximing
XXXs
y-cell