时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(五月)


英语课

1. BP's "Top Kill" operation is underway. The company says it's trying to seal the blown-out oil well in the Gulf 1 of Mexico by pumping heavy mud into it. Company officials say it could be a couple of days before they know whether it's working.


2. After three days of street battles, Jamaican security forces have a tenuous 2 hold on a slum that's the stronghold of an alleged 3 cocaine 4 trafficker wanted in the US. And at least 44 civilians 5 have been killed. The suspect Christopher Coke is still at large.


3. Art Linkletter, a popular TV host in the 1950s and 60s, has died. He was 97 years old. Linkletter was known on TV for his funny interviews with children and ordinary folks.


4. A horde 6 of millions of frogs forced Greek officials to shut down the major highway for several hours. Authorities say the frogs probably left a nearby lake to look for food.

 



1 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
2 tenuous
adj.细薄的,稀薄的,空洞的
  • He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.他对现实认识很肤浅。
  • The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.距离地面十公里的空气十分稀薄。
3 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
4 cocaine
n.可卡因,古柯碱(用作局部麻醉剂)
  • That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
  • Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
5 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
6 horde
n.群众,一大群
  • A horde of children ran over the office building.一大群孩子在办公大楼里到处奔跑。
  • Two women were quarrelling on the street,surrounded by horde of people.有两个妇人在街上争吵,被一大群人围住了。
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学英语单词
accredited university
acroneurosis
after-only measurement
air contamination
aluminide rock
amylum iodatum
atmospheric transparency
Auasbila
auditoky after-effect
awards
basic empty weight (bew)
BCR
besteals
bicorn, bicornate
bloody shirt
butragueno
carnivalesques
cesarean delivery
chasing calender
chevron bone
chokedamp
cigarette machine
color absorber
come apart at the seam
concertina fold
control clerk
conversion by retarding field
correlating
cost-volume-profit graph
Damnacanthus tsaii
deboshed
decision scoring table
depressor arcus branchial muscle
digital coefficient unit
dive into
dollar bill
drive index
dual bus system
effect disk
Elaeocarpus lanceifolius
emotional problem
end-expiratory
exponentiation marker
handmade specialties
Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus
Hemsleya dipterygia
Hernandarias
indicator indicial admittance
initialiser
internal revenue agents
interpolated contour
interpretive simulation
irrigation by gravity
isorrheic
jittering
jock itch
Kamchukchee
L. G. R.
lemyre
Lesser Cold
lost of gloss
Löwenstedt
marginalis
maximum possible sunshine duration
mewlers
minimoon
netfly
nonlymphoproliferative
originating user agent
overconstrains
paranal fork
pityriasis uterinum
plaitings
Port Union
position of strength
principle of work
process header slot
proportional action needle valve
psammic
radiometric calibration
rate of return on sales
resignest
resistance component of impedance
rudder pin
run-on tire
Sardian
sheep in sheep's clothing
suck round
taxable item
thalofide
the darling of all hearts
toxication
treble ported slide valve
twin fabric disk
uneven subsidence
uniphasic potenital
unproscribed
wefts
whip into
wiggle room
zonslity of soil