美联社新闻一分钟 2005-12-15
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. Campaigning halts and Baghdad streets are quiet on the eve of Thursday's parliamentary election which will decide who will govern Iraq for the next four years.
2. Iran's president escalates 2 his anti-Israeli rhetoric 3 , calling the Holocaust 4 a myth used by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world.
3. John McCain and White House officials meet, but fail to reach a compromise on the Senators' proposed ban on mistreatment of foreign terror suspects.
4. British police talk to a tanker 5 driver who may have accidentally ignited a fuel depot 6 explosion that injured 43, damaged buildings, and sent black smoke into the air.
5. Doctors present Peru's "miracle baby" to the public six months after surgery to separate her legs fused by a congenital defect known as "mermaid 7 syndrome 8".
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. escalate 1
escalate escalates escalating 9 escalated 10
If a bad situation escalates or if someone or something escalates it, it becomes greater in size, seriousness, or intensity 11. (JOURNALISM)
Both unions and management fear the dispute could escalate.
The protests escalated into five days of rioting.
Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.
V-ERG
2. rhetoric
1 rhetoric
If you refer to speech or writing as rhetoric, you disapprove 12 of it because it is intended to convince and impress people but may not be sincere or honest.
The change is largely cosmetic 13, a matter of acceptable political rhetoric rather than social reality.
The harsh rhetoric had so soured officials that the two sides were barely speaking.
N-UNCOUNT disapproval 14
3. holocaust
1 holocaust holocausts 15
A holocaust is an event in which there is a lot of destruction and many people are killed, especially one caused by war.
A nuclear holocaust seemed a very real possibility in the '50s.
N-VAR
4. fuse
4 fuse fuses fusing fused
When things fuse or are fused, they join together physically 16 or chemically, usually to become one thing. You can also say that one thing fuses with another.
The skull 17 bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.
Conception occurs when a single sperm 18 fuses with an egg.
Manufactured glass is made by fusing various types of sand.
Their solution was to isolate 19 specific clones of B cells and fuse them with cancer cells.
The flakes 20 seem to fuse together and produce ice crystals.
V-RECIP-ERG
5. congenital
1 congenital
A congenital disease or medical condition is one that a person has had from birth, but is not inherited. (MEDICAL)
When John was 17, he died of congenital heart disease.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
- It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级。
- Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。
- As the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. 面临的挑战越大，越需要团队协同合作。 来自互联网
- I cannot understand why a minor disagreement escalates into a fist-fight. 我真不明白为什么一点意见不合就变成了拳头相见。 来自互联网
- Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
- Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
- The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
- Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
- The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
- Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。
- The depot is only a few blocks from here.公共汽车站离这儿只有几个街区。
- They leased the building as a depot.他们租用这栋大楼作仓库。
- How popular would that girl be with the only mermaid mom!和人鱼妈妈在一起，那个女孩会有多受欢迎！
- The little mermaid wasn't happy because she didn't want to wait.小美人鱼不太高兴，因为她等不及了。
- The Institute says that an unidentified virus is to blame for the syndrome. 该研究所表示,引起这种综合症的是一种尚未确认的病毒。
- Results indicated that 11 fetuses had Down syndrome. 结果表明有11个胎儿患有唐氏综合征。
- The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句
- The fighting escalated into a full-scale war. 这场交战逐步扩大为全面战争。
- The demonstration escalated into a pitched battle with the police. 示威逐步升级，演变成了一场同警察的混战。
- I didn't realize the intensity of people's feelings on this issue.我没有意识到这一问题能引起群情激奋。
- The strike is growing in intensity.罢工日益加剧。
- I quite disapprove of his behaviour.我很不赞同他的行为。
- She wants to train for the theatre but her parents disapprove.她想训练自己做戏剧演员，但她的父母不赞成。
- These changes are purely cosmetic.这些改变纯粹是装饰门面。
- Laughter is the best cosmetic,so grin and wear it!微笑是最好的化妆品，所以请尽情微笑吧！
- The teacher made an outward show of disapproval.老师表面上表示不同意。
- They shouted their disapproval.他们喊叫表示反对。
- They have been able to keep on cheerfully plotting their holocausts right into their senescene. 他们都还能津津有味地继续策划他们的大暴动，直至他们的垂暮之年。 来自辞典例句
- The down sides to our inventions-the wars, weapons, holocausts, pollution-these too define our being. 发明的阴暗面——战争、武器、屠杀、污染——同样也定义了我们。 来自互联网
- He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
- Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
- The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
- He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。
- Only one sperm fertilises an egg.只有一个精子使卵子受精。
- In human reproduction,one female egg is usually fertilized by one sperm.在人体生殖过程中，一个精子使一个卵子受精。
- Do not isolate yourself from others.不要把自己孤立起来。
- We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.我们永远不能脱离群众。