时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


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1. SWAT teams and police dogs are searching Dawson College in Montreal Canada after they say a gunman opened fire on a cafeteria. An unknown number of people have been shot including a shooter who shot himself.

2. The coroner's office in the Bahamas says the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s son is suspicious. The coroner says the cause of death is known but will not be released until toxicology results are in. 20-year-old Daniel Smith died while visiting the hospital where his mother recently gave birth to a baby girl.

3. Spacewalking astronauts struggle to loosen stuck bolts while assembling part of the International Space Station today. They had a few battles with hardware on their more than 7-hour mission. Astronauts lost another bolt, decided 1 to make do with 3 fasteners and had to deal with a broken power tool.

4. It's no longer a friendly rivalry 2 between two South Carolina city officials. A surveillance tape shows Jim Bell, walking behind the councilman's car, allegedly keying the vehicle as he passes. Police say they caught Mr. Bell vandalizing the car during a sting operation.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. coroner : n-count
A coroner is an official who is responsible for investigating the deaths of people who have died in a sudden, violent, or unusual way.

2. toxicology : n-uncount
Toxicology is the study of poisons.

3. make do with : phrase
If you make do with something, you use or have it instead of something else that you do not have, although it is not as good.

4. rivalry : n-var
Rivalry is competition or fighting between people, businesses, or organizations who are in the same area or want the same things.

5. vandalize :verb
If something such as a building or part of a building is vandalized by someone, it is damaged on purpose.



adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.竞争,竞赛,对抗
  • The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
  • He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。
学英语单词
agamic complex
atomic bomb
atomic transaction
attached files
axis mundi
Bengkung
binti
bistritsa r.
buried copper
butwine
capital of Djibouti
cesium amide
complete electric vehicle kerb mass
concrete unit
corruscate
dapperer
davinson
deep-water wave
di-n-octyl-2-oxopropanphonate
diffractiveness
dihexagonal pyramidal class
Dodge-Roming tables
eaves purlin
electron-beam addressed memory
Emile Herzog
Eulerian chain
film cooled combustion chamber
flavons
full backup
gemba
geometrical geodesy
heterozygous allele
high-aspect-ratios
hybrid fiber/ coax
immunologic escape
Indian capital
input-transformation-output module
iron glycerophosphate
late development
Leptospira mitis
lightning discharge
liocranchia valdiviae
luckyite (luckite)
Ludovico
MAD (multiple access device)
maddogs
malum pilare
Maritrema
moving stairs
ninox japonica totogo
nitranilic
non-determinations
normal service conditions
one-digit subtractor
opera-houses
out-halves
paper clay
paramorph
percolation theory
project dicision
psq
put her down
quaternations
rariconstant theory
registration desk
rolley way
rotating-rectifier exciter
S.I.R.
San Benedetto del Tronto
sand-bottomed
sarracenialess
sealed-unit
Selly
sentire
sharwal
sialidaes
simultaneously measurable
slight haze
split window
spot month trading
spring-loaded quilled type indirect pilot
stegonia latifolia(schwaegr.)vent.
Stewart-Allen
stinkschiefer
stoutes
stretch on the Procrustean bed
stringing
supershows
supersonic diffusor
synchronous control system
tautologizes
tension disc
terminal line of pelvis
thiacyclopropene
Thiosphaera
unbonnet
under-feed furnace
unstructured
well seated prejudice
ynolates