时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


英语课

1. Dozens of women and children were killed after an Israeli air strike hit the southern Lebanese town of Qana overnight. Many world leaders are outrage 1d over the attack and have stepped up demands for a ceasefire.

2. Elections were held in the Congo Sunday for the first time in more than 4 decades, 33 people are on the ballot 3 for president. The European Union sent troops to help secure the vote.

3. Wildfires continue to burn in the west. Hundreds of firefighters battle blazes in South Dakota. Their efforts have been hamper 4ed by high winds and temperatures climbing over 100 degrees.

4. And record-setting temperatures are crippling communities across the nation. Meteorologists say more than 60 percent of the U.S. is in need of rain.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. outrage : verb
If you are outraged 2 by something, it makes you extremely shocked and angry.

2. hamper : verb
to prevent somebody from easily doing or achieving something
e.g. Our efforts were severely 6 hampered 5 by a lack of money.

3. cripple : verb
To cripple a machine, organization, or system means to damage it severely or prevent it from working properly.

4. meteorologist : n-count
a scientist who studies meteorology
meteorology : n-uncount --- 气象学
Meteorology is the study of the processes in the Earth's atmosphere that cause particular weather conditions, especially in order to predict the weather.



n.暴行,侮辱,愤怒;vt.凌辱,激怒
  • When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
  • We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
a.震惊的,义愤填膺的
  • Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
  • He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
n.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
  • The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
vt.妨碍,束缚,限制;n.(有盖的)大篮子
  • There are some apples in a picnic hamper.在野餐用的大篮子里有许多苹果。
  • The emergence of such problems seriously hamper the development of enterprises.这些问题的出现严重阻碍了企业的发展。
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
  • So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地
  • He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
  • He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
学英语单词
120-1b rail
a piece of ground covered with tree
admissi
Allmannshofen
amastigia tricervicornis
andronicus
aparejoes
apostleship
apparent necessity
arianisms
avian infectious bronchitis virus
back-logged
bel-
bommais
booster element
brazilianite
bumping machine
cable meter
cast-in-place method
central disk
cettia diphone sakhalinensis
chromophobes
coagulum
coke foundry
come through the gate of horn
computerate
control card sort
Cryptococcus dermatitidis
delivery control mechanism
displacement type float
dns parking
double soliton
electrical property separating
entering basic variable
environmental impact report
excited type
field guns
fore-and-aft force
founder
Gentiana trichotoma
gjetost
glass building
H.E.D.
hair driers
impulse protection level
induction braging
inter-service
intrauterine death
isotope paleosalinity
ivaz
jack chuck
Joint Ownership of Ship
kunstgewerbemuseum
land strip
law of diminishing intensity of wants
less prominent
majorization order
Mekhitarist
mountaineer (alpinist)
mouse out
negative pressure trousers
Nehvdrin
Om Hajer
operating recommendation
penicillenate
pentanes
phuck
physarum cinereum(bstsch)persoon
pinladge retainer
primary cells
puddle core
pulp strainer
Ranunculus natans
rear-facing seat
self coated lining
sequential copolymer
signalment
slag-hammer
sleepwrite
Slovakians
Society Islands
solution body
space technology
Speng
submerged electrode
subrogated right
survey for land consolidation
tenrec
test-basis examinations in auditing
the coldest month
the shit hits the fan
thymectomy
tranisent program table
typewrite
Typhus/Vac
volcanic gravel
walk in on sb
weighted round robin
welt
wheel base
yahis