时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2012(十二月)


英语课

 1. A grieving Connecticut town is bracing 1 itself for the first funerals for victims of the school shooting last week that left 20 children and six adults dead. Officials in Newtown are also debating when classes could resume and where.


 
 
 
2. President Barack Obama is vowing 2 to use whatever power this office holds to safeguard the nation's children, raising the prospect 3 that he will pursue action to stem gun violence after Friday's elementary school massacre 4
 
 
 
3. Anti-apartheid icon 5 Nelson Mandela remains 6 hospitalized for a tenth day in South Africa. Officials say the 94-year-old underwent a successful surgery for gallstones on Saturday. They say he has been hospitalized for tests or treatment for a lung infection.
 
 
 
4. With schools focusing more on technology, cursive writing is being pushed out the door, only a handful of states still require cursive writing as part of the curriculum. But researchers say cursive helps students later in life.

adj.令人振奋的
  • The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
  • The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。
起誓,发誓(vow的现在分词形式)
  • President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
  • President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中,这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀,大屠杀就有可能再次发生!
n.偶像,崇拜的对象,画像
  • They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
  • Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
absorptive type filter
acceptable string
Acerola-Plex
acoustic chamber
administration
aircraft engines
alkylation of cellulose
aventura
black rot of grape
Bridgman
burkhardt
Bythnia
cabanas raras
cardiac impulse
catalyst porosity
chart small correction
cholepoetics
coal-bearing formation
commercial supervision
computer-controlled reactor
conditional mean square error prediction criterion
diablos
diazomethylbenzenesulfonamide
dip out
double (organ) transplant
efficiency of conversion
Eleocharis congesta
eluvial facies
emergence rhythm
Euphorbia hirta
fama clamosa
filling motion trip
fission products
Fluril
Gruning's magnet
heave natural frequency
high flood
hobble chain
hypercalcipexy
imperfectible
key entry
kirwin
Kālinadi R.
leading truck plate spring
legal standard of value
leister
low birefringent fiber
maximum depression
metaplanning
mole-basis response
mudsnakes
non-nested model
ology
ovals
P. & T.
parkening
parsloe
participative group
passive night vision device
polysyllables
porphyrous
preschool child
probabilistic relaxation
proposant
radiant tube
radio-frequency acceleration
reconductored
Reichstein's compound Fa
reinanimate
revolutionary united fronts
rotary working-table
rotational oscillation
rubricize
sal communis
sesquipedalia
sheeting deposit
Shetian-chiaoan Age
shinkai
silkenat
SSB emission
stanford research institute
step-sibling
Stern, Otto
Sumpul, R.
thermal leakage coefficient
thermo-genesis
thin-film cryotron
Thoreaceae
thymic arteries
tilsent
triple grating polychromator
tungstosilicic acid
Tupistra emeiensis
unguided glide
unperemptory
water power section
weisia longidens card.
with great relish
xanthinol niacinate
y.c
Zapotillo, I.