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
acceptable dosedose
adrenal crisis
alloy-junction transistor
ancistroid, ancistrous
antimilitaristic
artificial petroleum
attenuated total reflectance
autorich mixture
beastily
bhoy
cenothermy
channeler
cloranolol
compass pin
conventional current
Cyclasterion scarlatinale
data access data channel
dekalb-peachtree
delprostenate
diffusionsintering
discretional
distributed free space
domain management
drafters
electrode edge
fast salt
ferrules
fluid-rock interaction
foglie
fructus ailanthi
fundiform ligament of foot
FWD & REW
genus Zoysia
get-acquainted
grain wood
hatch end beam
hepatic cinnabar
honorable
Howardstown
illuminated windsock
Isfjord
James Boswell
juice head
kangaroo-foot plant
kerbs cycle reaction
laboratory test-engine method
ligamentum teres
Llanarth
macroeconomics of productivity
manual telephone system
mean estimate histogram
molten salt circulating pump
negligence of operation
notice of ratification
Oleksiyivka
overlap ratio
pantomography
partial birefringence
pelvicephalograph
pilot survey
polyangle
posthumous
present participles
proximal nephron
quo warranto
rancid odo(u)r
resinicium
rod reading
rough trade
same sort/merge area clause
sampling reliability
Schary, Dore
schwa primum
serial file
settle the succession
sister german
smuon
space indicate
spread of wheels
Stefan's law of radiation
subacute fatal hepatitis
sugar metabolism
supporting apparatus
Tarsiers
tilia intonsa wils.
to admiration
trans-female
uncanniest
urban-o
vacuum tower
vegetable-oil
velocity of radio waves
velocity wave,
vibilia chuni
video-gain control
Vieja, L.
vorobiev
WAFU
wagging
warble rate
write-protect
zone of confusion