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
-glia
African Committee on Human and People's Rights
alternating current transformer
anesthesia note
astronaut's wife
asynchronous time-division multiplex
autoploid(autopolyploid)
Baker Life Chute
bichords
big stone
binocular cue
bitumen peat
bright young thing
Caldeirão, Sa.do
cardiac sounds
cargo pumping switchboard
charlene
choaspes benjaminii formosanus
Cocculus orbiculatus
compiler error
Cromoly
Cuebe, R.
cyclic digital telemetering (cdt)
dark current of photomultiplier tube
definer
deinotheres
delbonine
depeached
divining-rod
door lamp
double layer metallization
draw in
drogouls
dryopteris lacera
Dutch account
duwadami (ad dawadimi)
enclosing
enumerable
episternal bar
Eskimo-Aleut
Ethiopical
EWAC
exponential part
Gedor
go-or-no-go ga ge
greased it in
Groupdel
high softening point resin
high-frequency analysis
Hong Kongite
hukkah
hummingbird moths
hydraulic torque convertor
ice-bunker refrigerator car
IPPBX
isams
isostructures
larmor procession
liquid aluminium
little corellas
metal foil overlay
middle C's
minimum bounding box
mirror transition
Moko disease
multiple quantum well detector
murguia
Māsimpur
neptunium silicide
non-lacquer metallized paper capacitor
out-vote
over-specify
pathologic mitosis
petrogeologists
petroleum fuel oil
phase integral
pin connected
Pleurospermum wrightianum
pneumatised
Prevention of Terrorism Act
pure germanium radiation detector
Qandahar
Salvia officinalis
science fictioner
simplified external-thread symbol
skardon
sludge carrier
supermaxes
Syzygium grijsii
taxi truck
teat cup assembly
templepatricks
thiebauts
Thor's Cave
topping line
tuppence-worth
uncus gyri fornicati
urwin
vanzant
vulns
weighed filter