时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年6月


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1. Flood fears in the Midwest are now moving downriver. The Illinois Army National Guard is helping 1 with sandbagging duties in Quincy. And about 100 miles downriver, evacuations are underway in Grafton. A total of five deaths have been linked to the floods here.


2. Al Gore 2 says he's backing Barack Obama. And he says he'll do whatever he can to help the Illinois senator get to the White House. Gore says Obama has united a movement over the past year and a half.


3. A Missouri woman has pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles federal court to charges in a MySpace hoax 3. Fifty-nine-year-old Lori Drew allegedly helped create a MySpace account that purported 5 to be for a 16-year-old boy. The account was used to send cruel messages to 13-year-old Megan Meier. Meier hanged herself at home in 2006.


4. Police in McAllen seized six Bengal tiger cubs 6 they say may have been offered for sale. Authorities believe the tigers were going to be smuggled 7 into Mexico. Officials say four of the tigers could fetch up to $5,000 each. They've been temporarily placed in a zoo about 60 miles away.


WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. purport 4 to:


If you say that someone or something purports 8 to do or be a particular thing, you mean that they claim to do or be that thing, although you may not always believe that claim.


2. fetch: v.


If something fetches a particular sum of money, it is sold for that amount.



n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.凝血,血污;v.(动物)用角撞伤,用牙刺破;缝以补裆;顶
  • The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。
  • Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。
v.欺骗,哄骗,愚弄;n.愚弄人,恶作剧
  • They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
  • They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。
n.意义,要旨,大要;v.意味著,做为...要旨,要领是...
  • Many theories purport to explain growth in terms of a single cause.许多理论都标榜以单一的原因解释生长。
  • Her letter may purport her forthcoming arrival.她的来信可能意味着她快要到了。
adj.传说的,谣传的v.声称是…,(装得)像是…的样子( purport的过去式和过去分词 )
  • the scene of the purported crime 传闻中的罪案发生地点
  • The film purported to represent the lives of ordinary people. 这部影片声称旨在表现普通人的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.幼小的兽,不懂规矩的年轻人( cub的名词复数 )
  • a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
  • Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
水货
  • The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网
v.声称是…,(装得)像是…的样子( purport的第三人称单数 )
  • She purports to represent the whole group. 她自称代表整个团体。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The document purports to be official but is really private. 那份文件据称是官方的,但实际上是私人的。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
ALSD
amalgam condenser
anaerobic ecosystem
azaurin
bindor
blastulae
blue flag
brake rod spring
buxepidine
cancani's seismic intensity scale
carpetimycin
carry storage device
catfits
cattle rest
caysel
cessment
commodification of information
composition sequence
compulsory purchase order
conveyer pawl spring
dalbergias
denouncement
ecology of salt marsh
electric heating wire
electrodynamicss
ETE (electro-thermal nondestructive examination)
excitation power
face count
fair-spoken
feyer
flaks'
flight article
fluorescent paint
gear tooth caliper
genus anaphaliss
genus ariommas
genus elaphes
guillemets
heater type
heloes
Hydrochlorbenzethylamine
hyperinstantons
i-dut
infocriminal
interest on payment for purchases
intermediate storage rack
keep on the right side of the law
kessinger
kussmaullandry paralysis
lac warnish
lanagitoside
log survey
low-level output current
major factors
megalomaniac
meritus
metamylene
modified syntax machine
monofrequent radiation
moving average line
multisystem network facility
often cross-pollinated crop
orchid-colored
ovel
overaccelerate
ozocerite
p-bromo-monofluoroacetoanilide
paleoconservative
Pamplonan
parasitic convection
pH sensitivity
phonetic law
photoperceptive
phyllothelys werneri
political life
pookahs
pseudotrachoma
quadrupole resonance
Quarantine Objects
quasi mortgage
ram intake
rhabdosarcoma
roentgen rays (x-ray)
routine test jack
self adjusting system
shotgun weddings
side loader system
sintered bronze filter disc
sixfold degeneracy
special equipment for making pipe twist
spiral sluice
sponser
status civitatis
streme
superably
Tatrazine
tenter pin
train list information in advance
unfeds
walk off with sth
wave-train frequency
Welwitschia mirabilis