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
5FS
aeration factor
ammonium persulphate
analogical learning
asperities
Avram Iancu
baptize by
beta-stability line
bracemaker
cable lamp
Camellia-oil
cast alloy iron
chestnut blights
Chukotskoye More
coextending
coleopalorus foveicollis
compensation reactor
converter motor
crank bearing liner
crowds in
cushion depression depth
degenerate set of points
directory tape processor
diuretic wine Trousseau's
doliariin
dukha
economic incentive principle
Egyptian lace
Eigen, Manfred
Erethizon dorsatum
fancy rib top machine
fantine
fetches up
flue gas turbine expander
fluorohectorite
forced double refraction
fovea inferior fossae rhomboideae
frictional alloying
genetic counselings
geordieland
guaiac woods
heimbach
high voltage switchgear equipment
high-level programming language
iccat
inductomeric effect
informationalization
Le Pin-au-Haras
life cycle of product
Lise Meitner
machine hours
mokume
murine encephalomyelitis
Murless head extractor
one's days are numbered
ophiolitic suite
ophiotholia
p-hydroxybenzaldehyde
pancarte
pestalotia aceris p. henn.
phantom target
planar devices
Pocheon-gun
post-seismic
power house along river bank
prevalution test
pseudodiffusion
quick start capability
Rasberry Pi
ravenna grasses
sailers
sailorship
salary statement
sand and dust test
Sant'Antioco
seismic filter
semileptonic decay
sheringtons
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single shouldered tieplate
solid gunwale
Spanish lime
special purpose grinder
standard variance analysis
sulphopone
Susan B Anthony dollar
syrian arab republics
tac-strip
teamnets
toe spread
truthlessness
unclamorous
Viby
viscometric titration
water for fire-fighting
waterproof watch
weinebeneite (uvalolite)
whsle.
wire guard
world history
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