时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(三月)


英语课

1. A lawyer representing a driver who reported his Toyota Prius sped out of control on a California freeway is sticking by his client's story. A congressional memo 1 raises questions about what happened to James Sikes. The attorney says he's unmoved by the memo, saying investigators 2 were unable to replicate 3 the incident during an inspection 4.


 


2. Authority crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris 5 to reach downed power lines, working to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses as strong winds and heavy rain wreaked 6 havoc 7 in parts of the Northeast, killing 8 several people.


 


3. A strong earthquake hit off the coast of Japan, rattling 9 buildings across a broad swath of the country, including Tokyo. There were no immediate 10 reports of damage or casualties. And the government said there was no danger from tsunamis 11 following the estimated 6.6-magnitude quake.


 


4. Mr. Shuffles 12 made his public debut 13 at Sydney's Taronga Park Zoo. It was the first time the elephant left the barn where he was born on Wednesday after a difficult, nine-day labor 14 that left experts to believe he’d died in the womb.


 



n.照会,备忘录;便笺;通知书;规章
  • Do you want me to send the memo out?您要我把这份备忘录分发出去吗?
  • Can you type a memo for me?您能帮我打一份备忘录吗?
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.折叠,复制,模写;n.同样的样品;adj.转折的
  • The DNA of chromatin must replicate before cell division.染色质DNA在细胞分裂之前必须复制。
  • It is also easy to replicate,as the next subsection explains.就像下一个小节详细说明的那样,它还可以被轻易的复制。
n.检查,审查,检阅
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
诉诸(武力),施行(暴力),发(脾气)( wreak的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city. 地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • They have wreaked dreadful havoc among the wildlife by shooting and trapping. 他们射杀和诱捕野生动物,造成了严重的破坏。
n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
n.海啸( tsunami的名词复数 )
  • Our oceans are alive with earthquakes, volcanoes, and more recently, tsunamis. 海中充满着地震、火山,包括最近发生的海啸。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年2月号
  • Please tell me something more about tsunamis! 请您给我讲讲海啸吧! 来自辞典例句
n.洗(纸牌)( shuffle的名词复数 );拖着脚步走;粗心地做;摆脱尘世的烦恼v.洗(纸牌)( shuffle的第三人称单数 );拖着脚步走;粗心地做;摆脱尘世的烦恼
  • She shuffles cards expertly, all the guys stare in amazement. 她熟练地洗着牌,爷们都看呆了。 来自互联网
  • Fortune shuffles cards, but we discard them. 命运负责洗牌,而出牌的是我们自己。 来自互联网
n.首次演出,初次露面
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
学英语单词
Ac lent
achromatic fiber
adenosyl-homocysteinase
ahmad shah masouds
air-blasting
aircrush
amoeboid glacier
Ataphrus
Atomaster
authorization by direction
brightfields
brings it on
bromoacetal
call forwarding on mobile subscriber not reachable
CDEG
cephalhydroccle
colour microfilm
command guidances
conjugate image noise
copying to
cored ammonium nitrate dynamite
cross adding
crudware
cryptomnesic
cuddle up to
data overlay
design circuit
donor graft
Durness Limestone
dutch-speaking
Dzhimdan
electrical demulsifier
fantellism
Faraday magnetooptical effect
first order model
gasquet
gastroduodenal artery
general service category
getting at
go-in
hand threshed
harbo(u)r engineering survey
Hebraise
human resources capital plan
impulse frequency system
in full charge
in-the-environment propagation delay
ingelas
interflowing
kakerlak
klossiella caviae
lift ... hand
limnobiotic
line-commutated converter
longitudinal vibration characteristic
lymphangiosarcomata
mawlid
medulla spinalis
metastable phase diagram
middle jiao being organ of soaking
Morton, Thomas
mugilogobius cavifrons
multibyte
multiphoton ionization
negative reinforcers
nonadjunct
nouveau-riches
operating power
pa y?eh fu kuan
parasitic wave
perpetual mobile
photocell amplifier
portland blast-furnace cement
potassium manganous sulfate
product designing
rabbani
reliablity
rituality
rolling-contact type regulator
sales promotion expense
Sapta Sindhu
sarcoplegma
sauced beef
scratchbrush
scrip certificates issued for fractional shares
silvertips
single molecule detection
skimpoles
stationary battery
steam turbine electric propulsion plant
sub-surface
succiniferous
surface reflection
sutton-in-ashfield
sylvanshine
tethered
thermomicropolar theory
tropotaxis
upper grid plate
well-field system
whoop-de-dos
world-old