时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(四)月


英语课

1.Officials say a young gunman has been successfully and safely disarmed 1 aboard a hijacked 2 Canadian charter jet on the ground in Jamaica. All the passengers have been released but six crew members were still aboard. The gunman is described as "mentally challenged” and was demanding to be flown to Cuba.


2.It was ten years ago today that two students killed a teacher and twelve of their classmates at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. A private memorial service for the victims is planned for tonight on the school's campus.


3.The US and Israel are leading a boycott 3 of a UN conference on racism 4 that opens today in Switzerland. The countries are concerned that the Muslim nations will dominate the conference with calls to denounce Israel and for a global ban on criticizing Islam.


4.It's Holocaust 5 Remembrance Day in Israel. In Jerusalem, two Auschwitz survivors 6 have come together to talk about their experiences 65 years after they first met as teenagers in the death camp.



v.裁军( disarm的过去式和过去分词 );使息怒
  • Most of the rebels were captured and disarmed. 大部分叛乱分子被俘获并解除了武装。
  • The swordsman disarmed his opponent and ran him through. 剑客缴了对手的械,并对其乱刺一气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
劫持( hijack的过去式和过去分词 ); 绑架; 拦路抢劫; 操纵(会议等,以推销自己的意图)
  • The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome. 飞机在从伦敦飞往罗马途中遭到两名持械男子劫持。
  • The plane was hijacked soon after it took off. 那架飞机起飞后不久被劫持了。
n./v.(联合)抵制,拒绝参与
  • We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
  • The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。
n.民族主义;种族歧视(意识)
  • He said that racism is endemic in this country.他说种族主义在该国很普遍。
  • Racism causes political instability and violence.种族主义道致政治动荡和暴力事件。
n.大破坏;大屠杀
  • The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
  • Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀,因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
学英语单词
accept a bill of exchange
air/ground cooperation
alkalimetrical
apostilling
Asa-yama
association for specialists in group work(asgw)
asynapsis
asynartete
authoritarianism scale
automatic block with impulse track circuit
Baichongwo
bamboo hair
Breteuil
bubbling frequency
canal of fecundation
carcinoma atrophicans
chemical membrane compounds
collopexia
come out of his shell
conflow
convincible
cowshed
credit plan
crotising
cylindric cell adenocarcinoma
downhomes
drying oil alkyd resin
Early Latin
effronts
eggers
electronic bearing marker
elementide
ESF (engineered safeguards features)
ethyl-2-cyanoacrylate
fault horst
frontad
fulcrum table
Glasgow, Ellen (Anderson Gholson)
golems
grid leak condenser
gurardian
hydronium jarosite
idiolectal
instant-on switch
irrepugnable
Kakagi L.
kollermill
land effect
leadframe
leaping house
lect.
light type combustible gas detector
lunas
lunge standing
maples
means of random variables
meaw
metallized ceramic
minimum safe manning
mixture indicator
multiple instances
Nasielsk
nauruan
new system economics
non-intermittent film projector
oenocyte
optical empty
pallets
Papaver somniferum
pointed tooth
population growth rate
praw one's pen against something
propulsion characteristic
pseudoxanthomas
quasiperiodic orbit
racket ball
Recrein
ring installation
Rozhentsovo
run locator routine
Seidel scotoma
seive
self-applause
Sizewell
solid layer methodpre-deposited pollution test
South Ossetia Autonomous Oblast
struck up
swinging-bucket ditch cleaner
tactual acuity
telethermoeter
third-party
time temperature cycle
tin-lead plating
ultra-centrifuge process
unberths
uncoherent
urbanas
vapor heat capacity
visual speech center
Weinsheim
whitesapote
wood drake