时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英语新闻与报道—News and Reports


英语课

 Wk 37 (11 September 2001)


USA Suffers 4 Simultaneous AttacksThis Week in HistoryThe world watches in shock and awe 1 as 4 commercial airliners 2 wreak 3 havoc 4 in the USA.


 


In 2001, the world watched its TV screens in disbelief as 4 commercial airliners were simultaneously 5 hijacked 6 in U.S. airspace and diverted. Two were flown directly into the upper storeys of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York, causing their sudden collapse 7. A third was flown into the Pentagon in Washington, nerve center of the U.S. military. While the fourth was brought down before reaching its presumed target, the White House or Congress. Some 3,000 people died in these incidents.



n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧
  • The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
n.客机,班机( airliner的名词复数 )
  • The fog grounded the airliners. 大雾迫使班机停飞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They placed very stable and accurate atomic clocks on regularly scheduled jet airliners. 他们将非常稳定、准确的原子钟装在定期飞行的喷气式班机上。 来自辞典例句
v.发泄;报复
  • She had a burning desire to wreak revenge.她复仇心切。
  • Timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle.怯懦的人总是把满腹牢骚向温和的人发泄。
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。
adv.同时发生地,同时进行地
  • The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
  • The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。
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。
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
学英语单词
A'ana-i-Sisifo Dist.
administered channel systems
aftemoon
analytically unramified
au jus
Baker,Josephine
be put away
bodement
breakdown law
brezova pod bradlom
C.L.C.
call one's shots
chondroitin-6-sulfaturia
chrystie
circuit noise
cleaning cock
column reflux
commercial treaties
compulsive
concentration work
concrete bucket
Congo red
coq
cotton manufacturing
cozey
Crozier
cruising formation and disposition
cytoplasmic male sterilty
deion
device reserve
dried-air drier
edrophonium
engage in all kinds of foreign exchange operations
engineer's alarm system
exact endomorphism
external upset tubing thread
field-testing
fluorescent paint
gamma chain marker allotype
get buck
high-permeability
homing type rotary switch
houffalize
hound's tongue
indirect offer
inlet time
job assessment
Kerkonkoski
Kiruruma
Koorawatha
laser transmitter
lateral line canal
Leahy screen
load cable
lyric theater
material tower
micrometer with dial indicator
multiphase pcm
non-sine
oleum amygdalae amarae
Onosma hookeri
Order of Canada
over-head driving
parallel middlebody volume
patriate
pemudas
penzler
photoelectron device
pietsch
play-theory
postponement survey
proeusternum
rasyn
reagent desorption
reamer-bolt
remote sensing data
resistance unit
reticulate sphere
ricardian economy
Roddick
special weave
sportsome
St-Amand
steel stiffener
storm tide gate
strain-hardening strength
surface heating
swordman
syndrome of deficiency of liver yang
system of crystallization
tactical message switching
TCPD
tension dryer
testosterones
tissue storage by refrigeration
unelecting
unramified prime ideal
valence nucleon
VdB
veis
weatherlurch
welding time