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
afterglow compensation
Allium sinensis G. Don.
auriculoventricular septum
automatic testing machine
Bahasa Indonesia
basinal carbonate
Behla's bodies
borenius
boron-filled ionization chamber
Boukra
callbox
calorimetric diagnostics
capacitive touch screen
chinchilla weave
Chinese ephedra root
Cobaltochrompicotite
court seized of the case
cross country race
cultural features
cytotropal
direct trust
discorporate
done with
endangerment
extraction plant
ferromagneto-elastic
fixed cost contract
four-line
geared inclinable crank press
gofferings
grease compounder
houseware
huntcliffs
hydrologic feature
hypochristian
i love my family
indirect reduction
initial expression indicator
inner shell excitation
isolated storm
job block
keratocan
Krogager
laminated thick skin grafting
Leninskiy
Ligamentum metatarsale transversum profundum
light-induction
lunanaut
minacious
mountain country
mucoid atrophy
myristylbenzylmorphine
naphthol colour dyeing machine
neuro-surgeries
opposed pistons
orthico
oxodelavaine
pathological connection
perisarc
pestilentness
petit battement
Petromus
pilot plant work
POOL2
post-contouring
pourig basin
prassoite (palladseite)
preliminary notices to mariners
present value of expected cash flow
public expression
punch reproducer
raftery
rational trend
reading prism
reset phrase
rhizosphere bacterial
sabotage on
sailfin
scale dowm
Scofield
Sejournet process
single-line tariff
solid pitch
south mountain
splendide
stigmatic shield
suffruticose
super turnstile radiator
surahi
tail package sling
technosociety
Tennesseans
three-day sickness
transistor checker
tunica adventitia (ureteris)
underprescribing
vesical surface
villey
vinylated alkyd resin
weeted
yes-man, yesmen
zygoneure