时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(五)月


英语课
1. In the Midwest, it's a data pickup 1 after violent weather marked by tornadoes 2. In Arkansas, seven people are dead, pushing this year's storm death toll 3 in the state to more than two dozen people. Meteorologists say more than 25 tornadoes may have touched down in the central U.S. in recent days.

2. In Portugal, church service is marking the anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance 4. The British girl vanished while on vacation here days before her fourth birthday. Authorities have named Madeleine's parents as suspects.


3. The Olympic torch arrives on the mainland of China, beginning its national tour. A tour organizers promise will be trouble-free. Protests and last-minute route changes haunted the torch during its international relay.


4. It's time for swimming in the Baltic Sea. So these swimmers took to the water at a balmy 48 degrees, chasing after a plastic duck. Back on land, an elephant used its trunk to spray water on spectators.


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. pickup: n.


The act or process of picking up


2. the Baltic Sea: n. 波罗的海


a sea that is part of the Atlantic Ocean and is surrounded by Denmark, Sweden, the Baltic States, and Poland


3. balmy: adj.


mild and pleasant



n.拾起,获得
  • I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。
n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
  • Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
  • Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
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14C
active wear
adjustment residual
aircraft skid
angina nosocomii
Anopheles culicifacies
anterolaterally
anthropeia
baker butte
big push theory of development
biomimicking
black rhino
boost and buck connection
breithauptite
brothel stompers
bulk transport
Caesalpinia enneaphylla
catholicizes
cladding failure
combustibility
commission on human rights
compressed propane
computer network attack
constring
contradirectional timing
days of the week
direct current ring
dryhanded
espnoic
expansion section
extrude tubes
ferrous castings
fire boss
foreign ion
fuel-switchable
full-scaler
General Conference
half wave voltage
Harford County
hose-reel
hundredweight (cwt)
hybridogenic
inconel
instructional strategies
intoxicates
jacketing
kaam
keys in
lacustrineplain
London season
meene
micro reciprocal degree
migrating plasticizer
milligramme-hour
minimum specific fuel consumption
montefiori
moonroof
nacnes
neva-
Nunamiut
nunships
offset deviation
oil-ring retainer
patball
Phasmatodea
policy option
ponfibrate
pornographization
porosimete
Pterocarpus indicus
Qin Jiushao
radial distribution feeder
Ranatra linearis
regression modeling
reserve seed
resolution theory
rubbling
Salix yuhuangshanensis
scum line
shielding surface
Ship Oil Pollution Risks
short-comings
shyPod
single feed
software evaluation and development module
spacing center punch
ST_thinking-dreaming-and-ideas_guesses-and-assumptions
steatomatous exostosis
systematology
taq DNA ligase
ten's place
text-image
thermodynamics of material with memory
traffic-management
tuberculids
TWBA
upper limb myotome
uroflowmeter
weightnormal
Wujiapingian Stage
xenarthal
youny female chicken