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。
学英语单词
achilleine
affection caused by summer-heat
Alpinia brevis
alveolar bone chisel
antisegregationist
Autrinic
biangular reflectance
bill for collection
boothoses
C.I.natural red 24
carcinoma of testis
chief web officer
chokebores
circular colony
club-ready
codominant gene pair
compound fabric
cook the books
cop-outs
corrugated steel wire
deconvolve
degenerated polyphase system
diego riveras
diffused junction photocell
draughting board
elastic-collision
electronic photo voltaic cell
environmental requirement
exacerbation of crisis
family Trachipteridae
Festuca sinomutica
formula writing
front-end fee
fusion penetration
gas flow recorder
gastral ridge
glandulae areolares
grampian mts.
green arrow
harmoko
heresiarches heinrichi
Hooper jig
Hung Nhan
i take it that
induced abortions
inter-arab
Kanchenjunga
kanyembo
knock at the door
knot type
land-conservation
legal person
long-wave band
look - up tables
Mahonia manipurensis
menstrual fluid
metapontums
milk filter
miter end
mycotoxicoses
new lease of life
nonwashing plate
nsd
off docking
output command data set
packed space
Pan-American Copyright Convention
Phlebotomus barroudi var. suilamensis
photoelectron spectrum
pipe adapter
poly 1-butene
protomodern
rea
reaction cylinder
receptor destroying enzyme
rejected name
rtss (random telegraph signals)
score a basket
scot and lot
scrapyll
seatstay
selenoproteomes
serve the hour
shooting the shit
silver finish sheet
single acting piston pump
sogen
Somovit
steam-jet stoker
structural realism
subtractive reduction
successive block and row overrelaxation
taximeter car
temporale fossa
thermoplastic
transderivational
tropic deadweight
tuning servomechanism
twist action
unciform bones
Västra Finlands Län
wollack