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


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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
american institute of nutrition
armepavine
associate with sb
automatic fault isolation test
bee moth
block indicator
cahuilla
Crista supraventricularis
Cumbres Mayores
Cuneometatarsal
data link switching
decay constant
deterministic context-free grammar
differential flapron
discern'd
Distoma sibiricum
enclosed phase
ending activity
equilibrium as saturation
evaporative refrigeration
event periodic autocorrelation
extension splint
fiber cable
filicology
fluidizing air system
foot level
formation productivity
foxfield
genetic isolate population
gobioids
going up
gortynians
growing zone
high-duty iron
hydric acid
Iggesund
ilzite
incidental education
income and expenditure account
Indigofera cassioides
indo china dollar
interests and hobbies
invalidated
invito
kanaan
Karmathians
land degradation
limbus alveolaris
linen finish
lollipop men
longitudinal velocity
love set
main transverse bulkhead
make good a deficiency
measurability attribute
mediaeval dancing in england
Menchik-Stevenson, Vera Francevna
mixed processing on-line access
modalize
mu-circuit
multi-party line
newholmes
noise protection
nonvariegated
observatorio
onychia simplex
orra
platform security
plausible inference
pletzel
pollinastanol
position encoder
posterior fixation suture
ramp excursion
repeat pairing
roineck
rubber plug
rupture point
scolytuss
scroticles
self-adaptive interface
servo-computing element
Short Dated Forwards
smoking gun
start of track control
storing water tillage
stress-resistance
stump plant
sud settler
sulrataxanthin
sun opal
Sābi R.
tanists
Taurine-Sanye
time-sharing display terminal session manager
two-phase short circuit and ground fault
ultra baby beef
underwhelmingly
weakly mixing automorphism
Wetz
zero delay lockout
Zwanck's pessary