时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(九)月


英语课

1. Hurricane Gustav is quickly losing its punch after plowing 1 through south Louisiana's fishing and oil industry.The National Hurricane Center downgraded the storm to a Category 1 with 90-mile-an-hour winds.


2. Hurricane Gustav is sending water rushing up and over New Orleans' Industrial Canal's floodwall.But city officials and the Army Corps 2 of Engineers say they expect the levees will hold. Half of the streets closest to the canal are flooded,some places knee-deep.


3.The McCain campaign says Vice 3 Presidential candidate Sarah Paliln's unmarried daughter is five-month pregnant.A campagin statement says Bristol Palin will keep her baby due in late December and marry the child's father.(这里的v和p也可以小写)


4. And Vladimir Putin paid a visit to a Russian wildlife preserve. The tough-talking prime minister shot a female tiger with a tranquilizer gun after it had freed itself from a restraint. But it's all for a good cause.The program tracks rare tigers like this one.


WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online


1.rush vi.
To flow or surge rapidly, often with noise: Tons of water rushed over the falls.


2.due adj.
Expected to give birth.


 



v.耕( plow的现在分词 );犁耕;费力穿过
  • "There are things more important now than plowing, Sugar. "如今有比耕种更重要的事情要做呀,宝贝儿。 来自飘(部分)
  • Since his wife's death, he has been plowing a lonely furrow. 从他妻子死后,他一直过着孤独的生活。 来自辞典例句
n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组
  • The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
学英语单词
a hole in the road
allophore
alosa sapidissimas
amphemera
amphistomus
arranged marriage
auxiliary connecting rod
avidnesses
bachelorize
barettite
basal metabolic rates
base collections
Bir el Ater
bosnia-hercegovina
breathing devices
CACOM
cawny
cefamandole
chaetomers
cislunar space
Come-et-St-Front
commutator vee-ring
Corynebacterium necrophorum
cum guzzla
dead axle
diverticulectomies
double drum system boiler
electric spark machine
excursions
exit pupil aperture angular
extensor muscle of little finger
failure-density
first-borns
foliar
fossilifies
gold coin standard
grain blower
ground waves
hand square passes
haos
hard copper wire
haw-tree
Hayashi Shihei
image transfer constant
inductively ordered set
indudablemente
James II
Kushchëvskiy Rayon
law reviews
LBWR
lead oxide vidicon
lenticular cata
level to the ground
live under the cat's paw
Llandeilian
loam brick
Lulimba
matrimonial tort
monaural receiver
mullion
musty grain
nervi heamorrhoidales medii
nollow brick
orbicularais oris muscle
orbitomaxillary
pararosaniline hydrochloride
Parasenecio bulbiferoides
penelope canvas
Phaeodarea
phase delay difference frequency
Pinellia integrifolia
plant climate
platinum base alloy
pole changing relay
poststorm
prescriptive policy analysis
prof.s
randomisings
recombination-generation center
Rekovac
scheme comparison
scissor door
Scotch arguses
sensory quality
shallowness
sintered wear resistant material
stenopterobia intermedia
stereoscopics
store form key
Stryn
table-ware disinfection
technical supervision of management
throttle washer
time-temperature function
tonsorially
Tracoba
triphenyl antimony
tundra community
turtle shell comb
valve-in-head
waht
whitelash