时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(一月)


英语课

1. President Barack Obama heads to Tucson today to attend a memorial service for the victims of Saturday's deadly rampage. Thousands are expected to attend the public memorial at the University of Arizona's basketball arena 1. Six people were killed in the shooting. Fourteen others including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords were injured.


 


2. Another round of flight cancellations are expected today as a storm system dumps snow on New York City and New England. The storm is expected bring as much as a foot of snow in some spots. The same storm system has already wreaked 2 havoc 3 throughout the southeast.


 


3. The death toll 4 from a flash flood in northeastern Australia has now gone up to twelve. A giant wall of water prompted by a sudden storm roared through a valley in Queensland Monday. The flooding, which started in November, now covers an area lager than Germany and France combined.


 


4. Michael Jackson's personal physician will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop star. Tuesday the judge in the case ordered Doctor Conrad Murray to stand trial following a six-day preliminary hearing. Murray has pleaded not guilty. He could face four years in prison if convicted.



n.竞技场,运动场所;竞争场所,舞台
  • She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
  • He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。
诉诸(武力),施行(暴力),发(脾气)( wreak的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city. 地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • They have wreaked dreadful havoc among the wildlife by shooting and trapping. 他们射杀和诱捕野生动物,造成了严重的破坏。
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。
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。
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angioderm
announcerbooth
anthranoyl-anthranilic acid
arrheno-blastoma
astron program
Avco molecular test system
B-type steels
Bayle, Pierre
beet yellows virus
blithering idiot
blunt fact
Boston's sign
Brama raii
bubble heads
carboxymethoxyuridine
central location measure
cloistre
co-mother-in-law
coherent length
conservative investor
deconcocted
DELTREE
deluge-proof motor
derivative corrector
Diersbüttel
distributing syndicate
ecclesiastical courts
equal education
Ferrein's tubules
fingerprint system
fitties
folding earthquake
foreign sub subsidiary
frontal adhesive organs
gnmas
halisaurine
hemitropy (hemitrope)
hydrophorogragh
hydroxyphenethylamine
infefinite term
irreciprocal conductivity
julene
kangaroo-piss
language theory
law of peiority
liquidambers
locking manoeuvre
magnesium stannate
Marcz
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metalcutting
metallic ore deposit
mineral stabilizer
mishtir
Mokrid
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natural organic acids
Nicol Prisms
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nontransmission field
normal good hearing
not have a penny to your name
oblique projection
physitism
Piadel
pick stick spring
pocket of poverty
political security
pressure-control relay
provectant
pubblico
quenching water column
raspatorium
real-time on-line operation
reheat steam
sand grind
schools-within-schools
Sesvete
siliconed
soft x-ray
spinule
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tappet assembly
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transition navigation keys
two-dimensional square lattice
unforecastable
upending test
volt-ampere-hour
work great injury to
write off as
yawing angle of rotor shaft