时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课

 Todd: So, Alexandra you were talking about a hurricane. What hurricane were you talking about?


 
Alex: I was talking about Hurricane Andrew, and as I said before, it was a category 5 hurricane. I was not in the city when it came through, however I did come back about 24 hours later and the difference in the city was amazing. I was driving down in the morning and it was before sunrise. There was no lights south of maybe Brower county 1, which is the next county north of Miami. It was dark. Normally 2 when you travel on a highway, there's lights on either side. There's lights of the city,the buildings, the waterways. Everythings lit. It's very strange to drive down a city with the only lights being from your car and as I was getting closer to where I lived, there was no lights. You had to be careful. There were things in the street. We even had friends who kept driving past the street where they lived but didn't recognize it because everything had changed. There was, all the markers, the trees, buildings, had completely either been demolished 3, or just weren't there anymore. So I had one friend pass his street 3 times before he realized it was his street, so yeah, a lot of destruction 4, a lot of people were in shock.
 
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came through
 
I was not in the city when the hurricane came through.
 
In this example "came through" can be replaced with "passed through" or "passed from one side of the town to the other."  Notice the following:
 
She came through the office this morning on her way to a meeting.
I have never come through the city from this direction before.
recognize
 
Didn't recognize the street because everything had changed.
 
To 'recognize' a place or a person it is to identify it from memory or an image that you have seen. Notice the following:
 
Do you recognize where we are?
Wow!  You look great!  I didn't even recognize you with your new haircut.
marker
 
All the markers, the trees, buildings had been demolished.
 
An announcement or a sign is a 'marker' or an indicator 5 of a place to go.  Notice the following:
 
There is a marker next to the building.
They put up markers to lead people to the new location.
realize
 
Before he realized it was his street.
 
To 'realize' something is to comprehend 6 or recognize it.  Notice the following:
 
Do you realize what you are doing?
I didn't realize that I had gone the wrong way until I had driven for thirty minutes.
in shock
 
A lot of people were in shock.
 
If you are 'in shock' about something you are really surprised and sometimes unable to act because you are surprised.  You can be in shock over good or bad events.  Notice the following:
 
After the earthquake a lot of people were in shock from all the drama and destruction.  
She was in shock for a few days after she won the lottery 7.
 


n.县,郡
  • When the good news reached there,the whole county rejoiced.喜讯传到那里时,全县的人都欢欣鼓舞起来。
  • In that year county after county fell to the enemy.那一年一个又一个的县城沦入敌人手中。
adv.正常地,通常地
  • I normally do all my shopping on Saturdays.我通常在星期六买东西。
  • My pulse beats normally.我脉搏正常。
v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 );推翻;拆毁(尤指大建筑物);吃光
  • The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
  • They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来,为了不让拆除他们的房子,他们一直在进行最后的努力。
n.破坏,毁灭,消灭
  • The enemy bombs caused widespread destruction.敌人的炸弹造成大面积的破坏。
  • Overconfidence was his destruction.自负是他垮台的原因。
n.指标;指示物,指示者;指示器
  • Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
  • His left-hand indicator is flashing.他左手边的转向灯正在闪亮。
vt.了解,理解,领会
  • I did not comprehend his meaning.我不理解他的意思。
  • If you can use a word correctly and effectively,you comprehend it.你如果能正确和有效地使用一个字,你就了解它了。
n.抽彩;碰运气的事,难于算计的事
  • He won no less than £5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
  • They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。
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a string to it
accomodator
acetyisulfuric acid
actinocutitis
alternate attacks of chill and fever
amyoplasia
arbiter elegantiarum
at the expense of something
attainable state
auditory nerves
back carbon
bamboo borer
base-stealing
boom foot
carbanillide
Cerritos
cetenary restoring force
chancellor's court
Cheroh, Sungai
circular division tester
cribellar glands
crystallization's halo
demythification
discriminancy
double equilibrium static diagram
dusting rolls
enamel cells
Falcodus
fast reverse
fit over
generalized linear models
genus soleas
geoeconomicss
giornales
good prize
gorters
grey desert soil
hair-shirted
helmet camera
idler gear pump
inphase operation
internal iflue boiler
Kestrone
Kolahoi
korakuen
Kusters mangle
Langenbeck's nerve
larynxography
light ruby silver ore
linear conditions
mania mitis
mark of correlation
metabolic myopathy
meteorological
microphone current supply
microwave system
midfield diamond
monounsaturated
mud catcher
multi-variable control
ninety-sixth
nitrogen partition tests
nonmaterialistic
nuclear atom theory
Pawe-gyi Kyun
pharmaceutical purity
possible debts
pressure differential
price-cuttings
proper plantar digital nerve
Prostoma
Rabdosia enanderiana
radio-carbon
rate damping
regurgitants
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Salvia lankongensis
scintillation camera
sideburn
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summary instigation
sympetrum fonscolombii
takes after
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timeball
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toxotae
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USTV
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