时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:新概念英语词汇随身听手册2


英语课

Lesson 62 After the fire


New words and expressions:


1. control


Firemen had been fighting the forest fire for nearly three weeks before they could get it under control.


The situation was out of control.


Parents should not have control over their children.


2. smoke


Now, smoke still rose up from the warm ground over the desolate 1 hills.


The room was full of choking smoke.


The huge fire sent dense 2 smoke up to the sky.


3. desolate


The railway station became desolate in the war.


They changed the desolate land into a prosperous town.


4. threaten


Winter was coming on and the hills threatened the surrounding villages with destruction, for heavy rain would not only wash away the soil but would cause serious floods as well.


He threatened to kidnap her child.


The flood threatened thousands of lives.


5. surrounding


The valley and its surrounding scenery are fascinating.


The surrounding country took on a new look.


6. destruction


The earthquake caused the destruction of the city.


The advanced weapons increased the destruction of war.


7. flood


It (The village) was stricken by a heavy flood.


Food and clothes were sent to the flood-stricken areas.


8. authority


When the fire had at last been put out, the forest authorities ordered several tons of a special type of grass-seed which would grow quickly.


The school authorities laid down (to lay down制定法规) some new rules and regulations.


The local authorities attached great importance to the event.


9. grass-seed


Grass-seed is expensive.


A lot of grass-seed was frozen and made useless during the winter.


10. spray


The seed was sprayed over the ground in huge quantities by aeroplanes.


Vegetables are sprayed.


The workers were spraying paint on the wall.


11. quantity


Large quantities of goods were damaged in the storm.


Yesterday’s typhoon brought a great quantity of rain.


12. root


By then, however, in many places the grass had already taken root.


Many trees were pulled up by the roots.


Vegetation in the desert usually has deep roots.


13. century


In place of the great trees which had been growing there for centuries, patches of green had begun to appear in the blackened soil.


The 20th century witnessed many great changes in China.


This ancient city was deserted 3 for centuries.


14. patch


They toiled 4 on the small patch of land.


There is a patch of garden in front of the house.


15. blacken


Their faces were blackened by the smoke.


Smoking blackened his fingers.


Lesson 63 She was not amused


New words and expressions:


1. circle


Jeremy Hampden has a large circle of friends and is very popular at parties.


This is a close family circle.


He is a famous figure in the cultural circle.


2. admire


Everybody admires him for his great sense of humor — everybody, that is, except his six-year-old daughter, Jenny.


I admire his sense of humor.


His co-workers admire his capacity for work.


3. close


Recently, one of Jeremy’s closest friends asked him to make a speech at a wedding reception.


The two countries have established close relations.


They are in close contact with each other.


4. wedding


He prepared the speech carefully and went to the wedding with Jenny.


The wedding ceremony will take place next Sunday.


They exchanged the wedding rings.


5. reception


They held a reception for the new CEO.


They arranged a farewell reception for John, who had been transferred to the head office.


6. sort


This is the sort of thing that Jeremy loves.


He is not the sort of man to commit such a cruel crime.


This hardware store sells different sorts of tools.



1 desolate
adj.荒凉的,荒芜的;孤独的,凄凉的;v.使荒芜,使孤寂
  • The city was burned into a desolate waste.那座城市被烧成一片废墟。
  • We all felt absolutely desolate when she left.她走后,我们都觉得万分孤寂。
2 dense
a.密集的,稠密的,浓密的;密度大的
  • The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。
  • The path was completely covered by the dense foliage. 小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。
3 deserted
adj.荒芜的,荒废的,无人的,被遗弃的
  • The deserted village was filled with a deathly silence.这个荒废的村庄死一般的寂静。
  • The enemy chieftain was opposed and deserted by his followers.敌人头目众叛亲离。
4 toiled
长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的过去式和过去分词 ); 艰难缓慢地移动,跋涉
  • They toiled up the hill in the blazing sun. 他们冒着炎炎烈日艰难地一步一步爬上山冈。
  • He toiled all day long but earned very little. 他整天劳碌但挣得很少。
学英语单词
alumina carbon brick
AOB
aralia cordata
audio-out
billberry
break stow the hold
break-even-chart
BrWg
butterfishes
catachosis
china customs
chowtering
circulation pump of heat-supply network
coarse-wooled sheed
coffee fern
coordinate multiplexing circuit
critical quantity
cushion rubber
D-Est
dahlia
dailyness
deflection limiter
dental decay
doughnut coil
DSC meter
dynamic electron optics
eletroencephalograph
emperador
Euriowie
expand production capacity
eye-service
feed sb to the lions
fern palm
fire-spark arrester
foam inhibitor for crude oil
gemistocytic astrocytoma
genus Difflugia
green electron gun
guide beam
guiding jetty
hekistotherm
hoof trimming
hunger is the best spice
impedance standard
inner chill
intermyotomic space
katjas
kraynak
La Croix-St-Leufroy
lampbrushes
less insurance
light code
liquidus curve
lo-tech
molehills
narrative dance
nocardia
one-way atmospheric transmittance
ore-seeking
Ostfriesland(East Friesland)
outside helix
overpowdered
palpal coxa
persuades
pet insurance
photosensitivity
picosat
Priboy
print-magazine
PSB-nonBF
PSTVD
puggry
put salt on a bird's tail
Pylorid
radiant state
radiotherapy apparatus
read time
recovery of low temperature irradiation damage
Richvald
risqueness
role-models
run ragged
sageys
sediment storage dam
self-scanning checkout
semi-solid state
Shinamwenyuli
Solnechnogorsk
spectral ratio
static electric fire
stimulated-emission device
Suong
tangata
theory of general interdependence
throttling valve (pneumatic)
thyselves
toffee-nosed
total inspection
travel-retail
two hundred and nineteen
wdnc
whale-oil