时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

This is May 8th, thus   the 16 days since Sean Hannity volunteered to be waterboarded for a military families’ charity, thus 15 days since I offered to donate $1000 per second that he lasted, thus 14 days during which Sean Hannity has suffered the consequences of reneging on his promise. Let’s play Oddball.


 


To begin with a pretty scary scene outside an office building in St Paulo, Brazil. Thankfully, nobody got hurt on Wednesday when high winds caused the window-washing platform with two men inside it to swing violently. Office workers in the building watched in amazement 1 as an onlooker 2 in an adjacent building shot this footage. The men in the bucket tried grabbing onto the building to just slow their momentum 3 and the pendulum 4 effect going on. The platform eventually did slow down, sufficiently 5 for the men to crawl out and through an open and still dirty window, and left a few streaks 6.


 


Finally in Miami, Florida where God has appeared on some fried salami, not an image of God, mind you, the word. This video is from CBS’s Miami affiliate 7 WFOR. Nancy Simo says she’s about ready to plate the three salami slices when she turned over the first piece and saw the letter G then an O and finally a D in that order. Could have gone DOG. D could have been an O, would have made her discovery GOO, but Nancy has faith, took faith that the breakfast meat is a sign. She may consider selling her salami on Ebay, first there was the word, and the word was salami.




 



1 amazement
n.惊奇,惊讶
  • All those around him looked at him with amazement.周围的人都对他投射出惊异的眼光。
  • He looked at me in blank amazement.他带着迷茫惊诧的神情望着我。
2 onlooker
n.旁观者,观众
  • A handful of onlookers stand in the field watching.少数几个旁观者站在现场观看。
  • One onlooker had to be restrained by police.一个旁观者遭到了警察的制止。
3 momentum
n.动力,冲力,势头;动量
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
4 pendulum
n.摆,钟摆
  • The pendulum swung slowly to and fro.钟摆在慢慢地来回摆动。
  • He accidentally found that the desk clock did not swing its pendulum.他无意中发现座钟不摇摆了。
5 sufficiently
adv.足够地,充分地
  • It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
  • The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。
6 streaks
n.(与周围有所不同的)条纹( streak的名词复数 );(通常指不好的)特征(倾向);(不断经历成功或失败的)一段时期v.快速移动( streak的第三人称单数 );使布满条纹
  • streaks of grey in her hair 她头上的绺绺白发
  • Bacon has streaks of fat and streaks of lean. 咸肉中有几层肥的和几层瘦的。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
7 affiliate
vt.使隶(附)属于;n.附属机构,分公司
  • Our New York company has an affiliate in Los Angeles.我们的纽约公司在洛杉矶有一个下属企业。
  • What is the difference between affiliate and regular membership?固定会员和附属会员之间的区别是什么?
学英语单词
a-ammon
aggravated
amount of work given out
analytic quadratic differential
antiwhip
aperture of mirror
asphalt lacquer
aswarms
basic field
beam control
bricklayer's cleaver
broad-bean plants
bumside
bunching parameter of a klystron
Carcharhininae
ceiling stuck
Chabahar
color-copy
congenital salt diarrhea
cut the price
dashcam
design unit
distance receiver
Emilia sonchifolia
exocet missile
fluoroforms
French canon
general-purpose relay
genus Necturus
genus strixes
gerontocratia
glass reinforced plastic boat
good deal
guajacum officinale
Haast R.
HCLIP
helobial endosperm
hen louse
hidden dumping
hydrochore
i-bunden
ICRF-154
inlet flow angle
kheda(h)
kiriwina i.
Knapp's forceps
La Cuevita
letters-to-the-editor
lev-
load limiting type of constant filling fluid coupling
magnet slab turning crane
methwold
Microsoft Management Console
mozz
nier-type mass spec-trometer
nonestablished
nonstochastic effects
nose of pearlite
oecumence
Olc.
omphalomesenteric
Palestinianisation
peek-a-boo bras
Peucedanum terebinthaceum
pile driver lead
pinkness
pneumatic positioner valve
power-factor measurement
predator-prey oscillation
radeks
rayleigh-willis formula
reentrant programming
requirement language system
running surface expansion joint
secular consumption
shelf facies
single side-band suppressed carrier
snippers
sodium calciotantite
soundablest
stochastic algorithm
style of life
surface matching
tadpole (pl. taeniae) (taenia )
take lightly
teotitecan
thiazole dyes
thoman
Tololar
towelling gown
truck-tire remover
TSS editing
tummelberries
Umarkhed
varahs
venditive
volcani
washer-woman
Waverley Glacier
weary of
whimper
your marbles