时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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The next morning, Adam turned on the radio. The fire had spread to 350 acres, and 550 homes had been evacuated 2. More than 400 fire fighters were busy in the foothills. The winds had really picked up overnight. Fire officials declared that the fire was only five percent contained. They said it might take four to seven days to fully 3 contain the fire.


Adam walked outside with his binoculars 4. Helicopters and four-engine tankers 5 were flying over the burn area, dropping water and fire retardant. He could see lots of thick smoke just a couple of miles north of his apartment building. He could hear the sirens of fire engines. All the cars on the street were dusted with soot 6.


Adam's brother called from a nearby city. “Are you going to have to evacuate 1?” he asked Adam. Adam said if they told everyone to evacuate, he would just put his laptop in his car and drive over to stay with his brother. Adam was amazed at how huge and menacing the fire had gotten in less than 24 hours. He hoped that the winds would die down soon; this situation was a little scary. Just a couple of embers flying southward could result in hundreds of homes, including his own, burning down. He did not want his home to be on the five o’clock news.


 



1 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
2 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
3 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
4 binoculars
n.双筒望远镜
  • He watched the play through his binoculars.他用双筒望远镜看戏。
  • If I had binoculars,I could see that comet clearly.如果我有望远镜,我就可以清楚地看见那颗彗星。
5 tankers
运送大量液体或气体的轮船[卡车]( tanker的名词复数 ); 油轮; 罐车; 油槽车
  • They should stop offloading waste from oil tankers into the sea. 他们应当停止从油轮上往海里倾倒废弃物。
  • The harbour admits large tankers and freighters. 这个港口容得下巨型油船和货轮。
6 soot
n.煤烟,烟尘;vt.熏以煤烟
  • Soot is the product of the imperfect combustion of fuel.煤烟是燃料不完全燃烧的产物。
  • The chimney was choked with soot.烟囱被煤灰堵塞了。
学英语单词
abortive enterprise
air-dried condition
allithiamin
almandine zone
analyphoscope
Australian Brangus
automomous system navigator
bark shaving face
barometric draft control
bentone base grease
bring to rights
camlet
capacity of carriage
casing collapsed
chemical catalysis
Chrome Web browser
claims adjustors
class arachnidas
cleine
cluelessness
composite card
corticosteroid treatment
cumaean
cypress vines
D. G.
deenas
deeppink
dentifrical
emergency overflow
engine room tank
Eric Blair
examined cross-section of goods
Facpi Pt.
ferrous ion
flavobacteriosis
flux copper backing method(fcb)
foam retention
fraks
genus Melolontha
geometrically regular
get laid
Goodnews R.
Hartree-Fock limit
hemispheric sulcus
high sea fishery
hip and staple
Holarrhena congolensis
iliac crest height
incidence plane
Ingwezi Dam
intermediate rating
Jablah
karakul
laser heterodyne system
longissimus capitis
loughlinite
NE by E
nonminer
oleochrysotherapy
overdare
packhouse
pantdress
PCB fine piecing systems
phosphocholine transferase
plastic wood
political conservative
posterior intermediate sac (or posterior thoracic sac)
printing baseline
private views
production control routine
protrusive balance
Quercus laurifolia
radiation incidents
raphide
re-thinks
resulting integer
rhynchotechum discolor isum
riprap breakwater
sale on good merchantable quality
sb's name is mud
scrippss
seal face
sebastian vizcainoes
semi-streamlined
showers
simple assault
single-place
slag coating
Slavicize
small charge
staked platform station
swansboroughs
tax due
toilet facility
tolerant to drought
tuberculous ulceration
user exit
vectorship
vincie
watchshide
widely-used