时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(五月)


英语课

1. Rescue and recovery work continues in Joplin, Missouri. Crews are combing areas they've already searched, hoping to find more survivors 1. Meantime a violent storm system continues to rumble 2 through the central part of the country.


 


2. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron promise to continue a military campaign against Moammar Gadhafi's forces in Libya. It's day two of Obama's visit to London where he became the first president to address the British parliament in Westminster Hall.


 


3. A Massachusetts jury has acquitted 3 Nancy Kerrigan's brother of manslaughter in the death of their 70-year-old father. But Mark Kerrigan was convicted of assault and battery for fighting with his dad. He faces a maximum of more than two years in prison.


 


4. And a person familiar with the investigation 4 into former Senator John Edwards' political dealings says he could be indicted 5 within days. Officials are looking into whether donations to Edwards' presidential campaign were spent to hide his affair.



1 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
2 rumble
n.隆隆声;吵嚷;v.隆隆响;低沉地说
  • I hear the rumble of thunder in the distance.我听到远处雷声隆隆。
  • We could tell from the rumble of the thunder that rain was coming.我们根据雷的轰隆声可断定,天要下雨了。
3 acquitted
宣判…无罪( acquit的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(自己)作出某种表现
  • The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
  • Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
4 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
5 indicted
控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
  • He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
学英语单词
aeropleustic
airborne sea and swell recorder
alpha ionization chamber
apyrogenetic
armatureaxle
arthrocele
avian leucosis complex
bichromate cells
bilaterally adjustable
bilge pump discharge pipe
bionematicidal
bogeyed
brotherism
C.P.S.
casbah
circular buffering
condenser cleaning equipment
converged fold
coralliocaris graminea
core material
core power distribution calculation
cornfield
costoxiphoid ligaments
cup shaped housing
cyanosite(cyanose)
cyclic control stick
d'or
defining variable
distributive shock
do your damnedest
dutchman's-pipes
economy - class syndrome
elfred
empirical coefficient of reunion
felce
filling process
fire resisting shaft
firm production function
furzeling
galganis
generalized hamming code
gib crane
globular thrombus
herba impia
high-priority record queue
ice sky
immoralistic
Impressio esophagea
incombined
interior dimension
international parcel
itsindrite
Kiseri
Kohila
Kulat, Gunung
limerence
lisira
longitudinal brace
marshy waste land
microassays
most-popular
naftifine
net export
nitrated polyglycerin
nondiscretionary
outroad
page device descriptor
palaeoryctid
pantomimic
phylembryogenetsis
Polyhymenophorea
powderedfuel
prolatively
promoting digestion
proportioning motor
pussies
put on the appearance of
Qala Daulat Khān
radioactiv
real estate pool
rheopecticity
RIV level (radio interference voltage level)
rotary cement kiln
Saussurea semilyrata
schlichting
scutellations
seal-in(electrical circuit)
seaworthinesses
settle accounts with
short-time fading
split bar
st-paul
stable distributions
Strumpell's disease
supplemental data
tip-awned variety
trouble-free disconnect
trunking loss
virginia cowslips
whip hammer
yickers
zwicks