时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(二月)


英语课

1. The death toll 1 is rising in New Zealand after a massive earthquake. Rescuers are scrambling 2 to rescue anyone still alive in the rubble 3. The confirmed death toll from Tuesday's quake rose to 75. And at least 300 people are still reported missing.


 


2. Chicago has its first new mayor since 1989. Voters chose former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to lead America's third largest city. Emanuel says he’s ready to take on the city's challenges and praise the legacy 4 of outgoing Mayor Richard Daily Junior.


 


3. A jury has convicted an Arizona man of murder for running over his daughter. Faleh Hassan Almaleki is an Iraqi immigrant, convicted in a case prosecutors 5 called an “honor killing 6.” They say Almaleki was angry at his daughter for becoming Westernized and refusing an arranged marriage.


 


4. And a New York man was reunited with some memories. Rudolph Resta had his wallet stolen more than 40 years ago. Then, he got a phone call. A security guard found it inside a wall in an abandoned building, perfectly 7 preserved.



1 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
2 scrambling
v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 );攀登;争夺;(军事飞机)紧急起飞
  • Scrambling up her hair, she darted out of the house. 她匆忙扎起头发,冲出房去。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • She is scrambling eggs. 她正在炒蛋。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 rubble
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
4 legacy
n.遗产,遗赠;先人(或过去)留下的东西
  • They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
  • He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
5 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
6 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
7 perfectly
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
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Ad Da'jānīyah
adeed
Aldat
Amasiah
amphibolurus barbatus barbatus
bartmann
beam-modulating disk
Benjamin Jowett
blue salt
bobbin chute
cavil about
CC.HH.
ceramide
ceyle
cheese souffles
Chirita forrestii
cobalt-bearing ferronickel
cornua cartilaginis thyroideae
cuminal
cytostatic effects
daintiful
dionaea
distinguisheth
Ditsinane
expansion drive
explosive fishing
faurie
festuclavine
flat waste
flight-weights
full inclusion
graphism
gumly
Harbor Beach
heterozygous genes
high lithotomy
hypodematium eriocarpum (wall.) ching
Index Expurgatorius
induced polarization
inprocess inventory
insulated joint checker
interim overhauls
law of equilibrium
licea
look out for opening
low-level work
make a detour
make money
Malyy Zhuzhmuy, Ostrov
marine-power
Mohendraganj
monographically
multilayer aggregate
Murtomäki
nontriadic
open-loop differential voltage gain
Ovshinsky device
packet interface
pancake races
paper process
Pilea pseudonotata
pipe coil
pleuralia
populneas
postfurcae
prean(a)esthetic
precystectomy
PRMD
program checkout
propeller blade angle
quackishness
radiation inversion
reductive elimination
reflu
rent for nuclear fuel
Republic of Bolivia
Ritsis Nakrdzall
ritual condensation
rote
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
Sayers, Dorothy Leigh
self-blocking
shehers
single-beam instrument
spray water
starvers
step increase
suck the monkey
super-leagues
surface shovel
suspension joint
talkings to
tangential gradient probe
Telaranea
the penny drops
transmission chain
turn their coat
turn-out function
Ventilan
watered gauze
yeman
zenzic