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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'urt
a political
a-gicky
abdicable
acetyl-glucosamine
Aetolian League
AFWC
anaerobic treatment
annualcapacity
ASCII standard character set
batch extruder
Bedanda
Belgian waffle
bevel gearing
bijur
bleeding dry
Brodmann, Korbinian
capiures
chacon c.
class maintenance certificate
class settling
colour mixture computer
counterrevolutionary criminal
currijong
cylinder bottom gasket
degenerate distribution
delay tripping
Diapangou
differential yield
diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus(vaccine)
drip flake
driveway
efficiency of sieve plate
Ethernet card
family mutillidaes
federal labor relations authority (flra)
Fieldbus Systems
flickingeria parietiformis
for the hell of it
frisian is. (friesische inseln)
fully loaded arrival
gene therapist
Gleditsia sinensis poisoning
hbhs
high diving
instillation
Insurance Piss
isoflavones
job-entry system
judicial order
keep one's weather weath-eye open
kyroscopy
large face machine
laser target recognition system
Lasia
leading edge vortex lift
Lofty, Mt.
Macfarquhar, Colin
manoplania
manual answering
masseurs
mechanical characteristic
mediterranean agriculture
noie
non-repudiations
oil cylinder of shutter
orthophyll
oscar-winnings
perlmutter opal (cacholong)
plain end tube
Polyarnyye Zori
pre-drawing process
prototype project
pseudoelement
Pueraria peduncularis
pundit
radiation from fission
recarbonises
record type entry
resonance sharpness
rough-leaved
rubidium-strontium dating
san feliu de llobregat
sat still
sedimentary mantle
shipyard floating crane
side mounted condenser
spent fuel store
spicatus Ophipogon
subconjunctival hemorrhage
substandard parts
surface drift
swarths
tissue homogenate
variable-interval
Virtual Loadable Module
wing resistance
WireShark
woodward synthesis of array
xiaoyu
Xylaria polymorpha
yaaay