时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2011(三月)


英语课

1. Libyan rebels are advancing once again toward the country's capital after seizing control of two major oil terminals from Moammar Gadhafi's military. A week ago, rebels appeared on the verge 1 of defeat in their efforts to oust 2 Gadhafi, but international air strikes have tipped the balance.


 


2. Emergency workers at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex are struggling to remove radioactive water from a reactor 3 that is testing 100,000 times above normal. Tokyo Electric Power originally reported that radiation levels were ten-million times above normal but later issued an apology and the correction.


 


3. An Athens Georgia police officer has been laid to rest just two days after the suspect in his death surrendered on live television. Elmer Christian 4 was gunned down last Tuesday as he tried to question 33-year-old Jamie Hood 5 in connection with a recent carjacking and kidnapping.


 


4. Several New York news outlets 6 say the single winning ticket from Friday's Mega Millions lottery 7 belongs to a group of state workers. The ticket was purchased at this convenience store near the Capitol and it's worth 319 million dollars.



1 verge
n.边,边缘;v.接近,濒临
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
2 oust
vt.剥夺,取代,驱逐
  • The committee wanted to oust him from the union.委员会想把他从工会中驱逐出去。
  • The leaders have been ousted from power by nationalists.这些领导人被民族主义者赶下了台。
3 reactor
n.反应器;反应堆
  • The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
  • Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里,大分子裂变为小分子。
4 Christian
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
5 hood
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖
  • She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
  • The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
6 outlets
n.出口( outlet的名词复数 );经销店;插座;廉价经销店
  • The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
7 lottery
n.抽彩;碰运气的事,难于算计的事
  • He won no less than £5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
  • They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。
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学英语单词
a six
alkali flats
animal head applique holding rings
artillery wheels
Asiatic beetle
Association Belgedes Assurer Maritimes
astatic couple of magnests
balance wire
ballygrants
base ... on
basic ideas program
be the pits
bisenamines
boime
Bonanza Creek
bothrion
brandenburgs
breach of law
bright current density range
bulthaup
burn resistant magnesium alloy
bush lawyer
call-by-value
Canada ginger
character store
Chelsea FC
chromophobic adenoma
collapsible form
Cortilet
date of disbursement
defruiting
derived value
dinitrogen reductase
egg insulator
emulsio menthae piperitae
end cell
endless belt peener
enlarging
floating seedling
fluid coking-gasification
gamma-exposure chamber
general biology
genethon
genus phthorimaeas
internal potential energy
Jupiter mass
kraft process, kraft pulping
leak valve
loizou
machine gun belt
MAXCOLS
metatarsal arteries
microcomputer reset command
miscellaneous charge
monoreduction
mouth disease
MR (maintenance review)
mucherus
mummeite
musculus retractor arcus branch. dors.
muskyl
Necessity has no law
non-elites
normal students
notch sensitive
odoriferous herbs
ofyou
Olyutorskiy
organized market
oxidizing potential
oxygen inhalator
paper filler
pattern recognition of remote sensing
pedware
penn'orth
perceptible acuity
pipe expander
placental sinus
priapulid
psychrokling
public director
rectal administration
relative unit
Rhenania phosphate
salmonid
sclerecto-iridectomy
set goal
Sibayi, L.
signal code book
sneak circuit analysis
soft-shoe dancings
solid retainer
southernish
stringer lug
switchgear & MCC module
take care tonight
tracheobronchial foreign body
transition flow
varices of fundus of stomach
ventilation by ducts
westbound
work-first