时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(一月)


英语课

In Haiti, a powerful aftershock sent Haitians into the streets, cracking roads and adding to the nation's trauma 1. The magnitude-5.9 jolt 2 matched the strongest of the aftershocks that came after the huge quake that devastated 3 the capital Port-au-Prince.


     The Republican, taking over for the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat, says he is heading to Washington soon. Scott Brown gives the GOP the 41st vote they need to sustain a filibuster 4, potentially blocking the president's health care bill.


     The so-called White House "Gate Crashers" take the Fifth, with officials wanting to know how this couple made it through security into a state dinner. But the Salahis are not talking to a congressional committee, invoking 5 their right against self-incrimination.


      A California man was all set to open his new strip club. Now he has some cleaning-up to do. A 150-pound goat smashed its way into the club and incident's all caught on tape.



1 trauma
n.外伤,精神创伤
  • Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
  • The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
2 jolt
v.(使)摇动,(使)震动,(使)颠簸
  • We were worried that one tiny jolt could worsen her injuries.我们担心稍微颠簸一下就可能会使她的伤势恶化。
  • They were working frantically in the fear that an aftershock would jolt the house again.他们拼命地干着,担心余震可能会使房子再次受到震动。
3 devastated
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的
  • The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
  • His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
4 filibuster
n.妨碍议事,阻挠;v.阻挠
  • A senator dragged the subject in as a filibuster.一个参议员硬把这个题目拉扯进来,作为一种阻碍议事的手法。
  • The democrats organized a filibuster in the senate.民主党党员在参议院上组织了阻挠议事。
5 invoking
v.援引( invoke的现在分词 );行使(权利等);祈求救助;恳求
  • You can customise the behavior of the Asynchronous Server and hence re-brand it by defining your own command set for invoking services. 通过定义自己调用服务的命令集,您可以定制自定义异步服务器的行为,通过为调用服务定义自己的命令集从而对它重新标记。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • You can customize the behavior of the Asynchronous Server and hence re-brand it by defining your own command set for invoking services. 通过定义自己调用服务的命令集,您可以定制自定义异步服务器的行为,通过为调用服务定义自己的命令集从而对它重新标记。 来自辞典例句
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学英语单词
acclimatation
accoutre
acicular grey cast iron
adjusted gross estate
aestuans
alkylation reaction
all a treat
ano lekhonia
antifertilizin
area curve
aroon
atod
auto-casting
Basle Concordat
buzbee
capacity formula
ceruleolactite
chlorbromide
chrome mordant process
chromium(v) oxide
classload
classroom communicator
close junction
croceate
cryotrimming
deseeders
detoured train
diethyl thiobarbituric acid
Dillon R.
dwelling unit
ectasiae ventriculi
efficient allocation
erythrosine b
esophageal smears
fashion forecasting
feed water filter
fibrillating fibre
fixed discharger
flour-
functional repair
gables
genus Echinocactus
goods which sell well
Hi-K
holy clover
hopkins process
hot tinning
inessential error entry
inorganic chromatography
interactive programme
isoentropic expansion
keraphylloceles
kitchen car
knot/knots
Lombrosian
London School of Economics and Political Science
longitudinal profile analyzer
lukeville
man-like
Marsiliales
mastoids
milk pan
moisture content control
molecular energy
Monoket
morning room
neologises
parallel chains
partial molal work content
pawners
peepers in mourning
perma-youth
physalis philadelphicas
plunger pitman
pop-in/pop-out
positive emission
power amplifier device
pressure multiplier
religious cults
resources limitation model
retention finger
Ribena
RLLE
Rosa Parks
Sauzet
Scott Pt.
sergant
sleeper steel mould
soul-less
static hysteresis
stern draft
storage management strategy
Surguja Dist.
tongued and grooved flange
U-tube
unimix
unit gain
unrepeatable read
vaisnavisms
weed oil
were in a position
westward movement