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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Acciano
advance report
alcala de guadaira
aminohexanoic acid
anacoustic
ansia
bacterial inflammation
bar-crested antshrikes
beat upon
Bensonian
block applied method
bog spavins
Bolvanskiy Nos, Mys
border paragraphs
braided cord
breathable film
cabstands
canvas filter
Casa de Janos
caudad epididymidis
CFE
chestnut coal
Company Law of the Peoples Republic of China
cornua cervi degelatinatum
damaging flux
dependent symbols
digonal carbon
directory information tree
domoikic
Dresdner Bank
elastic circular sandwich beam
electronic bearing cursor
elevator surfer
energy occurrence
entheseal
enzas
fent
fimbriatest
financial class
flame cleaning
floating garden
fluorine isotope
gastrohepatitis
gun lobbies
haul around
hymnus
hypereccrisia
incomplete entry
internal transport instruction
job-controls
key of reference
kuchean dialects
lasgun
leather dyes
line of saturation
lower palaeolithic
luteotroph
magneto-operated oil valve
masuku
MCMLXXXIV
morillo
morningview
muzzle energies
no - par stock
noisette 2 (rose)
nominal hygiene air requirement
normal fibre
Noventa di Piave
Oberland
offshore well
oil tester
parasite immunology
peat bank
periplasmically
piquero
polycrystalline cell
proconvertin
prolacta
remanded
rhombic steel plate
riser pad
Rocca Sinibalda
schizophyllan
sinking fund accumulation
snowfall
stenosis of common bile duct
stimulatory organs
stramonium leaf
submarginal nervue
sulfate process
sulphurity
superordinate word
Synadenium
topsets
unvoluntarily
urinary diversion
water injection profile
well-bucket
wintka
workups
world geographic reference system
yellow sandal