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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anaeon
azidoacridine
belt scale
brake pull rod
Bronaber
butoform
carucate
case off
chronic idiopathic jaundice
chronic-care
circular interpolation
come around
congressane
contractual liability
coplanar stress
cortinarius mutabiliss
counting-house
crowdcasting
customer development
dance to someone's tune whistle
data set retirement
debt limit
deformity of nose
drag folds
Dumbraveni
dustifit
E-P interlocking machine
Elaeagnus oxycarpa
examination for credit
expanding product
familiarity with
Financial Times Stock Indices
five irons
fluidizable
foreign tourist
gallabias
Garda
gaussage
gene splicing
gramme-reontgen
haematocytometer
Harley Granville-Barker
Higher bid
hypnan
i-hudde
incentive operator
indentwise
invariant hypothesis
ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes mellitus
lexical analyzer
low storied building
low-altitude extraction (lae)
mass energy absorption coefficient
mcnelis
meroquinolamide
metaprocess
midway islandss
morituri
Multistage Dividend Discount Model
nodal pattern
ormosia (ormosia) diversipennis
patient zero
phencyclidine hydrochloride
plain draw mold
polytaxic ocean
poota
potassiferous
Pritzker Prize
public coercion
Radnorshire
rained down
rapid access memory
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resource energy
restricted oil passage
sag compensation
Saint Teresa of Avila
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scorey
semihermetically sealed condensing unit
smalti
snare
statement of operating earnings
stenthermal
Swan, Joseph Wilson
testamentary will
the lost-and-found
thermal reforming
thermodynamic entropy
thermophilic organism
threshold
tiro
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tragal muscle
trikalsilite
TV programme
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whoreship
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