时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(十一月)


英语课

1. Holiday travelers are moving smoothly 1 through security checkpoints Thursday before thanksgiving. That’s despite threats of massive protest that could have snarled 2 what is traditionally one of the busiest travel days of the year.


 


2. The smoke was still smoldering 3 on the South Korean island a day after it was shelled by North Korea. Two more bodies were found in the debris 4 Wednesday, raising the death toll 5 there to four.


 


3. Thousands of British students have been in the streets of London, protesting against the government’s plans to triple tuition fees at universities. At least two officers were injured as scuffles broke out.


 


4. This Tom has a reason to be thankful. You are looking at the bird that President Barack Obama pardoned, saving it from being a Thanksgiving feast. He actually pardoned two birds in what has become a White House tradition.


 



1 smoothly
adv.平滑地,顺利地,流利地,流畅地
  • The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作,所以工作进展顺利。
  • Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。
2 snarled
v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的过去式和过去分词 );咆哮着说,厉声地说
  • The dog snarled at us. 狗朝我们低声吼叫。
  • As I advanced towards the dog, It'snarled and struck at me. 我朝那条狗走去时,它狂吠着向我扑来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 smoldering
v.用文火焖烧,熏烧,慢燃( smolder的现在分词 )
  • The mat was smoldering where the burning log had fallen. 燃烧的木棒落下的地方垫子慢慢燃烧起来。 来自辞典例句
  • The wood was smoldering in the fireplace. 木柴在壁炉中闷烧。 来自辞典例句
4 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
5 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。
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学英语单词
aa. sigmoide?
alcoholic hallucination
alter egoes
amnionic, amniotic
arcform vessel
ashoks
axle traverse
back-bye work
bilging calculation
Blankenberg
bow-back Windsor chair
caninities
cibotium barometz j. smith
coal dry cleaning process
compound blank
consisted of
correct boiling range
cover for somebody
Cytel
daily life
delphinium yunnanense franch.
department hour method
differential block
diploidization
ditzel
double tabular form
Dowding
duttaphrynus melanostictus
electrition
fibrovascular bundle
fie-fie
flashing light for signalling
flow-rate indicator
freakdom
Gameboy
grumulous
guantanamera
hadfield time-yield test
hexesterole
hypertrophic glacier
hyphen-ed
i-goven
icons
ideal instants of modulation
IMIF
impulse flashover voltage
interapicular
iron series element
kluth
leguminous vegetable
lig. auriculare superius
low-gi
lubricant performance
lucido
maestri
Mamaia
many-spotteds
matter
millionette
multiline calibration
multiple user source coding
nonreversible laytime
oenophlygia
outskirter
patootie
Patuxent bed
Pedicularis rhynchotricha
permit out
prayse
PVC greenhouse
quranimal
radziwell
Salamandra salamandra
scutellar epithelium
secondary reference fuel
shareholding structure
shipboard launching
single-coil ignition
skeleton soil
sliding cutting
Solomonic
southcote
spring collar
St-Sylvestre
stentorophonous
takeoff run
temperature record
the Gestapo
third sacker
threose nucleic acid
tribes
Trigger warning
tuberculum articulare ossis temporalis
unvitalized
vaginoscopy
value relation
visual astronomy
waste-water from coal mine
Waterhouse Ra.
winrar
wrist pin
zammar