时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2008年(五)月


英语课

1. Hundreds of children taken from a polygamous compound may be reunited with their families as soon as Monday. It comes on the heels of a Texas court rulling that state officials went too far when they took the kids from the ranch 1.


2. A construction crane collapsed 2 Friday on New York's Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-storey apartment building as it fell to the ground. Two construction workers were killed, another seriously injured. It's the second deadly crane accident in less than two and a half months.


3. A Miami-bound plane overshot the runway and slammed into this busy street in the Honduran capital. A pilot and a passenger were killed. More than a dozen others were hurt. Weather may have been a factor in the wreck 3.


4. And it has big shoes, Manolo, of course to fill. The devotees (have) already reserved group tickets for the Sex and the City movie which hits theaters today. The flick 4 picks up where the cult-favorite show left off four years ago


WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. on the heels of: idiom.


Directly behind, immediately following


2. Upper East Side: n.


A section of New York City on Manhattan Island east of Fifth Avenue. The northern part, approximately between 57th Street and 96th Street, is also known as the East Side and includes many fashionable shops and residences.


3. Manolo (Manolo Blahnik): n. 马诺洛·布拉尼克(鞋)


Established in the 1970s, Manolo Blahnik has become world famous. His beautiful shoes exude 5 a level of craftsmanship 6 rare in today's age of mass production, and he has a wonderful sense of line and silhouette 7. These talents, combined with the other footwear sense he displays and exploits, have ensured his rightful position as a true genius in his field, worthy 8 of sharing the mantle 9 worn by the other brilliant shoe designers of the 20th century, Yanturni, Vionnet, Perugia, Ferragamo, and the one he most admires—Roger Vivier.


4. flick: n.


a movie.



1 ranch
n.大牧场,大农场
  • He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
  • The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。
2 collapsed
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
3 wreck
n.失事,遇难;沉船;vt.(船等)失事,遇难
  • Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
  • No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
4 flick
n.快速的轻打,轻打声,弹开;v.轻弹,轻轻拂去,忽然摇动
  • He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
  • By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下,将马头上的苍蝇驱走。
5 exude
v.(使)流出,(使)渗出
  • Some successful men exude self-confidence.有些成功的人流露出自信。
  • The sun made him exude sweat.烈日晒得他汗流浃背。
6 craftsmanship
n.手艺
  • The whole house is a monument to her craftsmanship. 那整座房子是她技艺的一座丰碑。
  • We admired the superb craftsmanship of the furniture. 我们很欣赏这个家具的一流工艺。
7 silhouette
n.黑色半身侧面影,影子,轮廓;v.描绘成侧面影,照出影子来,仅仅显出轮廓
  • I could see its black silhouette against the evening sky.我能看到夜幕下它黑色的轮廓。
  • I could see the silhouette of the woman in the pickup.我可以见到小卡车的女人黑色半身侧面影。
8 worthy
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
9 mantle
n.斗篷,覆罩之物,罩子;v.罩住,覆盖,脸红
  • The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green.大地披上了苍翠欲滴的绿色斗篷。
  • The mountain was covered with a mantle of snow.山上覆盖着一层雪。
学英语单词
air-resistance
ambiotic remedy
automatic repetition request mode
bailey wall
bell-type manometer
black market operation
blue sky legislation
brephotrophic
burmuda agreement
canonical state variable
causets
cell-to-cell
celsuss
center bridge
column enable
commodity output
continuous-pressure operation
CRC
crossed-pointer indicator
cylindrical cutter with spiral grooves
cystadenofibroma
DEFEC
delayed automatic gain control
depth-dependent
detecting circuit
dethridge meter
developmental grooves
distinctive circumstances
down start
down the road
dry transport
dynamic print-out
end round
end track
epicyclic reduction gear solar type
eruct
eutaxis
evynnis japonica
fauconniers
fibre parallelization
fixed filter unit
FTPing
Gangnam Style
gauge variations
gladhand
glass bulb
gun sb down
half adder circuit
high-speed balancing
hyalodendrin
Interfascicularis
lay salt on a bird's tail
layer erosion
legal formalities
licitra
lunar corona
Lées-Athas
macrophiles
Mariotto
masterly inactivity
Mitch, Hurricane
Neuwied
noninterview
nonresponders
nourishing yin and moisturizing the lung
obedienciaries
operating ystem
passive recreation
pay the freight
Payakumbuh
pelokonite
positive catalyzer
preachees
pressure up
quaiches
Quamatel
radiation main love
rapefests
Regio frontalis
Rodosto
rosenberry
salad leaf crops
second order equation
self evaluation maintenance model(sem)
Serpasil
shadeenduring plant
sick man of Europe
side telescope
steam generator relief line
Sudan IV
tengku
thinkablest
tin streak
to show for
transchelation
Trigonotis nankotaizanensis
tsumi
tyles
typophile
viscoelastic plate
warm-water species
wavyish