时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(四)月


英语课

1.The World Health Organization is sending resources to Mexico to get a handle on an illness outbreak tied to a new strain of swine flu. So far, 57 deaths have been reported. Scientists are trying to determine if the same strain sickened eight people in Texas and California.


2.A South Carolina official says the state's worst blaze in 30 years was set by a person burning yard debris 1. The fire chief says the blaze started last weekend then rekindled 2 and turned into a raging wildfire.


3.Rhode Island authorities say they have fingerprints 3 and other evidence linking accused murder suspect Philip Markoff to a third crime scene. The medical student is charged with killing 4 a 25-year-old New York woman and robbing another woman in Boston.


4.Authorities say the White House was briefly 5 locked down and the US capitol evacuated 6 after a small plane wandered into restricted airspace around Washington. The air scare was over within minutes after military aircraft intercepted 7 the plane.



1 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。
2 rekindled
v.使再燃( rekindle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • As soon as they met again his dormant love for her was rekindled. 他们一见面,他对她的旧情如乾柴烈火般又重新燃起。 来自辞典例句
  • Ive found rekindled my interest in re-reading the books. 我发觉这提起了我再次阅读这些书的兴趣。 来自互联网
3 fingerprints
n.指纹( fingerprint的名词复数 )v.指纹( fingerprint的第三人称单数 )
  • Everyone's fingerprints are unique. 每个人的指纹都是独一无二的。
  • They wore gloves so as not to leave any fingerprints behind (them). 他们戴着手套,以免留下指纹。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
5 briefly
adv.简单地,简短地
  • I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
  • He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
6 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
7 intercepted
拦截( intercept的过去式和过去分词 ); 截住; 截击; 拦阻
  • Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave the hotel. 他正要离开旅馆,记者们把他拦截住了。
  • Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave by the rear entrance. 他想从后门溜走,记者把他截住了。
学英语单词
acceptability criteria
aerocrete compressive strength
allocated phase
amount forecast
antinihilists
aromatizers
asplenium virides
Bacillus septicaemiae
bhante
bicaudatus
biological limits
blooded
blurred neuron
boreass
bow-guards
burstiest
bye-channel
capacitance in parallel
chn element analyzer
cochleariuss
composite colour sync
contour sawing
data collection and distribution
Dc Circuit Breakers
diesel propulsion
diphenyl disulfoxide
dipteran
dispersion definition
ditch-and-trench excavator
enluting
equivalence string
fascia prostatae
fixed digit
floor men
food-source
freight train hour diagram
Frenkel mixer
frothy bloat
get the wrong end of the stick
Grundite
helaman
Heracleum moellendorffii
hot water boiler
hour star ring
ideationally
index of zone
industrial garden
legally wrong
linseed bath
loan proceeds
locomotive centralized power supply
Mazanovo
nail biter
NEMATOGNATHIDA
no home record
nonequality gate
nonpolyester
over head and ears in debt
paint up
parameter block address
poly(4-methyl-1-pentene)
pool of labor
porcelains
pottery barn
power satellite
preinvasive carcinoma
pressure filter-tank
prestressed reinforcement
pulsometer (pump)
reaction tower
real friend
regwort
renames
response variables
revival sunspot group
rice belt
ride sb. on the snaffle
Rogationtides
run the risk of doing sth
Schokkerhaven
screw unloader
Secondary issue
shakings
shallow-heartedness
sheet-fed press
shevonne
silver gelatin
skirt around
solid-set sprinkler irrigation
structural state
the unthinkable
triple jumps
tschernichite
vacuole membrane
warehouse certificate
waterlodged farmland
wind spread sterility
wind-tipped stereocomparator
wmds
workman's compensation
wrad
zero subcarrier chromaticity