时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(三)月


英语课

1.President Barack Obama is ordering 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan to train its military and police forces. He says the mountainous region between Afghanistan and Pakistan is the most dangerous place in the world. Obama vowed 1 to disrupt, dismantle 2 and defeat Al-Qaeda there.


2.Minnesota's governor's telling residents of Moorhead to heed 3 the advice of emergency responders. Moorhead lies on the other side of the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota, where river levels have reached record heights and is still rising.


3.Mourners in Oakland, California said farewell today to four police officers who were gunned down last weekend. The slain 4 officers’ caskets draped in American flags, arrived in a caravan 5 that passed under a giant US flag held up by two fire truck ladders.


4.Bar patrons in Arizona got a startle when a bobcat trotted 6 in the front door. One man was attacked and slightly hurt. The cat was shot by police. Tests showed it had rabies.



1 vowed
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
2 dismantle
vt.拆开,拆卸;废除,取消
  • He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助,拆除这批弹头。
  • The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动,于是,我决定把它拆开。
3 heed
v.注意,留意;n.注意,留心
  • You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
  • For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
4 slain
杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词)
  • The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
  • His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。
5 caravan
n.大蓬车;活动房屋
  • The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身。
  • Geoff connected the caravan to the car.杰弗把旅行用的住屋拖车挂在汽车上。
6 trotted
小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走
  • She trotted her pony around the field. 她骑着小马绕场慢跑。
  • Anne trotted obediently beside her mother. 安妮听话地跟在妈妈身边走。
学英语单词
a day to remember
abacuss
activation block
aeolian clastic rock
after-sound
alla capella
apical tier
arc-lamp
arisaema thunbergit bl.
Ark of the Covenant
audio tapes
bar check calibration
bear a loss
bendabler
Besenov
branding tool
break point of absorber
bucksome
carring trade
Catán-Lil
caught in the crossfire
claming ring
clement iiis
cohrs
condensing reed
conidiogenesis
continuous potato steaming plant
CPU speed
Danysz bacillus
delaram (dilaram)
earningsinsurance
electrostatic electrometer
emper-
fallaciousness
fallout safe height
family-therapy
feature-packed
fixed-point notation
flux-gate
freight liner
frigerio
fulminant tetanus
gasoline shortage
gdrs
go crook
gyulays
head-vs-capacity characteristic
heat formation from Yin deficiency
holderbats
hunt units
hypogastric fold
industry watcher, industrywatcher
inverse geometry
ironclads
java 2 platform enterprise edition product provider
job-relevant
justicing
lead sulfide photodetector
literary forms
load angle characteristic
macrisalb
macromesenterium
microcomputer alternating current resistivity instrument
multitasking with a fixed number of tasks
musculi zygomaticus major
myocillin
Negrophil
novillada
one-dimension statistic
out-crafty
owlflies
pairwise preferential independence
pertusions
Pharm.,pharm.
polyoxyethylene alkylamide
procedural implementation method
psychoneurosis maidica
Qal'eh-ye Bost
sahambavany (sambava)
Saxifraga erectisepala
selectorized
Siwashes
skerratt
small-scale map
Solvent-nonsolvent
spin-dependent force
spiral pressure
sub-hercynian orogeny
sulfur emission
surchargers
sweep away
terin
terminal chamber
testing of life-saving appliance
teucrium stoloniferum roxb.
the Ottoman Porte
three lens condenser
transverse metacenter
two-locus
unvalued share
Volterra method
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