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. The mayor of Fargo, North Dakota says a levee breach 1 that allowed the Red River to flood an elementary school early Sunday is a "wake-up call". He said that shows a threat that the city faces for the next week. Water crept under a permanent dike 2 and flooded the school early Sunday.


2. Police say a gunman opened fire at a North Carolina nursing home Sunday, killing 3 six and wounding at least two others. The gunman was also injured before he was apprehended 4 by police after the 10 a.m. shooting. It happened at Pinelake Health and Rehab in Carthage.


3. Anti-nuclear groups held protest vigils for the 30th anniversary of America's worst nuclear power plant accident. A small amount of radiation was released into the air of Three Mile Island in 1979. No nuclear power plants have been built in the US since then.


4. Australians gathered and killed thousands of toads 5 this weekend. Officials in Queensland say the toads eat other animals and ravage 6 the landscape. They'll be turned into fertilizer.



1 breach
n.违反,不履行;破裂;vt.冲破,攻破
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
2 dike
n.堤,沟;v.开沟排水
  • They dug a dike along walls of the school.他们沿校墙挖沟。
  • Fortunately,the flood did not break the dike.还好,这场大水没有把堤坝冲坏。
3 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。
4 apprehended
逮捕,拘押( apprehend的过去式和过去分词 ); 理解
  • She apprehended the complicated law very quickly. 她很快理解了复杂的法律。
  • The police apprehended the criminal. 警察逮捕了罪犯。
5 toads
n.蟾蜍,癞蛤蟆( toad的名词复数 )
  • All toads blink when they swallow. 所有的癞蛤蟆吞食东西时都会眨眼皮。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Toads have shorter legs and are generally more clumsy than frogs. 蟾蜍比青蛙脚短,一般说来没有青蛙灵活。 来自辞典例句
6 ravage
vt.使...荒废,破坏...;n.破坏,掠夺,荒废
  • Just in time to watch a plague ravage his village.恰好目睹了瘟疫毁灭了他的村庄。
  • For two decades the country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign intervention.20年来,这个国家一直被内战外侵所蹂躏。
学英语单词
acute hives
aged flavo(u)r
Amylbarbitone
aperture conductivity
at pilot station
Balya
bergamol
Bhangi
blast pipe nozzle
braincase
breadth over planking
by-pass valve of shaker
Caianda
calling line identification signal
cash circulation
casting slip
chloro-amine
choroisopleth diagram
coal-tar pitch paint
colour harmony
continuous administration of low flow oxygen
cook-up
diffusiophoretic force
discriminating rate
EDP auditing program
elastic low par stock
electrocardiographic
electronic pulsating stimulators
Ephemerantha
estinyl
ex-ante policy analysis
facing-head
fuel element burnout
gander cough
Hadley, Henry Kimball
Hiphyllin
hydromagnetic engine
I beg to differ.
ice movement
illiberis yeni
instance variable
Jaunkalsnava
Khmelezero
kieselguhrs
kinetics of ion formation
Kurosiwo
L chain
lead-circuit
line facilities
live oak
live on the fat of the land
locklin
Loiching
machine address
magnetofrictional
moderatour
molybdenum tannage
Morebattle
natural rubber cable
neuralgia obturatoria
Northeastern State University
oriental turtle dove
ornithine carbamoyltransferase
pachysantriol
paint
peptomyosin
perisigmoiditis
petroholic
plasma arc machining
political power
postal law
price reporting system
primrose season
procanace hendeli
process oriented language
punctura Douglasi
quinine rash
rapid-cycling
Regulation SHO
reinstate
remedless
rethanking
rhein-diglucoside
ricinoleyl alcohol
sang royal
soja bean
storage polymer
sulcus infrapalpebralis
super compressibility
swallowhole
system mechanization
tape-limited
teated
temporary welds
three-point landing
tinosorb
tolerance chimera
total oxygen by reduction extraction
Video Electronics Standard Association
viscoelastic effect
washing rate
world order