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
a deed to the house
Abū Sa'īd
alternate circularports and annular spaces
autofocusing
auzoue (lauzoue)
Azay-le-Ferron
b-display
be down the tube s
Big Bag
cavity wave meter
change remote access password
Cherula
combined statement of income
conductings
connusco
Csenger
Ctenopsyllus segnis
Deccan Plateau
degree of American Petroleum Institute
deoxyglycyrrhetinic acid
detailed examination program
dialable
dispraise
Edstone
elastic membrane (larynx)
end table
endo-isomer
floating-gate metal-oxide-semiconductor
fuel bill
gallienis
hay cube
heavy load adjustment
herding
high temperature steel
HUGZ
Hymenanthera
hypertext markup language 4.0
induced drag
interfacial corrosion
isopropyl aniline
ITV (industrial television)
jointly and severally bound
kazuko
lead benzonate
lepamine
Llanberis
Lunain
makes much account of
media drive
metamorphic gradient
Minerva jacket
monetary
MPS (mathematical programming system)
multiple
Mulundu
mutagensis
NAND circuit
nonrecreational
O-VANILLIN
occupational acne
of vessel
oppositiflora
ougle
overfeeders
paradox of thrift
paternostered
perforation of colon
phagostimulatory
picker short guide
pickling of metal
pivot axis
pneumatic steelmaking
polyvinyl chloride gasket
porous cell
postmultiplied
printed circuit board test language
probenecid
programmed flow
Psammodynastes
r&d location
rate of turn indicater
replanted limb
right-hand coordinate system
saxo grammaticuss
sinallagma
single wire system
site inspection
skytruck
slotted array antenna
souvenier
speed droop
splat mat
ST_doing-and-achieving_potential
stylomandibular
Suzemka
swelleth
teapot domes
thujopsene
tower buggy
venediktov
water warmer
yellow chrome