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 bun in the oven
acoustic input impedance
ambuscades
bamma
begayed
blush for sb
bone metastases
bowler-hats
BUILDINGS LOST
Capparis pubifolia
central air-conditioner
chip vessel
clear of suspicion
coefficient of harmonics distortion
coloproctitis
contact-bounce elimination circuit
corrugated steel culvert
coxa vara luxans
cpn
credit requirement
cross-curricular
cubbiest
d-love(deficiency love)
Deira
diametric ratio of flange
draughted
dry element cell
ElObeid
enriched uranium reactor
fast speed
fault resistance
fleerings
floating replacement character
Fontaine-de-Vaucluse
four fundamental rubes
free-standing arrangement
French ultramarine blue
Fântânele
give yourself up
glottalling
goes the extra mile
haemodromographs
Hallermann-Streiff
horizontal breakwater
HSWLENE
inclined bed
Jesser Pt.
Joint Communication Board
journal bush
judgement against the plaintiff
kaminski
kitol
lactarius lignyotus
LitB
Mandjimi
microphthalmias
midwifery phantom
mine dumps
multiple endocrine neoplasia
musculospiral nerves
natural parthenogenesis
neutron econnomy
non-neutrality
novars
of your own free will
onagri
page and line
peachcare
percussion side-wall sampling
perfectly elastic supply
periodic annual growth
Piedra Aguda, Embalse de
plagianthus betulinuss
plenary inspiration
pontryagin method
portland blast-furnace slag cement
pressure grease cup
prevailing current
quartz fibre pendulums
que
reafferent
reduction-gear
restations
Rhodesianness
rubricize
salt taste
salvio
sanding electrovalve
Scutellaria orthocalyx
Sechibaru
session man,sessionman
Sigep, Tg.
significs
slentems
statutory records
thermoregulative conditioned reflex
transient well test
trip tray
uveoparotid fever
vector on surface
Vuillard
wave pattern resistance