时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2013(五月)


英语课
  1.Officials say Monday's tornado 1 that tore through an Oklahoma city suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused 2 billion dollars overall damage. The twister killed 24 people.
 
  2.The IRS official at the center of controversy 2 appeared today before a House committee investigating the IRS' targeting of conservative groups. Lois Lerner told the panel that she had done nothing wrong before asserting her Fifth Amendment 3 right not to incriminate herself.
 
  3.Two men attacked another man near a London military barracks today. One man and two others believed to have weapons were shot by police. British Prime Minister David Cameron says the attack appeares to be terror-related.
 
  4.A Philadelphia bike courier is showing the world how he and his cat see eye to eye. MJ the Tabby rides on her owner's shoulder when he deliveres packages. MJ's Youtube video has received more than 1.2 million hits since October.

1 tornado
n.飓风,龙卷风
  • A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
2 controversy
n.争论,辩论,争吵
  • That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
  • We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
3 amendment
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
学英语单词
ac dialing
ad gustum
aeroplanktophyte
API hydrometer
begold
biochemical mechanisms
bird band
blastodermic disk
burgus
candy man
Cardamine violifolia
cardiomeasurator
cardioplasty
citizenship status
close-up picture
cloudscape
common wealth
companion star
cystogenia
daulte
descending to
die fledermaus
double-line tunnel
driven antenna
Edwin Landseer
Ehrlich's reagent
elastic weight
English reel
ENPEP (Energy and Power Evaluation Programme)
Ewaso Ngiri R.
filial duties
flexible gearing
foch
fungies
gacaca
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
gauze and lenno weave
Gibson, Josh(ua)
green development
greyish-browns
grinding spark
handlists
Hook's coupling
hyperbola of higher order
imagery assessment
instantaneous center of rotation
inter-item relationship
isopropyl thiogalactoside
Kiou Kan
knutzen
leboyer methods
leopard bone
lose efficacy
lycopodiophytes
mesocolon (or colic mesentery)
mocha coffee
morsal
moundville
multilayer motherboard
nada daiquiris
nagilactone
nineteenness
no-par-value share
Nonruminantia
Nämdö
oak leather
old rose
oral declaration
pagical
Paul Heyse
pitch face
plant orders
ploughing disc harrow
precalibrated reference standard
protofascism
Rayleigh disc
residue number system
roapiness
rod end
Saung
shifting clause
snake type strander
stabats
stair-step model
stomachaches
surplus in consolidation
synthal
toxinoses
trapping level
tumbling crusher
umbrella hood
unfunded debts
unmodulated keyed continunous wave
untroubling
uranous oxysulfite
vapor-phase refining
vasectomization
wars of american independence
wave-mechanical perturbation theory
wigglesworth
yesterseason