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
5'-deoxy-ribosyladenosine
abamurus
aly
amphibiology
articulationes
asima
Atbulak
bacteria beds
barrier layer rectifier
besonderer
blood vessel creep
boast
bottom paint
break the habit
bronchiocele
bruss
Bydolax
cambiata
chloranilam
cobalt(ii) cobalt(iii) oxide
commuted pension gratuity
content keys
contour plan
cross-grained float
description of territory
diploid sporophyte
double agitator mixer
dramaticism
electrical operating station
Eomecon
erysimum arkansanums
facility allocation
family Strophariaceae
file resource management
first city
first-tier supplier
follow scanner
follow-up inspection
foxman
full width elevator
fund of labor
Goianinha
hang up on
heartleaves
heliosiss
hikeathon
historical climatic record
homogenous polynomial
hypsiconchous
immunoflourescence
improvise
in double-quick time
in yourself
Jordan-Wigner commutation rules
lammergeier, lammergeir, lammergeyer
leptonic hypercharge
librates
longitudinal manoeuvrability
looked around for
lymphoplasty
maintenance program procedures
MaLeod gauge
mantel tree
medical benefits
Mucunambiba, I.
nkaka
Oreocnide rubescens
Osborne House
outmarched
polystyrene-impregnated concrete
premining stress
propylbenzene
Qantas Airways Limited
qct
recycling program
regular check
regular position
repetition survey of existing rail-way
roll balance
sarko-(sarco-)
scoop tube positioner
shape poem
shared run-time library
smoke - free environment
spitting cobras
stereo perception
storage allocation scheme
subclassification
tfua
themus (themus) purpuratus
thin soil
too-hoo
tournell
turse
two-terminal
vein thrombosis
warm front type occlusion
water break section
wedding vows
X alloy
yanira
Zehbe's cells