时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2015(四)月


英语课

 1. More than 2,500 are now confirmed dead as millions of Nepalis brace 1 for aftershocks following an earthquake. Soldiers were seen digging for signs of survivors 2 as international aid efforts to arrive in Kathmandu. 


2. Coast Guard crews are searching for five people missing in the water after a powerful storm capsized several boats in an Alabama regatta (a sporting event consisting of a series of boat or yacht races). Officials say they've searched over 1,100 square miles, using boats and search planes.
3. Dozens of giant water frogs are washing up in the banks of Lake Titicaca bordering Bolivia and Peru. Officials saw contaminants from nearby construction, hospitals and mining *, harming the critically endangered species. 
4. And hundreds marked the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, mourning the loss of those killed in the world's deadliest nuclear accident. Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko honored the victims by laying flowers and visiting the construction zone at the site of disaster. 
 

1 brace
n. 支柱,曲柄,大括号; v. 绷紧,顶住,(为困难或坏事)做准备
  • My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth. 我的女儿得戴牙套以矫正牙齿。
  • You had better brace yourself for some bad news. 有些坏消息,你最好做好准备。
2 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
学英语单词
accession to the wto
acute bisector
adaptation-level theory
All Day and Night
antecedent genome
arc furnace electrode mast
asphalt sand
automatic breech mechanism
barrow - in - furness
Bessao
bimetal coil
blackout varnish
brachiosauruss
brush-turkeys
burn a hole in one's pocket
burrowers
bysy
Calomarde
cementing manifold truck
centennium
centri
cervical cytology
coded tape valve
colo(u)r fastness
countervalues
cryobuffer
Diastix
digging
drone-pilot
effect of rights over thins
Eggenrot
endoscopic image guide bundles
erysipelas internum
exclusive privileges
expansion thermometre
farm laborers
fermium (fm)
fixed assets rate of water project
fixed-point register
gas-fired crucible furnace
hearkeners
herkogamy
higher-dimensional grammar
hydrocarbyl
imperial beards
individual dosimeter
Iraqi
Irvinestown
Jacobson's organs
keep ... mouth shut
Kuengskiy Khrebet
lashkar-e-toibas
latchkey dog
lathyrine
LPCRS (low pressure coolant recirculation system)
lupetazine tartrate
mamma-yaw
Maytime
meiotic
micheline
monitoring unit
MSAD
myrcenone
normal lapse rate
North Esk, River
nystafungin
oophorosalpingectomies
os/2 warp
oxygen tolerance test
pachyderma oris
peegee
peeksies
Peixes, R.dos
power fail safe
power-handling capability
press button key
pressure effect
pseudomycete
Raukumara, Mt.
reaction thermonuclear
reel height adjustment lever
remote control arrangement
sabaya
schizotetranychus baltazarae
scutylle
search mission
sex out
silica-alumina gel
soft music
starvation ligature
Streptococcus agalactiae
systematic engineering
time's arrow
truckies
urban-type
uric-acid calculus
veneer stone
virginny
vornado
vowelisation
waylanders
Wernicke's field