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
abiogenous
abrasion resistant steel
Akulichi
anthranoyllycoctonine
aubepine
background clutter
Bentonite Spur
bicyclopentadienylidene
black mercurial lotion
blowoff velocity
boiler lagging plate joint piece
Bougouanou, Dép.de
buckypaper
cascade machines
cauliflower mosaic virus
cellist
chlorogenates
CI-679
clavine
Clitopilus
crann
customized definition
cutting performance
cystocyst
decimal places
deniece
diet low-salt
dispurses
dot-com boom
double line
driver perception-reaction time
Dygratyl
effective cylinder volume
eismen
electromagnetic overload release
entertainment-shopping district
eobiogenesis (pirie 1937)
epiphloedal
fedaries
Fengluanite
floor drain collector pump
fruticosus
gate distributing valve
ghoulish
Gordia
gray ghost
Heterolamium debile
horizontal deflection electrode
hyperfluorescence
hypophysial canal
illusional
industrial waste gas
insignious
instant on system
kangeroo
Kaynardzha
legeay
macroporous ion exchanger
make sth up as you go along
mark-to-model
marker arm
Mesima, Fiume
methylene succinic acid
Norfuk
nuclear bomber
one-worlds
ons-off switch
orange mint
osteoconduction
overhelped
patrol box
pedlar
pointer adjustment
predicted
pressure sensitive dyes
preventive putrefaction
proforma invoice
psti
pulchelloide
relaying partner
removal plug
repeat to address
restrictionary
Roegneria purpurascens
rotye
Sapakan
selwoods
separation elements
serial i/o channel
subject of experimental acupuncture and moxibustion
talonid
testing station
throat diameter
traction drill wagon
tunica conjunctiva
variable flow control
video-phone
violetrays
water vapor content
wind-screen
wrake
yerking