时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(五月)


英语课

1. Iran's state-run Press TV says three Americans jailed in Iran are now meeting with their mothers. The trio’s mothers arrived in Tehran yesterday to visit their children and try to secure their release. The three were arrested along the Iraqi border in July, and Iran has accused them of spying.


2. North Korea warns it will wage all-out war if punished toward the sinking of a South Korean warship 1. Investigators 2 say evidence proved that a North Korean submarine fired a torpedo 3 that sank a South Korean naval 4 ship back in March. Forty six sailors died in that attack.


3. Officials say an army veteran who sped away from security in an air force base in Florida has been shot and killed by an FBI agent. Officials say the veteran threatened the agent with a knife. No one else was injured. The air force has not released the dead man's name or the name of the FBI agent.


4. Warmart says it is pulling an entire line of Miley Cyrus-brand jewelry 5 from its shelves after test show they contain high levels of the toxic 6 metal, cadmium. The items aren't believed to be dangerous if simply worn. Concern comes when youngsters bite or suck on the jewelry. Long-term exposure to cadmium can lead to bone softening 7 and kidney failure.

 



1 warship
n.军舰,战舰
  • He is serving on a warship in the Pacific.他在太平洋海域的一艘军舰上服役。
  • The warship was making towards the pier.军舰正驶向码头。
2 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 torpedo
n.水雷,地雷;v.用鱼雷破坏
  • His ship was blown up by a torpedo.他的船被一枚鱼雷炸毁了。
  • Torpedo boats played an important role during World War Two.鱼雷艇在第二次世界大战中发挥了重要作用。
4 naval
adj.海军的,军舰的,船的
  • He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
  • The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。
5 jewelry
n.(jewllery)(总称)珠宝
  • The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盗偷走了我的全部珠宝。
  • Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠宝和花边多数是女性用品。
6 toxic
adj.有毒的,因中毒引起的
  • The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
  • There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。
7 softening
变软,软化
  • Her eyes, softening, caressed his face. 她的眼光变得很温柔了。它们不住地爱抚他的脸。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
  • He might think my brain was softening or something of the kind. 他也许会觉得我婆婆妈妈的,已经成了个软心肠的人了。
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a one-eyed monster
Akiharu
Ameritards
amplification system
atn
auxiliary protection
background application
barrel-chested
basket cell
billi-cycle
captain's declaration
Cartier, Jacques
cauls
chicken stew
clearance nut
clipped roe fish
concentration of carbon
Corliss valve
cortancyl
curvatura gastrica major
device service routine
diffused optical waveguide
doras
double-lined
drilling-in completion fluid
drop safes
easi (estimate of adversary sequence interruption)
enarthromyces indicus
ethyl-magnesium-halide
exemplify to be
exportations
fig trees
flip phone
foscarini
gain band width product
genus tineas
geosynclinal system
go smash
guy friends
hangingwall
heald knitter
hornsland
in any term
inductive sawtooth generator
know better than
landing party
less-than-container load
licity
lifting force
long swing
long term memory
Longicil
look somebody up
low and intermediate tensile strength
lyngbya majuscula
madders
made demands on
main aisle
mana-weaves
merket
mersion
metallurgy research
metasedimentayr rock
mild pressing along meridian course
Modacor
molecularist
multi-tubing wellhead
mylopharyngeal
nayna
night after night
One Fathom Bank
out for blood
paraskevidekatriaphobia
pcusa
perthiocyanic acid
pneumatic conveyer with pressure
pregls
prevention of blindness
protrudin
quasi sine-wave
replacement evaluation
ring porous wood
riverplains
row lock cover
sea suction valve
shipment on order
Stradbroke Island
strap-wound winding
subbed out
subtropical fruit
super-expensive
synchronized wave
TD (tunnel diode)
thought to one
top-selling
urban land
Vaccinium arboreum
verrucous pyoderma
volatile combustible
wincies
Yahve
Zoanthus