时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2016年9月


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Starting with the drought that's been going on. It's not one you might have heard of.


The Atlantic hurricane drought — it's been more than 10 years since a category three or stronger hurricane has made landfall in the Eastern U.S. or on the Gulf 1 Coast. A category three storm is a major one, with wind speeds of more than 110 miles per hour. The current hurricane drought is the longest on record.


But it doesn't mean there haven't been any big Atlantic storms. Hurricane Gaston is currently spinning in the Atlantic. It's just not expected to hit land.


Forecasters say the longer a drought last, the more likely it becomes that a threatening hurricane will form. And right now, the North Atlantic is entering peak season for cyclones 3. The hurricane season itself runs from June 1st to November 30th. Mid 4 to late August is the start of the most active and dangerous time for tropical cyclone 2 activity. That's according to the U.S. government's meteorologists.


There are a couple of systems out at sea that could become a threat in the days ahead. What should you do if you live in an area where a hurricane could come ashore 5?


SUBTITLE 6: Preparing for a hurricane.


JENNIFER GRAY, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You and your family need to be prepared for hurricane way before it makes landfall.


The number one thing you need to do: get your supplies. You need enough nonperishable food items for three days for each person in your family.


You also need one gallon of water per day for each person. Also make sure you have plenty of batteries and a battery operated radio, as well as flashlights.


Chances are during a hurricane, you will lose power. In that case, your cell phone will lose power as well. So, you'll lose all of your contacts.


Make sure you make a list of all the emergency contacts that you'll need.


Also, have an evacuation plan. Know your evacuation route and familiarize yourself with it.


Lastly, get your home ready. If you have hurricane shutters 7, make sure you know where they are and you know how to install them. Also, prune 8 your trees and gather up any loose items that can become projectiles 9 once the winds pick up.



1 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
2 cyclone
n.旋风,龙卷风
  • An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
  • The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
3 cyclones
n.气旋( cyclone的名词复数 );旋风;飓风;暴风
  • The pricipal objective in designing cyclones is to create a vortex. 设计旋风除尘器的主要目的在于造成涡旋运动。 来自辞典例句
  • Middle-latitude cyclones originate at the popar front. 中纬度地区的气旋发源于极锋。 来自辞典例句
4 mid
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
5 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
6 subtitle
n.副题(书本中的),说明对白的字幕
  • His new book has a subtitle.他的新书有一个副标题。
  • Ah!I don't know why they don't subtitle these movies.唉!我不知道这些电影为什么不打字幕。
7 shutters
百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门
  • The shop-front is fitted with rolling shutters. 那商店的店门装有卷门。
  • The shutters thumped the wall in the wind. 在风中百叶窗砰砰地碰在墙上。
8 prune
n.酶干;vt.修剪,砍掉,削减;vi.删除
  • Will you prune away the unnecessary adjectives in the passage?把这段文字中不必要的形容词删去好吗?
  • It is our job to prune the side branches of these trees.我们的工作就是修剪这些树的侧枝。
9 projectiles
n.抛射体( projectile的名词复数 );(炮弹、子弹等)射弹,(火箭等)自动推进的武器
  • These differences are connected with the strong absorption of the composite projectiles. 这些差别与复杂的入射粒子的强烈吸收有关。 来自辞典例句
  • Projectiles became more important because cannons could now fire balls over hundreds or yards. 抛射体变得更加重要,因为人们已能用大炮把炮弹射到几百码的距离之外。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
active floridin
agamo-
Anadyrskiy Zaliv
analogue superconducting magnetometer
angstroms
antimissile system
assembler source program
atrisk
available alkali
axiomatic definition
backslope
BSIRA
caringness
cerebral vasodilator
cingulatus
clangtint
community pharmacy
conspicuous consumer
critical flow prover
current source circuit
damped pressure gauge
dependent linearity
dextrosinistral
disease Leber's
do an experiment on
doctors act
dropped waist
e.s.c
egg-stand
Eildon, L.
end matched specimen
energetic event
Equilet
evans-pritchard
excitation forcing limiter
Exempt Commodity
fairworld
Farr-test
fast-evolving
femi-nazi
financial break-even
gabbier
Gamow, George
germanium defect
girdle ring
h.r.c
herbarizes
HPSWS (high pressure service water system)
in hole
in loop
intestine spiral types
irrespective of size
L'Ardoise
lagana
loop inductor
lower body negative pressure
lupinus albuss
luxor
macro-segregation
manual signalling
mathematical control model
metallic facility
moire
mundick
nonrecursive set
over-ruly
paranaesthesia
persist in something
Phangnga, Changwat
placenta edema
pneumotyphus
polar cartilage
polydicyclopentadiene
porphyrios
primary treatment of sewage
pro-antithrombin
putrefying bacteria
racketing
reaction enthalpy
recovered material
regulating stem
relative movement
repomucenus olidus
sandwichery
sausage in cream
schemey
scrubs out
skein breaker tenacity
slow combination
slurban
splay footed
temperature response variety
top tank
triamido
trustbusting
tunica abdominalis
unsiphon
vincaminoreine
wax resist painting
well-proportioned
wood framed floor
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