时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:英闻天下


英语课

   At least two people, including an 8-year-old child, have died following two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.


 
  More than 100 others have been injured. Six are reported to be in critical conditions.
 
  Many of the injured appear to be spectators who had gathered to watch runners cross the line.
 
  The blasts went off within seconds of each other.
 
  Boston police say they are also investigating a third blast that occurred at the city's John F. Kennedy Library several miles away and more than an hour later.
 
  So far there has been no injuries were reported in the library explosion.
 
  Boston Police Commissioner 1 Edward Davis:
 
  "We are not certain that these incidents are related but we are treating them as they are we recommending to people that they stay home and that if they are in hotels in the areas that they return to their rooms and they don't go to places congregate 2 large crowds we want to make sure we completely stabilize 3 the situation."
 
  US intelligence sources say two other explosive devices have been found near the marathon finish line.
 
  The FBI considers the bombings a terrorist attack, but it's not sure if the source is domestic or international.
 
  There has been no immediate 4 word on the motive 5 or who may have launched the attack.
 
  US President Barack Obama has made a statement, promising 6 to get to the bottom of the incidents and get those responsible to face justice.

1 commissioner
n.(政府厅、局、处等部门)专员,长官,委员
  • The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
  • He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
2 congregate
v.(使)集合,聚集
  • Now they can offer a digital place for their readers to congregate and talk.现在他们可以为读者提供一个数字化空间,让读者可以聚集和交谈。
  • This is a place where swans congregate.这是个天鹅聚集地。
3 stabilize
vt.(使)稳定,使稳固,使稳定平衡;vi.稳定
  • They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
  • His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。
4 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
5 motive
n.动机,目的;adv.发动的,运动的
  • The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
6 promising
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
学英语单词
abysmal facies
acceptance ledger
administrative services
AIRBM
automatic cop change loom
average flow time
BASM
be dead as mutton
biogenic salt
bispheric lens
blue sickness
boston ledger
Breeder's Association of Nation
can you
cengizs
chlorogenine
covenanters
Creemore
decaffeination
desterilized
discriminandum
distincture
diving medicine
documentary-film
down-tube
ductus incisivus
dynamic backup
eizenstat
eongenital infection
Escuminac
exit stage left
extra lady
extra-budgetary source
fatwaing
ferromagnetic tape
fiber diffraction pattern
floor-games
gotten stuck in
gradient-related method of statistical inference
Grecian slipper
greenery-yalleries
grth
half model test
handtop
Harspranget
ICIFI
immitted
inchs of head
intermediate diameter
intersertal texture
joint cargo system
kakiage
Kalkmanganspat
late-winter
LITTORINOIDAE
microjump subroutine
Minsterley
mobile radio users' mssociation (mrua)
monoplast
multiple-gap lightning arrester
neogenotype
nonwoven fabric
not but that
occipitotemporal
Oeversee
on the edge of
outcrossings
overparameterizations
pdr.
pile-up of dislocations
piobert
Pokemon paranoia
promogulate
pronesse
propstrum
protection error in operating system
pseudonamespace
replenishment rate
Rhododendron wongii
rising-sun magnetron
rule of fair trade
self resistance
shell-likes
Sinclairville
sinusitis frontalis
size for connection
slot lapping
solutio indebiti
sovietist
spongy-stuffed
stage of exhaustion
stand gravity
standard natural rubber
static transformator
surrogate constraint
sutarso
thrashing-
time between overhaul
unique features
wet pan milling
whinnyingly
yuh