时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2010(七月)


英语课

1. Ships are heading back to resume work on the leaking oil well in the Gulf 1 after the remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie have breezed past. Dozens of vessels 2 evacuated 3 the areas as the storm bore down. It weakened to a tropical depression before moving over the well.


 


2. German police have raised the death toll 4 to more than a dozen in a stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans. Police say dozens more were injured. They're still trying to determine exactly what happened at Love Parade music festival.


 


3. A Canadian air force jet crashed and exploded in a ball of flames during a training run for an air show. The pilot was able to eject from the plummeting 5 plane before it hit the runway. He is treated and released from a hospital.


 


4. A week after Argentina legalized same-sex marriage, the Ministry 6 of Tourism hosted a "Winter Queer Tango Festival." The gay tango movement started five years ago, setting up to show that dance does not always have to involve a man and a woman



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 vessels
n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人
  • The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
4 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
5 plummeting
v.垂直落下,骤然跌落( plummet的现在分词 )
  • Prices are rising, falling, going up, going down, shooting up, plummeting, etc. 物价在上涨、下跌、上升、下落、猛然上涨、骤然下跌等。 来自辞典例句
  • The enemy plane went plummeting into the sea. 敌机直直掉进海里。 来自辞典例句
6 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
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学英语单词
7-ACA
a gap in the market
aarre
above suspicion
acrosite
aluminium autunite
antiorgan
beverage container
bibliographic, bibliographical
blood-forming
bolt hole chamfering
cabomba
calculated mass
Charkana
chisel edge angle
civilists
constant elasticity alloy
constant-boiling mixture
contrarotation
copromorphids
cosmographists
current spit
Cusco-bark
data termination equipment
decade subtracter
degrammaticalizations
distress for rent
Dodsland
eating your words
Edgar Varese
eid mubarak
electrical resonator
elevation commutator
farm laborer
favus cup
femoral neck
finite clipping
firebutton
Flemlφse
flicker roll
fontrevault
froshing
Fuyang pulse
Gandak R.
gap span ratio
genus Homogyne
get gray
high threshold
ignition-type tachometer
imitation lag
indicated strain
juniper (juniperus)
kamchatka salmon
Kansas-Nebraska Act
menu icon
mercuric acetylide
Methoxychalcone
midnighters
moist room
naiadaceaes
nature of casting metal
optimal flight control
oscillating washer
parallel antenna
pentylentetrazol
phelb-
phlox worms
policy argument
Port Saint Joe
post-horn
prandial
profile-shifted gears
program interruption element
pulse Doppler air target tracking radar
pyepowder
quarry bar
raw material sites
restrictive business tariff
retraised
rosellinia formosana
sailmaker's eye splice
scherms
self-induced
spectral distribution of fluorescence
starting order
substantial harm
tabwa
Tchaikovskyans
tcrg
tea-cosy
the right
to row
treadstone
two half hitch
tyre life
ulti
Visayan Is.(Visayas)
wake-goose
westeria
wing-footed
with chapter and verse
Yanac