时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(三)月


英语课

1.President Barack Obama is ordering 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan to train its military and police forces. He says the mountainous region between Afghanistan and Pakistan is the most dangerous place in the world. Obama vowed 1 to disrupt, dismantle 2 and defeat Al-Qaeda there.


2.Minnesota's governor's telling residents of Moorhead to heed 3 the advice of emergency responders. Moorhead lies on the other side of the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota, where river levels have reached record heights and is still rising.


3.Mourners in Oakland, California said farewell today to four police officers who were gunned down last weekend. The slain 4 officers’ caskets draped in American flags, arrived in a caravan 5 that passed under a giant US flag held up by two fire truck ladders.


4.Bar patrons in Arizona got a startle when a bobcat trotted 6 in the front door. One man was attacked and slightly hurt. The cat was shot by police. Tests showed it had rabies.



1 vowed
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
2 dismantle
vt.拆开,拆卸;废除,取消
  • He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助,拆除这批弹头。
  • The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动,于是,我决定把它拆开。
3 heed
v.注意,留意;n.注意,留心
  • You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
  • For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
4 slain
杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词)
  • The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
  • His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。
5 caravan
n.大蓬车;活动房屋
  • The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身。
  • Geoff connected the caravan to the car.杰弗把旅行用的住屋拖车挂在汽车上。
6 trotted
小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走
  • She trotted her pony around the field. 她骑着小马绕场慢跑。
  • Anne trotted obediently beside her mother. 安妮听话地跟在妈妈身边走。
学英语单词
air of expansion
alfa-lavals
ALFC
annual household income
Asian Bond Market Initiative
asymmetrical-sideband transmission
be in duty bound to do
being in love
bronchi segmentalis apicoposterior
burmester centre/center
cathart
cathode-ray oscillograph
cloer
coefficient of atmospheric kinematic viscosity
congregeed
contractual interest rate
coptocera sasaji
cottontail rabbits
decahydroisoquinoline
decolonises
demineralize
dimyrcene
diplochasma sauteri
direction of flow
disubstituted
dual circulation
embosser
engineering component parts list
ethyl xanthate
famous actors
fideicommissary
fire machines
fireman's cabin
Fregene
Galgenhumor
galserian fissure (or petrotympanic fissure)
gene model
good rolling car
haaretzs
hamburger bun
hasten the decline of
have a weak stomach
heddle gauge
HHV (high heat value)
inassessibility
inducer impeller inducer
Jenghiz Khan, Jenghis Khan
La Fourche
limerickite
long wave FM radio telephone
long-term behavio(u)r
longchamps
lonsdales
Mad Hatter's disease
Make a mint
mandibular lymph nodes
midget lamp
mini-tvs
namaquensis
NOAC (Nuclear Operations Analysis Center)
non-return to zero recorder
novus actus interveniens
objecting to
ocean-going passenger vessel
order Conodonta
outer lead bonding
pellissier
performance enhancing
photographic resolving power
Pinkerton syndrome
polymictic
postopic foramen
pseudolines
quarry stone masonry
radopactovoty disintegration series
raisers
rent on moveable estate
rokusai nen buzu (japan)
scalar products
seasonal influenza
seismic interpretation
simatic
single-circuit transformer
solvent-resistant
statuary marble
suggest itself to
supersonic flight simulator
swan-shot
telephone interview
test dummy
to the ears
track hopper
tread out
twelvish
uninclined
unlapsed
unmusicality
urticas
vitro di trina
water-sediment mixture
wet distillation process
woofed