英语中级口语 five1.ppt

Unit Five The Nuclear Winter (I) petition: (1) A solemn supplication or request to a superior authority; an entreaty 请愿，恳求 grant sb’s petition 批准某人的请求 hand in [send in] one’s petition to (=lodge ones petition to) 向...申请 (2) A formal written document requesting a right or benefit from a person or group in authority 请愿书 The villagers all signed a petition asking for a hospital to be built. 村民们都在请愿书上签名要求建一所医院。 The townspeople sent a petition to the government asking for electric light for the town. 市民向政府递交请愿书, 要求为该市安装电灯。 eternal: Being without beginning or end; existing outside of time 永恒的,不朽的 eternal truths 不朽的真理 Rome has been called the Eternal City. 罗马被称为永恒之城。 Eternal life to the revolutionary martyrs! 革命先烈永垂不朽! unprecedented: Having no previous example 空前的 The enemy mad bombardment caused unprecedented death and destruction in the country. 敌人的狂轰滥炸在这个国家造成了空前的死亡和破坏。 unprecedented economic growth 史无前例的经济增长 The early 90‘s finds an unprecedented tide of rural workers flooding into big cities in China. 九十年代初期,一股历史上从未有过的农民工的潮流涌进了中国的大城市。 catastrophe: A great, often sudden calamity 大灾难 The catastrophe of a tragedy usually brings death or ruin to the leading character. 悲剧的结局常常是主角死亡或毁灭。 Their English party turned out to be a catastrophe. 他们的英语晚会结局糟透了。 rage: (to be) violent, explosive anger 狂怒 My father was in a rage last night. 我父亲昨天晚上十分生气。 The raging sea was lulled. 翻腾的海浪平息了。 He raged at the mindless bureaucracy. 他怒斥愚蠢的官僚主义。 ignite: To cause to burn 使燃烧 The liquid ignited when somebody dropped a match in it accidentally. 有人无意中往这种液体里扔了一根火柴,它就燃烧起来了。 deploy: To distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically 部署 The army deployed to the left. 军队向左散开。 obliterate: To do away with completely so as to leave no trace 废除 The sand-storm obliterated his footprints. 沙暴掩埋掉了他的脚印。 The town was obliterated by the bombs. 这座城市被炸毁了。 plausible: Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible 看似真实的，看似有道理的 a plausible excuse 看似有理的借口 the plausible talk of a crafty sal