(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
A powerful storm system swept across the east coast on Wednesday,
周三，强大风暴系统席卷整个东海岸，
killing two people in Virginia and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the Carolinas.
造成弗吉尼亚两人死亡，卡罗莱纳州成千上万的家庭和企业断电。
A day earlier, the system spawned at least 10 tornadoes along the Gulf Coast, damaging hundreds of homes in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.
早在一天前，该系统在墨西哥湾沿岸产生了至少10次龙卷风，摧毁了路易斯安那、密西西比和佛罗里达州数百个家庭。
Forecasters warned the threat wasn’t over and that more than 88 million people were at risk Wednesday of seeing some sort of severe weather.
气象预报员警告称威胁尚未结束，周三有超过8,800万人面临某种恶劣天气。
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词汇解析
1、knock out
使不省人事；使入睡
He was arguing with his girlfriend and she hit him with a frying pan! Nearly knocked him out.
他和女友争吵时女友竟拿煎锅砸他！几乎把他砸晕了过去。
The three drinks knocked him out.
3杯酒就让他昏昏入睡了。
击败；淘汰
Henri Leconte has been knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Geneva Open.
亨利·勒孔特在日内瓦公开赛四分之一决赛中被淘汰。
The Irish came so close to knocking England out of the European Championships.
爱尔兰队险些将英格兰队从欧锦赛中淘汰出局。
摧毁；使瘫痪
Our bombers have knocked out the mobile launchers.
我们的轰炸机摧毁了移动火箭发射台。
A storm has made roads treacherous and knocked out power.
一场暴风雨致使公路隐患重重且电力瘫痪。
2、spawn
(鱼、蛙等)产卵
fish species like salmon and trout which go upstream, spawn and then die.
诸如鲑鱼和鳟鱼这样洄游产卵后死去的鱼类
The toads have settled in and accepted the pond as a good spawning ground.
蟾蜍已经在这个池塘里住下来了，把这里当成了理想的产卵地。
产生;造成;引起
Tyndall's inspired work spawned a whole new branch of science.
由廷德尔富有创见的著作发展出了一个崭新的科学分支。
He wrote 54 crime novels, which spawned both movies and television shows.
他写了 54 部侦探小说，很多被改编成了电影和电视剧。
