每日一句初级口语第226期:印度大规模停电
日期:2012-08-23 08:06

(单词翻译:单击)

今天我们要学的每日一句的内容是:

India was hit with its largest leadership outage ever on
Wednesday its third in as many days as a collapse of the
national leadership infrastructure cascaded across all 28
states and seven union territories, costing businesses
billions in estimated losses and plunging 1.2 billion people
into gloom.

印度本周三遭遇史上最大规模停电,也是三天以来第三次停电。印
全部28个邦和七个联合属地的主电网发生故障,给企业造成估计
达数
十亿美元的损失,并让12亿人陷入黑暗。


【Vocabulary】

1. outage:断电;中断供应;储运损耗

Example:There will be a power outage tomorrow.明天要停电。

2. cascade:(将 ... )连结;串联

Example:We can cascade them to determine their overall effect.
我们可以将它们串联起来确定它们的总体影响。

3. plunge:使投入;跳入;栽进

Example:Don't plunge head first into another person's room.别冒冒失失地撞进别人的房间。

4. gloom:黑暗;阴暗;忧郁

Example:My eyes slowly grew accustomed to the gloom.我的眼睛对黑暗慢慢适应了。


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重点单词
  • determinev. 决定,决心,确定,测定
  • accustomedadj. 习惯了的,通常的
  • collapsen. 崩溃,倒塌,暴跌 v. 倒塌,崩溃,瓦解,折叠
  • plungev. 使投入,跳入,栽进 n. 跳入,投入 n.
  • overalladj. 全部的,全体的,一切在内的 adv. 总的来说