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已有 434 次阅读 2014-01-13 00:32
星期天，就做个review吧。
我把之前六篇文章的单词都摘出来了，保留了部分的上下文，可以帮助记忆。
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel
suffering severe bruising and a "partial fracture of the left interior pelvic ring
walking with the help of crutches
the new "grand coalition"
In what seemed to be an allusion to
Arctic temperatures send chill across US
in southern states better known for more clement weather patterns.
A “weather whiplash” sent temperatures in New York plunging 50 degrees fahrenheit.
Lexington police said Vick was checked by paramedics
Authorities at Toronto airport halted flights at Pearson international airport
fuel was pumping sluggishly
flights resumed in "a trickle"
Fluctuations in the jet stream have led to
10-tonne military vehicles known as "wreckers"
there were no fatalities（fatality） or injuries
largely because motorists（motorist）
public consultations on the deployment of water cannon
it is a direct result of the 2011 riots that started in London
Critics warn it is a step towards the militarisation（militarization） of the police
and could be used to stifle the democratic right to protest
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary stated that
purchasing the interim water cannon
deputy mayor for policing
they are sceptical about the need and effectiveness of water cannon
potentially vulnerable to capture
a promise to dismantle hundreds of labour camps
six enormous labour camps on the outskirts of Beijing
not been placed in any other type of detention
including political and religious dissidents
there appeared scant progress
they had been abruptly released
Standing Committee of the Beijing People's Congress
drug addicts and violent inmates
At its peak, there were around 700 detainees
The inmates were all thieves, pimps or people who had got into fights
the pharoah Akhenaten
this semicircle of barren land
a vast, stricken dust bowl
scattered with sandy hillocks
Rebel, tyrant, and prophet of arguably the world’s earliest monotheistic religion
Official king lists omitted his name
her austerely beautiful painted limestone bust
or the likelihood that he fathered Tutankhamun
I would commission an exhibition about Akhenaten in a trice
his waywardness began to assert itself
who rejoices in the horizon in his identity of light
A number of colossal sandstone statues of the king carved for the temples of the Aten at Karnak
pillars in colonnades lining grand open courts
attest to the drastic convulsions
His crossed arms brandish a crook and a flail
distinctive headdress, and short kilt
distortions of his physiognomy are bizarre beyond belief
His face appears stretched, with high cheekbones
unusually plump lips echo the womanly sensuousness of his broad hips
sags over his waistband
the treatment of the figure appears expressionistic and grotesque
a ruler wracked with disease
kingship scorched free of visual clichés
Views of Akhenaten have oscillated between both extremes
emeritus professor of Egyptology at Cambridge University
he was razing（raze）
making redundant up to 2,000 time-honoured deities
formed the hieroglyph for “horizon”
Ostensibly it was about building a new cult home for the Aten on virgin land
around Amarna’s perimeter
who offered opposition
open-air sanctuaries
a simple disc emanating（emanate） rays that culminated in tiny human hands
the largest temple precinct in the city
can be seen cradling（cradle）
its many-handed benefaction
which to the untutored
here we have something charming, spontaneous, and full of life
Wriggly and curious，they point and turn their heads in an irrepressible fashion
we have stumbled into this particular room
her mother’s glinting jewellery
other protagonists will change
Anna Stevens has excavated the cemetery
the antithesis of the relaxed family scene depicted on the relief in Berlin
nor mention of Akhenaten on finger rings or scarabs or anything
contained “shabti” figurines that were heresy for Atenism
Tutankhamun issued a decree lamenting（lament） the ruinous（ruin+ous） state of the country’s temples
Akhetaten – at its zenith, home to up to 50,000 people
Akhenaten was a madman, a megalomaniac, a dreamer and a despot
we would mention Atenism in the same breath
has even made a few small adjustments to acclimatise（英美拼写不同，acclimatize） to the forecasted heat in Melbourne
The world No.4 has reason to be confident on the blue Plexicushion too
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