【自制*听力材料重复】（跟艾伦一起学英语）1.17第一期
【词汇】
to strike or beat hard（用于自然灾害）
slam/hammer/batter
affected in an especially negative way
hard-hit
泥石流
mudslide
nonstop=
relentless
not stopping or getting less strong
relentless
her relentless pursuit of perfection
她对完美的不懈追求
The sun was relentless.
太阳还是那么热。
大气的；大气层的related to the earth's atmosphere
atmospheric
US [ˌætməˈsferɪk]
atmospheric pollution/conditions/pressure
大气污染╱状况╱压力
adj.causing severe damage or problems
crippling
And then the embarrassment is going to be crippling, to me, to the luckless company and to the Financial Times.
而后，这种困窘必然给我本人、那家不幸的公司、以及英国《金融时报》造成极大的伤害。
After two years of crippling drought, things were starting to look up in the Middle East.
经历了两年的严重旱灾后，中东地区开始出现转机。
A broad strip or area of something.
a swathe of
In the fall of 2003, U.S. officials watched anxiously as a potent guerrilla resistance rose across broad swaths of northern and central Iraq.’
As we made our way to Minj, emerald green tea plantations and broad swaths of coffee trees revealed evidence of foreign development.
恶劣天气
punishing weather
the act of watching sb/sth carefully in case of possible danger or problems注意；注视；监视；观察
under watch
The police have mounted a watch outside the hotel.
警方已在旅馆外面布置人监视。
I'll keep watch while you go through his papers(= watch and warn you if somebody is coming) .
你查阅他的文件，我来放哨。
The government is keeping a close watch on how the situation develops.
政府正在密切注视着形势的发展。
if people or things flood somewhere,
they go there or arrive there in large numbers大量涌入；蜂拥而出
~ in/into/out of sth
Refugees continue to flood into neighbouring countries.
难民不断涌入邻国。
Telephone calls came flooding in from all over the country.
全国各地的电话像潮水般打来。
reel
But many, reeling from the impact of work stoppages and still-tepid consumer demand, have cut hiring.
但还有很多公司受到停工和消费需求持续低迷的打击，减小了招聘规模。
搭配短语：to reel with sth.
例句：I was reeling with shock.（因为震惊收到冲击）
搭配短语：to reel from sth.
例句：I was still reeling from the shock.（还在冲击里难以平复）
沥青；柏油a thick black sticky substance used especially for making the surface of roads
asphalt
US [ˈæsˌfɔlt]
峡谷
gorge
US [ɡɔrdʒ]
UK [ɡɔː(r)dʒ]
impossible to travel on or through, especially because it is in bad condition or it has been blocked by sth不能通行的（尤指因路况恶劣或被阻断）
impassable
US [ɪmˈpæsəb(ə)l]
UK [ɪmˈpɑːsəb(ə)l]
enemy=
foe
fortress=
fastness
Surrounded by mountains that were impassable for most of the year, it was "a fastness hard for a foreign foe to make his way into. "
由于被在一年的大多数时间里都不能通行的山脉所围绕，事实上这是“很难为外部敌人侵入的堡垒。”
【知识点】
adj前再加一个adj
如：already hard-hit California
adv修饰adj
potentially dangerous
