时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(十二)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute.


1. President-elect Donald Trump 1 says he will nominate retired 2 marine 3 General James Mattis to be Secretary of Defense 4. Trump made this announcement during an election victory rally in Cincinnati.  


2. At least 11 people are now known dead from the Tennessee wildfires. Wildfire first spread from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The park officials say the dry terrain 5 and powerful winds made it virtually impossible to stop. 


3. Authorities in east of Des Moines, Iowa say the crash of a pickup 6 truck into a Walmart appears to be an accident. The crash killed 3 people and injured the driver on Thursday morning. 


4. And researchers in Massachusetts demonstrated that a burning Christmas tree can light an entire room on fire in about a minute. Researchers are promoting holiday safety and stress the importance of watering Christmas trees every day. 


Sandy Kozel,  the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.地面,地形,地图
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • He knows the terrain of this locality like the back of his hand.他对这一带的地形了如指掌。
n.拾起,获得
  • I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。
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a straight fight
acutilingues
aerial gravity
argentiform
aspersorium
asynchronous performance
base depth
bishan
bloodless victory
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categorization of geotechnical project
chlorofibre
Cladopus nymanii
computer security institute
confidant
conyzas
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demi-sel
digital computer circuit
discrete system simulation language
dodge continuous sampling plan
downcoding
Dynomed
elementary fabric
epigenetist
erbium base alloy
estoc
exceptional compact simple Lie group
facializing
Ferdinand Magellan
field-effect transistors
fixed drilling platform
floor of number
frequency-division data link
fuel-injecteds
furnace skelp threading machine
ganoid stage
gormands
gravel culture
group thinking
hohners
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hydrostatic injection
idiophonist
imputt
Indigofera bracteata
insurance firms
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irrigoscop
jolling
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light industrial economics
liturgy
livorno
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macromorphological
Maravi Confederacy
Maud fabric
Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome
medical catastrophe
mooseheads
move downward
mutineers
Ocuri
oil-pneumatic rotary drive
packaged-software
palliasses
paumer
pituitary gland irradiation
quarter house
rahamim
reinospray
reorg
reversal day bottom
Rocky Mountain jay
route relay interlocking
Roxo, C.
rzm
saline taste
satarra twill
SBSO
shaft mixer
shipentine
shunting engine kilometer
side rod bearing
slip-cover fabrics
St-Georges-d'Espéranche
Talladale
tectonic joint
Terry stops
theoretical air
Thermal sensors
tilted teeth
tolner
tramps
unskinned
vessel forceps
Waligiro
watertight floor
zolla
zone of magma