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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abb
advertising color
affranchise
altimetres
anthropomorphically
antituberculous
apparent azimuth angle
birch bark
Blumeopsis flava
boiler-plate
bowlster
Carex maubertiana
cascaded decoder
catoptricss
cave bats
closelier
Cogas
commercial and administrative center
compact object
control pulse
crew shifting system
custody of exhibits
cystophrhisis
debossing
desfedrin
Detectable Object
diagram setup
differential-valve
dilatency
dimensioning scale
distributing section
epichloronydrin
error of estimation
Euonymus xylocarpus
expelling pus and promoting granulation
frost-making
funerea
fuse setting
grudgingnesses
have been here before
high level bend
honduras rosewoods
Hookean solid
in narrow circumstances
katling
Kehr's operation
Kholkhol
leader cloth
left-handed engine
light curve
Machuca
mastoideus Processus
mean meridian
moire calender
moot
negative magnetic poles
nitrolycerin
nonimplanted
North Hero
OPPolzer's sign
organic-depolarizer cell
orient-
OSRD
outpedanting
overweave
page mode dram
peak concentration
perikaryon(pericaryon)
photoadditions
plastic breather bag
plasticity range
point-designation grid
pointy-headed
prodorit
project aid
rearrangement of series
roinish
Saint-Yrieix
Schlumbergera baridgesii
siting
source code generator
source of power
speckie
spongy protein
Stalowa Wola
start-stop characteristics
static thermal techniques
syphilid frambesiformis
Tanintharyi Yoma
tarred paper
three-way drag
TM (tape module)
tolene formula
Tupistra pingbianensis
uncomelier
unsettlingness
urethrdomy
wafer biscuit
wire protocol
xysts
zone-tailed hawk
zootope