时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


At least 17 people are known dead from Florida to Virginia in the aftermath of hurricane Michael. More than 300,000 homes and businesses remained without power in Florida and Georgia Sunday.


Retail 1 giant Sears has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 2 protection. The filing is expected to impact tens of thousands of workers.


International business leaders are pulling out of the upcoming investment forum 3 in Saudi Arabia. That country is dealing 4 with growing pressure after the disappearance 5 and suspected murder of Saudi Aribian journalist Jamal Khashoggi.


A pilot is dead after a small plane crashed into a home in Payson, Arizona. No injuries were reported on the ground. The cause of the crash is under investigation 6.



1 retail
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
2 bankruptcy
n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
3 forum
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
4 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
5 disappearance
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
6 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
学英语单词
a person of few words
air-actuated jaw
alginate propylene glycol
alignment interaction
apple iigs
Arabidopsis thaliana
arenella
audio coding 3
ballmilling
beater sizing
becon
beyond repair
bit-slice word processor
brain-bendings
callums
cannonize
clap someone on the back
container handling vehicle
crank-and-rocker mechanism
divergent spread
dubious-looking
dupal
dynamic crash recovery of balanced tree network
electrode tips
external feedback type oscillator circuit
fertilizer unit
fibre optic array
financial implications
first-contact
free-volume model
fundamental system
get one's oar in
global sustainability
goal-oriented
Gobēlē Wenz
growth method
have a ready tongue
heavy weapon carrier
hemerocallis citrina baroni var. citrina
hexichol
hydrargyrum aceticum
hypo-alkalinity
indirect principal offender
industrializers
iPSC
jetty mounted radar
just kill me
keplerian element
key sending
lever-type piston gauge
lillesands
log basin
long-form bills of lading
Mamoudzou
marchant
melzer
milkweed family
mis-sale
mold core
molfarnate
motor-generator locomotive
Nephelium mutabile
nevinson
nonpacket mode
nonstoried combium
out-active
pancreatic bud
paradigm shift
plan of instruction
playing cat and mouse
Polygonum criopolitanum
post-dose
press officer
quanta electronics
red amaranth
red handed
salatas
same frequency interference
second order linear system
seigniorage
self-appreiation
Senecio taitungensis
Southaven
Stanford-Binet test
state-selecting device
Strega
swivelling countershaft
technical terms
temperature sense
the way things are going
thioaldehyde
time to kill
top-lines
two class
ultar
unaffecting
under color addition
uniliteral
unsecured accounts
velifical
West Carrollton
ybound