时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(十二)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Cold weather is gripping the northern US, following Monday's snowfall. The national weather service is forecasting temperatures well below zero for a number of northern states.


More than 160 people were reported dead in the Philippines after a powerful typhoon pounded the country. The storm missed Vietnam after hundreds of thousands of people evacuated 1 from its path.


Tens of thousands of people remain without power in Puerto Rico for more than three months after hurricane Maria. The US army corps 2 of engineers says restoring power to the entire island could take until May.


And a fire tore through an antique store in northern Virginia, close to Washington, DC. Firefighters were concerned the building could collapse 3, and left just before a wall came down.


Matt Small, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
2 corps
n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组
  • The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
  • 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。
3 collapse
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
学英语单词
abastarding
abberation
Allo-cortolones
argentine (lamellar calcite)
background bus
Baroghil
bartenders
bassmen
bay lynxes
be down on one's uppers
benoliel
benzoylhypaconine
bimetallic temperature sensor
blood depot
bone box
broncho-cutaneous fistula
Buis-les-Baronnies
cabinet builder
chain well
cold autoantibody
consonantal system
Corrosion Monitoring
crisp lettuces
cycylone separator
death receptor
Dectafiur
Defoe, Daniel
direction of vibration
dovetail-joint
drain terminal
DRF (dose reduction factor)
earnestness
electronhole drop(let)
fiador
firous
general average loss or damage
grant equivalent
hernia needle
Heversham
high-angle boundary
ice-cliff
illiberally
integrated structured design philosophy
Jordan measurable
Kinta
koranimal
Laszcynski zinc process
Lozoyuela
magnetic number
malaria remittens
malprojection
maximum permissible speed
metroxylons
micki
military parade
millimeter wave receivers
Monte Carlo forecast
mutual exclusive
obitzes
operating post
orthogonal bras
pacios
paranephros
particle momentum
Paulinus of Nola
plain-milling machine
pleasant-unpleasant
pontomesencephalic
portal circulation
process interface module
protective food
pseudo-blepharoplast
r&d location
raising cage
re-assembly
reservoir-face volume
rifled pipe
roll turning template
scavenging air box
selected ordinate method
Sequoya
small-power synchronous motor
souls'day
standard throw-blasting charge
stock line in the furnace
strength of flange
Summer of Love
sushi bars
the elect
the priesthood
total costs
traductology
Trisetum tibeticum
two-sided prevention
ultimate stability failure
USB switch
videophile
visible-trade
withdraw the needle
without replacement
working hardening
zygosity diagnosis