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.


Travel woes 1 could linger for days after a power outage shut down Atlanta's airport for much of Sunday. More than a thousand flights were grounded. Many people were stranded 2 on planes and in dark terminals.


Calmer winds have given fire crews in California's Santa Barbara County a break, as they continue to battle an enormous wildfire. Wind gusts 3 reaching 70 mph had added to the extreme fire danger in other parts of the state.


President Trump 4 says he's not considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller. However, the President did criticize Mueller's staff for obtaining thousands of e-mails from Trump's transition team. Mueller's spokesman says they were all obtained properly.


And US senator John Mccain has returned home to Arizona and is expected to miss the GOP tax bill vote. A doctor at the National Institutes of Health says, the Arizona republican was treated for a viral infection and is responding positively 5 to brain cancer treatment.


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



1 woes
困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉
  • Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
  • She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。
2 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
3 gusts
一阵强风( gust的名词复数 ); (怒、笑等的)爆发; (感情的)迸发; 发作
  • Her profuse skirt bosomed out with the gusts. 她的宽大的裙子被风吹得鼓鼓的。
  • Turbulence is defined as a series of irregular gusts. 紊流定义为一组无规则的突风。
4 trump
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。
5 positively
adv.明确地,断然,坚决地;实在,确实
  • She was positively glowing with happiness.她满脸幸福。
  • The weather was positively poisonous.这天气着实讨厌。
学英语单词
accessory fissure
Afonso I
Angelrest
Araia
archidont
atmospheric radiation budget
baby makers
barium chloride poisoning
batable property
be awake
beleaguer
blackshoe
blue-eyed African daisy
by fire
Cavalli Is.
cereal science
Cissus adnata
clostocin
coarse thread
connecticut r.
counts per turn
Cyperus involucratus
DAW (dry active waste)
deep oil
disprovide
eldrinson
errant conception
esculentas
excision-junction
fidelity card
fixed loans unsecured
flashing back to
foot pedals
fruit dove
Galata
group occulting light
HC2/bikunin
herbar
hertle
high pressure sterilization
Homer Armstrong Thompson
hydraulic selector
hydrautorque-hinge hatchcover
isocortices
karl wilhelm siemenss
khadr
Khorram Darreh
Kichai
Komshtitsa
Lactuca sibirica
leatheries
lefthanded screw
let a contract
level of access
loading of air pollutant
Lunderskov
Marasesti(Marasheshty)
micorhymenopteron
milk ability
mirror punishment
molecular sieve separation
monotriglyphs
multipath simulator
multipresent
muscular rigidity
night colour television
numerous small and low echoes
ozarkite (thomsonite)
p - type semiconductor
passata
pepine
pin electrode
piston stop
Potamogetonales
progressive amaurosis
prutzman
punky wood
radices gelsemii
radio-photo-luminescence
Rami nasales interni
rappelers
rates relief
resistive two-terminal element
resource allocation and network scheduler
run amok
running balk
scenting
Sears, Paul Bigelow
semen hyoscyami
setting - up exercises
singles bars
small gain theorem
steel slab bridge
still wave shearing force
stress relieving
Supertherm
tourbillion
Tótszerdahely
us seal
vinylic foam
wearying of
yucheng