时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(一)月


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 1. All 10 US navy sailors detained by Iran when their two boats allegedly drifted into Iranian waters were freed on Wednesday. The swift release quickly defused what could have escalated 1 into an international crisis. 


 
2. Secretary of State John Kerry met with refugees at the International Rescue Committee in Maryland Wednesday. Earlier, he announced the US is expanding its refugee admission program to help more people from Central America escape violence.    
 
3. South Korea is calling for increased sanctions against North Korea, following last week’s nuclear test by the North. Meanwhile, North Korean state media aired photos on Wednesday of an award ceremony where Kim Jong-un congratulated workers who contributed to what Pyongyang said was a hydrogen bomb test. 
 
4. And just two and a half years after its launch, Al Jazeera America announced it is shutting down. The offshoot of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera cable news network will stop operating by April 30th. 
 

1 escalated
v.(使)逐步升级( escalate的过去式和过去分词 );(使)逐步扩大;(使)更高;(使)更大
  • The fighting escalated into a full-scale war. 这场交战逐步扩大为全面战争。
  • The demonstration escalated into a pitched battle with the police. 示威逐步升级,演变成了一场同警察的混战。
学英语单词
active control tech nology
automation of cargo handling
axis of figure
bainitic transformation
bibliotherapist
blind bombing zone
Bromus magnus
bullock hearts
butt-jointed shell ring
Bükkzsérc
cadence detection
Callicarpa kochiana
chable
chondrogen
columnwise
combined arms team
computer network
contrary intention
corpora liberum pericardii
crosslevel
dar pahn
diphasic titration
dislocation mucleation
equidecomposability
expendable drone
external selection
extreme ultraviolet
fictious person
flat called
Francisco Jose de Goya
Gafac surfactant
give dosage form
ground robin
Herford
hey
isolation between inputs
Jerseytown
jimmying
Kadavu Island
kidney essence
king matker
legal discipline
locator variable
madioxytheria formosana
menformon
metal fuelled
mucolic acids
non-convex quadratic programming
nondelivered
North-West Frontier Province
ordnance engineering
os pharyngeum inferius
Osmoxylon
outlay for liquidation
pain receptor
panting girder
Peacekeeper missile
pick-up coil
pill maker
ply strain
plywood-covered
Porto Grande
pottled
predicting relation
Proxylide
Quipar, R.
rafter
rashie
registro
reticulated vein
shoaib
single row ball bearing with ring seal
six panel door
SL-SD
slip of pen
smooth approach
spectral source density
spray decoration
stalking horses
starter nozzle
stratified one-stage cluster sampling
strepsigonia diluta takamukui
subcutaenous calcareous granuloma
surface of translation
tension-active element
Teza
threa
thump-thump
track balance
transient radiation damage
true fibre
V die
venin-antivenin
ventilating tube
waveshape
within-participants design
woman on the beach
Yedineniya, Ostrov
yellowfins
ymesurid
Zeddam