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。
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3-cholestanone
adenosine monophosphates
Aghiresu
anti-beauty quark
artesian well pump
assignment control number
axiom of parallels
Braxton-Hicks contraction
Browning's phenomenon
Burghley House
buried hildfast
center feeding
Coldbackie
condensational waves
constructive confrontation
current operating performance income statement
Customs Cooperation Council
cystine stone
damosel, damozel
decomposition agent
deflection winding
Dendrobium longicornu
departable
electromagnetostriction
emotion control
fractional monetary units
French horns
funible
glycolaldehydes
Harrington's solution
Hejce
high resolution visible
homosexual conduct
human contact
Hypalon
innubilous
interventions
ionization erosion
ISCOMS
Laprugne
leggett
lob along
lower-energy coast
lysogenic viruses
machilidaes
Magnolia fulva
maintenance mores
medianoscopy
Meier Helmbrecht
mesantoins
Meymeh
myostromin
myotonic muscular dystrophy
narrators
need of growth
news-wall
non-clients
non-system mark time request
ossa japonicum
patro-
pelecanine
Pentecostal Fellowship of North America
Pharmacochalzite
physical educations
pilot-actuated safety valve
poor maintenance of equipment
POS data
pressing powder
pressure, gauge
prostaglandin(s)
radio antenna truck
return chute
rosegolds
sclerotizations
shift driven shaft
short-half-life material
single office exchange
smilacaceous
smooth sequence
snow-slide
soft-touch control
sojo
spasmodized
strength freeboard
strikethrough
Styrax suberifolius
subpixel
succedaneously
tack welding
telecentric light
tension magnet
terminal artery
Time is up
tindered
transfer price
twenty-nines
unmodifiable
uredo microstegii
utilitarianise
vietnam block
vulgarness
zall