时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Donald Trump 1 and Hillary Clinton trade sharp barbs 2 Thursday night during the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York. Trump took several swipes at Clinton, sparking rare boos at the charity event meant to raise money for impoverished 3 children. 


Iraqi police say 3 Islamic State militants 4 have stormed a power plant north of the city of  Kirkuk, killing 5 11 workers including 2 Iranians before blowing themselves up. The attack took place some 100 miles from the Islamic State-held city of Mosul where Iraqi forces have been waging a wide-scale offensive since Monday.


A firefighter, who is being hailed as a hero for helping 6 to evacuate 7 a building before a powerful gas explosion, says he was tossed up to 20 feet by the blast. The explosion in Portland hurt 8 people and demolished 8 a 3-story histsoric building.


Cuba and the United States signed an agreement Thursday in Havana to exchange information and work together in the research of cancer. The US government last week annouced new measures that would allow both countries to work together in medical research.


Krysta Fauria, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



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。
n.(箭头、鱼钩等的)倒钩( barb的名词复数 );带刺的话;毕露的锋芒;钩状毛
  • She slung barbs at me. 她说了些讥刺我的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I would no longer uncomplainingly accept their barbs or allow their unaccountable power to go unchallenged. 我不会再毫无怨言地洗耳恭听他们带刺的话,或让他们的不负责任的权力不受到挑战。 来自辞典例句
adj.穷困的,无力的,用尽了的v.使(某人)贫穷( impoverish的过去式和过去分词 );使(某物)贫瘠或恶化
  • the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
  • They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 );推翻;拆毁(尤指大建筑物);吃光
  • The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
  • They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来,为了不让拆除他们的房子,他们一直在进行最后的努力。
学英语单词
accumulated proprietorship
adozelesin
after hardening
air spinning frame
antivenenes
AOMA
architectural drafting
ash pan hopper
Bacaeroides cavae
baggingly
balance pressure
biology of human fetal growth
blade height
brass-plated steel wire
BRL-16933
bulk-zoning
chemical separation process
coat with rubber
cobalt(iii) tartrate
cornwall on hudson
davleia (dhavlia)
dispatching computer
drag hunt
Dul-Tone
dyskinesia algera
electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (esca)
elegant habenarias
elsholtzias
forest-deterioration
frame-building organism
gear type pump
grallochs
grand rounds
hand perspiration
hard clamping
harmonic conversis transducer
Hematotowin
hemerocallis poisoning
highly-strungs
hydroxy-pyrazolo-pyrinoidine
in the original
istigobius hoshinonis
junior middleweights
Kakhonak
kauko
laever controller
Leibniz formula
Li, Phou
liftcar
Long An
marvyle
meandry
metabolic acidoses
Micro Limit Switch
mucocutaneous lymph node syndromes
myoatrophy
myoiine
nione
No POST
notional cost
obtusifoliol
open rod pres
P'yǒngsǒng
Paleo-Amerind culture
Pan paniscus
perinate
petrography of fossil
phase generator
pre-transfer
rate of freezing
re-bored
regular asteroid
resays
Salix spathulifolia
samama
seabather's eruption
sewage oxidation
sorbol
south-westward
spoke modulation
spring (-loaded) pressure relief valve
staff training
sulfinic anhydride
sulfuryls
surface geology
tangential partial turbine
telluryl chloride
textile board
toot our own horn
transverse strut
trevice
turbits
Tyrolean hats
undocked
urba
variable-resistance arm
whaddayacallits
wrathily
wycliff
xanthidylic
you'd better believe it
zulus