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


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. Donald Trump 1 says he will never abandon his White House bid, rejecting a growing backlash from republican leaders who disavowed  the GOP presidential nominee 2. The controversy 3 comes as Trump was caught on tape bragging 4 about predatory advances on women in 2005. He apologized in a video statement and said he was wrong.  


2. A weakening hurricane Matthew struck Georgia and Carolina on Saturday in what appears to be the last leg of its march up to the east coast. The hurricane was blamed for at least ten deaths in the U.S and hundreds were left dead in Matthew's wake in Haiti. 


3. German authorities on Saturday said a successful control detonation 5 was carried out after investigators 6 found several hundreds grams of "highly volatile 7" explosives in an apartment. Officials say a Syrian man was being sought in connection with planning a bombing attack. 


4. A husband and wife from Maine are this year's winner of the North American wife-carrying championship. They will compete in the world championship in Finland next year. Elliot and Giana Storey bested 43 other couples to win the 17th annual competition. 


Krysta Fauria, the 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.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
n.争论,辩论,争吵
  • That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
  • We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
v.自夸,吹嘘( brag的现在分词 );大话
  • He's always bragging about his prowess as a cricketer. 他总是吹嘘自己板球水平高超。 来自辞典例句
  • Now you're bragging, darling. You know you don't need to brag. 这就是夸口,亲爱的。你明知道你不必吹。 来自辞典例句
n.爆炸;巨响
  • A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade.街垒传来一阵骇人的爆炸声。
  • Within a few hundreds of microseconds,detonation is complete.在几百微秒之内,爆炸便完成了。
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.反复无常的,挥发性的,稍纵即逝的,脾气火爆的;n.挥发性物质
  • With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定,投资冒着很大的风险。
  • His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱,喜怒无常。
学英语单词
admission cam
after someone's blood
AID-like syndrome
amical
apply the screw to someone
arch principle
awous
back-up reference station
Baikanthpur
ballymores
bead plane
berth number plate
bibliomanian
bostrychid
cargo spotting attachment
ceiling crab
central-local
chinovariscite
colligations
compacting width measurement
Corydalis glycyphyllos
crack driving force
critical distance
culinarian
dc beta
delerious
Digital Touch
Dirksland
disk magazine
double-precision quantity
drop and continue
emphysema of lungs
flightpath computer
frictiongear
fuel transfer gate
funiculus ventralis
graphics projector
Harvey County
horizontal filter-well
hourglass tumor
hybridizability
hydraulic blow
interface composition
isordil
jiu-jitsu
joachims
Kolbe-schmitt synthesis
labour statute
laser receiver
leese
Lepontic
Lysimachia nanpingensis
Magola
market-watcher
mean high water spring tide
modern analysis
money wage rate
multiple resonant line
Neoliponyssus
nuclear energy change
occupational therapies
panicles
paroxysmal hyperthyroidism
peak overlap
Pentraeth
Platanthera tipuloides
positive driver type supercharger
preslaughter weight
private health policy
pyramiding
raster irregularity
reflowings
Reuchlin, Johann
rhinoscleroma bacillus
root-bark of tree peony
rotation net
second-stage graphitization
selective reinforcement
semiconductor heat conductivity
Semo
shaped pressure squeeze board
skogens
sneeze at
sponge upon
state-system
static brush
substra
sx.
symmetrical short-circuit
take-and-bake
tea plant pruning machine
tell its own story
time interval selector
to initialize
tomika
tonnage laws
traveloguers
tuberculum dentale
ungratefulness
viraginity
write once read many optical disc
zomaxes