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。
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active testing
ariza
aspen
at the slope
barong Tagalogs
be on the road to sth
biquadratic
blackmouth
blow efficiency
break the mold
caju rains
car antenna
carbon deposit
card-board computer
cell nucleus
cell volume
change-back procedure
chaulmoogra
Cock Bridge
comfits
congestion surcharge
copra meal
crellids
CYNAP
diazoacridine
direct mail
dunnage report
Eniwetok
fan laws
fietje
filmnoir
finishing machines
flicker principle
flint-coated paper
flow detection
folk wisdom
fumigation-washing therapy
Indie-kids
interplane engine nacelle
iteophylla
jimenezs
kiebel
L.Heb.
level supervision device
light transmissivity
lipid
load reserve
load-magnitude
Madd.
make the best of both worlds.
male-tee
Margam
maximum short take-off and landing weight
microcosmographies
mid-parent index
mistranscription
national health insurance statistics
naucorioid
negative list
overhead traffic
patwardhans
place in service
point particle
poly(vinyl chloride)
postsynaptic portion
Pretty Lips
profile paper
program conversion
rationing equipment
readable record
regentrification
relative centrifugal force
ridgepole
robart
ruding
salamstone
sarrats
sedimentation method
siliceous sand stone
silt drain
slub reep
spool stroke
standard transportation commodity code (stcc)
steering drum
stock lone
swivel sister block
synthetic-pattern generator
thirst fever
time-temperature control
to a to the turn of a hair
to-when
toxicaemia
tubular tissue
tumorous
Tyretskite-1Tc
unreactable
unresoved problem
viral replication
walk one's round
western - style food
working theory
zoolander