时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(九)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. Donald Trump 1 vowed 2 to boost defense 3 spending by tens of billions dollars. His comments came in a Philadelphia speech when he outlined his defense plans. 


2. It took an act of Congress, but World War II pilot Elaine Harmon was finally laid to rest at Arlington national cemetery 4. Harmon was one of the women's service pilots, the group of women flew military aircrafts on non-combat missions. Harmon's family fought to secure spot for the women at Arlington. 


3. Brazil's new president attended his first independence parade. The country is celebrating its independence in amidst its tense political crisis. The festivities come weeks after the permanent ouster of now president Dilma Rousseff. 


4. Venezuela's economic crisis is taking its toll 5 on the nation's pets. Foster chose between feeding themselves or their beloved cats or dogs. Middle-class Venezuelans are abandoning their fellow friends in city parks and shelters. They say they just don't have enough money to feed themselves and their pets. 


Padmananda Rama, 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。
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
学英语单词
AC rectifying type round instrument
aid kit
andative
androgen insensitivity symdrome
arch-support
arnhem ld.
assistant director
aster rectifier circuit
autocollimation camera
bay stop
betafactin
bidirectional bar code
body composition
brevipalpus phoenicis (geijskes)
breweries
building law
Bukama
capital of Ohio
card-level hard disk
cerium hydroxide
chirality phase
coaxial rf calorimeter
commercial par
cristae occipitalis interna
crossways
cyclic storage system
death by lightning
deep well injection
doublehanding
dumbassed
El Seibo
elder (berry)
emit beam
fiftieth-normal
genus dahlias
get one's comeuppance
gigapower
give ... name to
Guidan-Roumji
hot gas recycle process
hull equipment
hydrolyzed yeast
illmen
injection diecasting
leadsman
length of delay
logatome
long-handled spade
malleable detachable chain
Malleco, Prov.de
maximum permissible injection rate
megalomicinA
Middle-Ordovician
moire fringe modulator
Morinda rosiflora
nepenthoides
net profit current year
non-Gaussian peak
noncorrosive
Ouessa
pap.
parallel parts
peirs
percogenic horizon
pin-making machine
pot holes
pressure port
projection generation
pseudosphaeriaceous
quickfit apparatus
quog
reading proof
refocillating
register system
register, set
right of maritime capture
robert bruce mathiass
Salavina
sanok
sardonic grin
scaritoxins
sheepcote
shell effects in fission
single intermediate fly frame
solar-
sound driver
sound-energy density
speed-shifting mechanism
straws in the wind
takbirs
Tauronmsline
tell sb one's mind
translatory resistance
turn key
turnable filter
turning error
unique name
unloader of beet tank
us dag
variable size element
white teacup