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
a rash advance
absorptive wavemeter
antiurbanization
APD
Beau's disease
block number
blocking of record
bolt heating
cacothanasia
center ga(u)ge
chlorophthalmus borealis
cigar cutter
clinkering rate
coincidence of a correspondence
combine ground clearance
convergent beam radiation
copying volume
crocic acid
distribution servers
dommed
downbound
downhole tool
dronne (la dronne riviere )
drop-vie
energy-absorbing bumper system
euonymus nana sieb.
Euroyen Bond
extrapolation number
file inquiry technique
flank development program
flushingly
foamest
Fu Hsi
gasoline gas
gear change shift fork
goal defence
Gorgonian
higher income
HRIR
Hsiuyen jade
hylic tumor
International Sea Bed Authority
inventory ratio of finished goods to sales
josefite
la camargue
leaking
least square data fitting
leeds-united
leucocoprinus fragilissimus
load-line mark
lubricating can
lyonnaisest
make an apology to sb for sth
manufacturer's output insurance
metal oxide semiconductor integrated circuit
minimum disruptive voltage
mixed cellularity type of Hodgkin's disease
myelinoma
ninny-hammer
nonfossiliferous
NP antigen
Omaheke Reg.
oneirogmus
outbreak herbivore
panel heating
parathion
particle discrimination
phylogenesis
pre-political
pretrial discovery procedure
privy parts
quartzitic sandstoone
ramp excursion
ramus (pl. rami)
reduced annuity
reinties
relivable
retention of title clause
risk-lovings
segresome
selective block sequence
sodium camphorate
solar magnetospheric system of coordinates
special subdivision
sphincterial
spindle cap
Stellaria wushanensis
stir speed
subsigning
tangerines
tashlich
tmb
tokostome
total resistance of ACV
totalizer for rain
tow-phase current
trapezoidal truss
twilt
under-pin
uxoriousnesses
vacuum-chamber dimensions
vestigial sideband transmitter