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. Bill Cosby was back in court for a hearing in his felony sexual assault case. His lawyers are hoping to suppress several days of testimony 1 Cosby in the accuser's lawsuit 2 a decade ago, as well as a secretly recorded  2005 phone call Cosby had with the mother of his accuser. 


2. Hurricane Newton slammed into the twin resorts of Los Cabos, on the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. The storm knocked out power in some places and stranded 3 tourists huddled 4 in their hotels. 


3.  British Airways 6 travellers are suffering delays globally due to a computer glitch 7 in the check-in systems. This comes a month after U.S carrier Delta 8 Airline suffered a global outage that caused it to cancel 23,00 flights, costing it $100 millions in lost revenue. 


4. A bar in Dubai broke the Guinness world record for the longest domino drop shot. The Huddle 5 Sports Bar and Grill 9 successfully 'dropped' 4,578 glasses of whiskey into energy drink. 


Matthew Burgoyne, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



n.证词;见证,证明
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
n.诉讼,控诉
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
挤在一起(huddle的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
  • We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。
vi.挤作一团;蜷缩;vt.聚集;n.挤在一起的人
  • They like living in a huddle.他们喜欢杂居在一起。
  • The cold wind made the boy huddle inside his coat.寒风使这个男孩卷缩在他的外衣里。
航空公司
  • The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways. 越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机。
  • At one point the company bought from Nippon Airways a 727 jet. 有一次公司从日本航空公司买了一架727型喷气机。
n.干扰;误操作,小故障
  • There is a glitch in the computer program somewhere.这个计算机程序中的某个部分有点小问题。
  • It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine.可能只是一个小故障,重新启动主机就能解决了。
n.(流的)角洲
  • He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
  • The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔,形成了一个三角洲。
n.烤架,铁格子,烤肉;v.烧,烤,严加盘问
  • Put it under the grill for a minute to brown the top.放在烤架下烤一分钟把上面烤成金黄色。
  • I'll grill you some mutton.我来给你烤一些羊肉吃。
学英语单词
a store of goods
absorbed dose rate
acquired neurasthenia
afeard, afeared
Agonus cataphractus
anti-ice system
application of glaze
apptit
Arteria ductus deferentis
at once and
axial bracket arm
bardisters
beam finder
Beeroth
bioarcheological
black rhinocerotes
bouveries
brand name products
buffet the billows
Carex atrofuscoides
CFC flip-flop circuit
closed user group call indicator
constant-level balloon
Corydalis stricta
critical zero
cross licensing agreement
crotch height
crown mean diameter
cube theory
cyclonic spray scrubber
debacker
decayed stable manure
defense industries
Diophantine relation
error-free encoding
exeception list
face guard
Fell system
Flajani's disease
floated finish
fullinwider
gravemarkers
hercogamous flower
high torque rotary drill
htlv-iii
hydraulic tipper
hydrohemia
incipient podzolization
intermodal container transfer facility
JGBs
kailung
Kappa statistic
key wall
lamination surface insulation
Lentföhrden
logic link control
magnetic strain gauge
marvick
minibridge
mosquito larvicide
motion control function
naphthene hydrocabon
nucleus spinalis nervi accessorii
Ohio Company
overall contribution margin ratio
paid debt
part by
pendant control switch
placeables
porters
poured short
Prosopium williamsonii
protophobic solvent
Pteracanthus versicolor
Puccinia uralensis
raw rabbit skins
robatayaki
Routh table
Sarah, Mt.
satellite orbit control
senecioic acid
serratia mnarcescens
SIGUCC
silvervines
spina-bifidas
sternal articulation
subject to being unsold
Syngamus laryngeus
teleonomies
ten-year-older
treatment rationale
Trenaunay
trifunctional group
understitch
uneled
viola striatas
water permeating
wave sample
withery
woderofe
working element