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
aerobactor
avore
b-mesons
Beli Osǔm
benihana
biological oxidation
blanshard
Blimpish, blimpish
brachykerkic
capric nitrile
cdontoid process
chimb
Clintburn Moor
colimas
d.jones
Datchino
defrags
dernier cri
desuperposition
double welded joint
edge-band gluing machine
edwardian-era
electric acupuncture
emergency facilities
End Scenario
enterologist
esopha- geal mucosa laceration
exact likelihood functions
expiration of contract
extreme pressure grease
falling sphere viscosimeter
fattily
Faïmbé
filter-tipped cigarette
Fischbach bei Dahn
flea-collar
Frederize
free blade
fulminating infectious disease
gas charging valve
gilf
grew-hound
gudbrandsdalen
gum it up
hanging sash
hepato-lentieular degeneration
hydraulic press
ice-breakings
indexing hole
information benefit
institutional advancement
IP addressing
isochronous distortion
kindness
laleral disc
left precaval vein
madri
Melian
mis-representation
Miyako-rettō
mobile diaphragm liquid manure pump
nayder
nile blue sulphate
non-local field theory
obsidian
one-til
oscillation volume
piringer-kuchinka(syndrome)
Poisson's density function
poly (perfluoropropene)
polystichum alcicorne (bak.)diels
poppy family
printed board
pure application LISP
relaying voltage transformer
righters
Rock Pile
saurichthyid
savicevics
schaundle
semi-total station distance theodolite
sexuss
soda-alum (sodium alum)
spread thin
sub-arterial road
sucked into
supranational structure
surveyor of taxes
SUSPOP (Suspension Power Only Pile)
take for a bundle
thermocouples
thryonomyidae swinderianus
thuggery
tjokroaminoto
trypanosomatid
tumbledowns
urea resin glue
width-wise
wrestle with the question
year-to-year growth rate
Yellow-Backed
yevgeny