时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(八)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught fire and crashed in central Texas on Saturday. Authorities say it's likely they are no survivors 1. Investigators 2 are still working to determine the number of victims. 


2. Pope Francis urged hundreds of thousands of young people to reject a "Couch Potato" existence, and instead engage in social activism and politics to create a more just world. They were gathered in a Polish meadow as part of World Youth Day, a global catholic celebration. 


3. Protesters took to the streets of Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir despite a curfew, following the killing 3 of a top rebel leader earlier this month. Police officers retaliated 4 by firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the pro-Pakistan protesters. 


4. Members of the Olympic Refugee team visited the Christ the redeemer statue in Rio De Janeiro,  a day after touching 5 down in Brazil. A group of ten athletes from South Sudan, Syria, Congo and Ethiopia will complete under the Olympic flag, as the first refugee team ever in the history of the Olympics. 


Norreen Nasir, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
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》
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
v.报复,反击( retaliate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • When he once teased her for her inexperience, she retaliated. 有一次,他讥讽她没有经验,她便反唇相讥。 来自辞典例句
  • The terrorists retaliated by killing three policemen. 恐怖分子以杀死三名警察相报复。 来自辞典例句
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
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accruement
aerial inductance
afetal pregnancy
al-naimi
alkaline denaturation
anesthesiology
angular bevel gear pair
annunciator system
antempered
apparent storage
archaeobotany
auxiliary feedwater pump
balance patch
chimney-pieces
contract labo(u)r
crest of tibia
Cycas szechuanensis
cylinder separator
design pattern
determining work method
Dienheim
dimension of closed grab
dimethylpolysiloxanes
discount of bill
dismore
Display Data Channel
diveroli
dorsispinal veios
doussepers
drain control device
EBITA
economization on man power
espousers
EthD-1
exercise of right
eyelet fabric
febli
file transliteration
filippinoes
fimbrilla
floating point underflow trap
free alongside ship
gave instructions to
glycolpropylene
good sense
health physics research reactor
Herba Duchesnea Indica
highest-quintile
homomolecular preteins
horn-book
imprisonment reaction
in the crowd
in-house counsels
inholdings
joseph goebbelss
mailing list
Majorana microphone
marriage ceremonies
mean absolute magnitude
mercury ion
milled-tooth bit
nonprisoner
nonvirgins
on roder
oppedal
opposingly
Ourofane
peak demand capacity
plant operations control center
pollute with
protein score
pseudo random number
quality of commodity
radiochemical neutron activation analysis
read/write random-access memory
rectangular-shaped pulse
registered trust company
religious movement
resource planning
revive a barred right
right half back
rocketmakers
sambaqui
self-supporting capacity of surrounding rock
sentence accent
shallow-pocket classifier
sliding slot linkage
spark igniter
submerged arc
superhots
swooshed
taoiseaches
taspinic acid
top of overcast
transverse stratification
undulation
unmixedness factor
variable phase shifter
WNLF
xonvergiometer
Yekaterininka