时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(六)月


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This is AP News Minute.


President Donald Trump 1 signed a bill into law Friday designed to make it easier to fire Department of Veterans Affairs employees. Trump cast the signing as a fulfillment of a campaign promise to dismiss VA workers who let the nation's veterans down.


Police are considering manslaughter charges related to the fire at a West London apartment tower that killed at least 79 people. In its most detailed 2 briefing on the investigation 3, the Metropolitan 4 Police confirmed residents' suspicions that the June 14th inferno 5 at Grenfell Tower was touched off by a refrigerator fire.


Four people were injured, one seriously, when a double-decker tour bus got stuck inside a tunnel under a Paris bridge. It happened when the bus took a detour 6 due to a major display of sporting events.


And the Dallas Zoo is sharing video of a gorilla 7 that zoo officials say has a passion for splashin', and his moves look like he is dancing.


Kelly Daschle, 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。
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
adj.大城市的,大都会的
  • Metropolitan buildings become taller than ever.大城市的建筑变得比以前更高。
  • Metropolitan residents are used to fast rhythm.大都市的居民习惯于快节奏。
n.火海;地狱般的场所
  • Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno.救援人员奋力营救大火中的受害者。
  • The burning building became an inferno.燃烧着的大楼成了地狱般的地方。
n.绕行的路,迂回路;v.迂回,绕道
  • We made a detour to avoid the heavy traffic.我们绕道走,避开繁忙的交通。
  • He did not take the direct route to his home,but made a detour around the outskirts of the city.他没有直接回家,而是绕到市郊兜了个圈子。
n.大猩猩,暴徒,打手
  • I was awed by the huge gorilla.那只大猩猩使我惊惧。
  • A gorilla is just a speechless animal.猩猩只不过是一种不会说话的动物。
学英语单词
abridgment, abridgement
Adams, Abigail Smith
alphabetic puncher
amount of thrust augmentation
anemogamy
Arcila
articulatio coxaes
associativity
aunicornist
Barpeta
bepinched
Blangslev
blanket pile
blue cross
bonds market
bottom cooling
Ch'olti'
chippings
chukchi-kamchatkan
close-packings
club-haul
coke screenings
communal habitat
crimp mesh
cupola spark arrester
cyclobenzaprine hydrochloride
damage zone
decline all responsibility for
Defrine
disasterproof building
display greenhouse
ehrenfelds
ejectation
embolized
engine-speed indicator
feel as if
flame ablation
gas fuel pipe
high-end
high-temperature high-speed development
homicide death
house cat
incestancy
interstellar medium
ion complex
ionospheric tide
irresultive
Jew
kazakhstani monetary units
klydonograph
layer number of mesh
line of bearing
list of signatories and parties
loadsaddle
lumpy line
make a quick exit
Metasympatol
Mucuna capitata W. et A.
n.d.o.
non-competitiveness
open up industries
ouabaio
peg-tooth harrow
people-in
piminodine
promist
punctiforme
rare earth glass
rent a car and go as you please
running on time
s-shaped inclusion
Sawa, Sungai
scintillator liquid
senatus academicus
Senecio drukensis
sennets
Siberian mole
single-shot computer
sloped off
slump-earth flow
soilages
spark plasma
speed measuring method
spin echo refocusing
square-wave voltage
stock broking
stubbornina
superior lumbar triangle
sweaterdresses
three wire cord
thron
Tilichiki
to rights
Torzhkovskaya Gryada
trems
triacontarugate
universal adult suffrage
valve seta insert replacing tool
water-solution enriched reactor
wide neck container
wien's law (of radiation)
working kilometer