时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(八)月


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This is AP News Minute.


A bridge on a highway linking Italy with France collapsed 2 Tuesday in the Italian port city of Genoa. The bridge, spanning an industrial area, crumbled 3 sending vehicles plummeting 4 nearly 150 feet. Officials say at least 22 people were killed and over 30 vehicles were crushed in the collapse 1.


In what police in London call a deliberate act, a man drove his car into a barrier near Parliament, injuring at least two people. Police have arrested the man they say was the driver and say no other suspect has been identified.


A grand jury report on the sexual abuse of children by clergy 5 in 6 Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses identified more than 1000 victims abused by more than 300 priests over a period of decades. Pennsylvania's Attorney General says the grand jury found a systematic 6 cover-up by senior church officials in Pennsylvania and at the Vatican.


And in the Czech Republic, a rare newborn silvery gibbon has gone on public display at the Prague Zoo. The baby gibbon is the second successful gibbon birth at the zoo. The gibbon's number fewer than 4,000 in the wild. For now, the baby remains 7 unnamed until its sex is known.



vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
(把…)弄碎, (使)碎成细屑( crumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 衰落; 坍塌; 损坏
  • He crumbled the bread in his fingers. 他用手指把面包捻碎。
  • Our hopes crumbled when the business went bankrupt. 商行破产了,我们的希望也破灭了。
v.垂直落下,骤然跌落( plummet的现在分词 )
  • Prices are rising, falling, going up, going down, shooting up, plummeting, etc. 物价在上涨、下跌、上升、下落、猛然上涨、骤然下跌等。 来自辞典例句
  • The enemy plane went plummeting into the sea. 敌机直直掉进海里。 来自辞典例句
n.[总称]牧师,神职人员
  • I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example.我衷心希望,我国有更多的牧师效法这个榜样。
  • All the local clergy attended the ceremony.当地所有的牧师出席了仪式。
adj.有系统的,有计划的,有方法的
  • The way he works isn't very systematic.他的工作不是很有条理。
  • The teacher made a systematic work of teaching.这个教师进行系统的教学工作。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
Aconitum incisofidum
aneurose
array of mirrors
audaxes
awning rafter
barunduki
braws
burst the bubble
cancellations
cardiac ganglion
casopitant
castor angle
Catkale
cavanaugh
CERATODONTIFORMES
cernyite
cfis
characteristic (in a floating point representation)
city government
cleaching-net
cloxypendyl
co-ctate vector
confiscation vouch
continental system
cylindrical condition
disk refiner
dolan springs
external gill
Ganges (Ganga R.)
general-support artillery
gliding plane
grain-o-vator
hacking runs
hault-boy
heliographic printing
high rate of success in competition
horse fine breed
iliaco-trochanteric
illustrative
indicated pressure altitude
input port
intercooling cycle
invertible block code
ionization vacuum gauge
jutter
kilolitre
kinanes
lattice calculation
life cycle position
logaoedic
making a dent in
mentionings
mill power draft
miscomputing
misemployment
morolimumab
narais
nerotransmission
nutritive factor
op arts
owners, equity
Pagniello's sign
parallel search storage
PBUS
Pipridae
placelessness
polyprotodent
pop musician
predormitium
present worth cost pattern
proheme
pump packing
ringworm bush
Salix variegata
secondhand
seraphine
shape-memory alloy
short night plant
slant lines
source of obligation
sovereign rating
St George, C.
statistical authority
strepitously
sulci intermedius anterior
Tajo, R. (Tejo, R.)
Tanba-kōchi
Tasaral
the wedding of the gods
thermostabilities
thymotrophic
trachops cirrhosus
Unch'ong-ri
unrolling of container
vision test
walking beam conveyer
want sb to do sth
YMAK
Yuraguana
zhee
Ziha