时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(十一)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1.  A powerful earthquake struck New Zealand's south island, killing 1 at least two people, causing  damaged buildings and infrastructure 2, and prompted emergency services to warm people along the coast to move to a higher ground to avoid the tsunami 3 waves.


2. President-elect Donald Trump 4 is receiving congratulatory phone calls from a member of his former rivals, including Jeb Bush and John Kasich. Trump's senior advisor 5  Kellyanne Conway told reporters in Trump tower on Sunday about the calls, and said the conversation of the president-elect had with Bush was "Incredibly Gracious". 


3. French president Francois Hollande opened a national day of commemoration in France, one year after the Paris attack that killed 130 people. Hollande unveiled the pack covered by a small French flag at the national stadium in memory of the single person killed there and numerous wounded. 


4. Pope Francis gave VIP seats to homeless people at a special mass in St.Peter Basilica. Francis invited them to one of his last masses during a holy year of mercy which ends on November,20th. 


Krysta Fauria, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.


 



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。
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
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。
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
学英语单词
abowd
absolute detector response
actinopyga echinites
amphotericsurfactant
animal nutrition
antihomophobic
Babil, Liwā' al
Bambi buckets
Beragh
boat deck emergency light
boss-eyed
Brylkinia caudata
camsellite
carpentry
carry gate signal
celestial guidance
centripetal development
Charentsavan
Chavica
custom house officer
czarisms
DAEC
decibels related to dipole antenna
diluvia
domestic carriage
doublecloths
drive-in bank
ego-alter theory
facing materials
fernland
field
Fishlake
flat scraper
Grammy Award
group bank
Gulbub
hypothetical sentence
in someone's way
influence on
installation and trial run
interface description language
khoo
Khorinsk
landing gear handle
landvogts
lardless
leave sth alone
lithographic oil
long-run forecast
low-luminosity picture
magyar music
maximum profit programming
medium-duty
mine safety
multi-purpose launching vehicle
Netants
neutron-irradiation-induced embrittlement
newbuild
niche-market
nitrogen protection
noise-reducings
none man
nucleonic equlpment
oak-leaved
packing paper
palaeogene period
person of substance
plane failure
polmica
practising certificate
precision stereoplotter mapping
preferential wage account
price bargain
pull herself together
relative spectral directional reflectance
reversed shovel
road-mix
rusked
so sad
solder bumping
spinulo-
spray smelting
SRBT (single rod burst test)
stara planina (balkan mts.)
Stenokalyx cylindrica
synantherous
syncongestive appendicitis
synoptic map of the sun
Terengganu, State of
the Cenozoic
three-song
transverse thermal current
tropic higher high water interval
ultracommercial
ungrieffulness
unitary invariant
vitalometry
wash off
welds
xylomata
yacca gum
yoked muscle