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
adder-subtracter
adjustable voltage generator
Atrato
baulk colour
beam-control(led)
Beaverdell
black mordant
bonesman
brightened
carrier fibre
cavalierisms
CEGEP
circular knit hosiery
combination folder
corduroylike
Cosigüina
cyberhug
Dasayatidae
decationizing
depth glider
distinguishableness
disturbance of affectivity
dramaturgs
dynamic killing zone of warhead
Emily's List
fabulator
fasyll
fitchew
flat tree dahlia
general network of telecommunication channel
general rule
get to business
hapkeite
head trackman
heart urchin
helifishing
hiland
hose type pump
imaginary cone
impostury
indirect photometric titration
individual request for patent family
ingeneration
IP (item processing)
iron copper catalyst
kinglikest
Kitay-gorod
kreigs
land grid array
large-leaved cucumber tree
Lauchringen
licentia
Lisboan
living-room
luner
macumba
mathematical constraint
modulation range
multiple factor experiment
nanocapacitors
nobilite
non-hermetic
opal jasper
ovariosalpingectomy
parallelization tester
performance curve
Perkinsian
pilularias
poly-crystal
positive-ion ray
rateably
reality therapy
religious syncretism
root-mean-square percent error
row shooting
run past
sale by tender
sanyassi
sausagefest
sejong
Set Default
sluthering
speech synthesizer
strain hardenability
superagile
symmetric communications
teach-yourself
thiocarbodiazono
ticking
top collector
transearth
transient heat conduction
transport linkage
tridymite
truthsman
turnover of current assets
variation of rate
vertical tray conveyors
wrongful occupation of an estate
xenothermal deposit
zanthoxylene
zenith point