时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2015(五)月


英语课

 This is AP News Minute.


 
Officials are searching for a US military helicopter that went missing in Nepal while delivering earthquake aid to victims. Defense 1 officials say there is no indication the chopper crashed. The country was dealt its second major earthquake in less than 3 weeks Tuesday, killing 2 at least 30 people and injuring more than a thousand.
 
In Sochi, Russia, Secretary of State John Kerry talking diplomacy 3 with President Vladimir Putin and foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. Kerry hopes to gauge 4 Russia's support for enforcing a ceasefire in Ukraine and encourage Russia to support a political transition in Syria.
 
Verizon annoucing it will buy AOL for 4.4 billion dollars. In addition to its dwindling 5 Internet service, the communications giant will also gain control over all AOL-owned websites like the Huffington Post and TechCrunch.
 
In Houston, Texas, the city's zoo is preparing the grand opening of a new gorilla 6 exhibit--7 western lowland gorillas 7 have been brought to the Houston zoo, the first time the zoo has cared for the species in more than a decade.
 
Robert Bumsted, The Associated Press with AP News Minute.

n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
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.外交;外交手腕,交际手腕
  • The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
  • This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
v.精确计量;估计;n.标准度量;计量器
  • Can you gauge what her reaction is likely to be?你能揣测她的反应可能是什么吗?
  • It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。
adj.逐渐减少的v.逐渐变少或变小( dwindle的现在分词 )
  • The number of wild animals on the earth is dwindling. 地球上野生动物的数量正日渐减少。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority. 他正努力适应自己权力被削弱这一局面。 来自辞典例句
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。
n.大猩猩( gorilla的名词复数 );暴徒,打手
  • the similitude between humans and gorillas 人类和大猩猩的相像
  • Each family of gorillas is led by a great silverbacked patriarch. 每个大星星家族都由一个魁梧的、长着银色被毛的族长带领着。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
abdications
administeration
age life depreciation method
analysis procedure
anti-illiteracy
aqueous-influx phenomenon
artemisia somae somai
atomic energy laboratory
attributive character
banded stone
base-stripping emulsion
be sent to the block
billeting capacity
bronchos
carbonated shrinkage
causal message logging
central control line
chlorochromates
clefts incomplete lip
coggon
collective title
Conestoga wagon
constitutional protection
counterfeit detector pen
covelline (covellite)
cymopol
dealing-room
deep draft lock
disgorges
domicile of choice
Dumfries and Galloway Region
electronic tunning
esoft
feminazism
fluorinated poly (arylene ether sulfides)
footage number
found fault
four-tape
freebee
full circle shovel
genetic profilings
glovelike
green sky
green-form
heat exhaustion
hematomphalocele
ilonze
immaterialized
ingoing
insertional translation
jirga,jirgah
john fitzgerald kennedies
kcal/s
Koondrook
labyrinth flameproof joint
lawrenceville
lifekeepers
load of roadway
loan commitments
loss density
low-wageds
man-s
manyness
Meteghan
monochoroacetone
monothalamous
online selling
orphan medicine
oste(o)arthrotomy
pageantlike
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
phase boundray potential
plummily
pressure pin
rc (recorder/controller)
reflex symptom
response type
San Timoteo
Saussurea henryi
set of sieves
shot clock
single-heterojunction
snapping the line
soundages
stand watch
standard molar gibbs free energy
sulphinylpyruvate
suppressed-carrier transmission
tapered deep-bar squirrel-cage rotor
telecoils
tetraketide
thawrtouer
told me off
torbjorns
trichloroethylene process
tsiolkovsky
update rate
uranium y
valve guide shoulder
what the
yea, yea, nay, nay
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