时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2015(十)月


英语课

 This is AP News Minute. 1. In a stunning 1 move, house majority leader Kevin McCarthy has withdrawn 2 his candidacy for speaker, and the election for the position has been postponed 3. Republican lawmaker said McCarthy told colleagues at the start of the GOP conference he was not the right person for the job. 2. A US airman who helped thwart 4 a French train attack is in a California hospital after being stabbed in Sacramento. An Air Force spokesman said the airman first-class Spencer Stone is in stable condition and that the attack was being handled by local law enforcement. 3. Volkswagen’s top US executive has apologized for the emission 5 related scandal engulfing 6 the automaker. Volkswagen American CEO Michael Horn told a House subcommittee his company’s admission of rigging diesel 7 cars to bypass emission test was ‘deeply troubling’.


4. And in China, tourism officials are closing a newly opened glass walkway in central China after cracks appeared in the structure. The closure happened at the height of the weeklong National Day holiday.

adj.极好的;使人晕倒的
  • His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
  • The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。
vt.收回;使退出;vi.撤退,退出
  • Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
  • All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。
vt.& vi.延期,缓办,(使)延迟vt.把…放在次要地位;[语]把…放在后面(或句尾)vi.(疟疾等)延缓发作(或复发)
  • The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
  • The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。
v.阻挠,妨碍,反对;adj.横(断的)
  • We must thwart his malevolent schemes.我们决不能让他的恶毒阴谋得逞。
  • I don't think that will thwart our purposes.我认为那不会使我们的目的受到挫折。
n.发出物,散发物;发出,散发
  • Rigorous measures will be taken to reduce the total pollutant emission.采取严格有力措施,降低污染物排放总量。
  • Finally,the way to effectively control particulate emission is pointed out.最后,指出有效降低颗粒排放的方向。
adj.吞噬的v.吞没,包住( engulf的现在分词 )
  • A photographer had fused the lights,engulfing the entire house darkness. 一位摄影师把电灯的保险丝烧断了,使整栋房子陷于黑暗当中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • A professional photographer had fused the lights,engulfing the entire house in darkness. 一位职业摄影师把保险丝烧断了使整所房子陷于黑暗当中。 来自辞典例句
n.柴油发动机,内燃机
  • We experimented with diesel engines to drive the pumps.我们试着用柴油机来带动水泵。
  • My tractor operates on diesel oil.我的那台拖拉机用柴油开动。
学英语单词
-idium
alprostadil
augmented core print
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.
bijoutiers
blute
book-printing
bridge of gold/silver
cashpoint
cassava spun silk
central eruption
chain-graph
chord
colo(u)r cine positive film
combined method
cycloplegics
debono
dextrinosan
didermoma
dinitro-phenyl-morphine
dot ohart
drift-net
emission microscopy
engine detonation indicator
engineer's bell
environmental therapy
esterastin
exponential theory
fair-complexioned
farafra oasis
flat lead
forestry gantry crane
form family
greentech
guven
hana
hickory-stick fracture
howetts
hyanniss
hydraulic analogue
hydroxyapophyllite
illiquid assets
inclusion conjunctivitis virus
inundated mine
isotropic random field
jugular plexus
kohlerias
labeled block
Ladder sign
leave a great deal to be desired
lightgreen
mad staggers
maynardville
meontic
merce cunningham studio
mold dryer
monocrystallinetype
must-read
near singing
nominal audit
normal style
Obezine
one-component system
organic centre
paint sth. out
Palo Alto Airport
particle fluence ratemeter
perforated plate
polypyknotic
polystyrene bead
post-incremented
potexviral
pressure fringe
Primula megalocarpa
Quaker gun
quitclaimed
reproductive strategy
rhossilis
self-tuning engine
separate mesh vidicon pickup tube
shiftings
single-sheet grab
spectral radiance map
starlitz
stepping control
subcommit
subsidized export
superradial
system mathematics
thyrolactin
touch on/upon
transjejunal
trichoscoph
tulp
type class
Unsin engine
vapourise
vibrating core knockout machine
Villa del Prado
Wanggameti, Gunung
woodshed
wyry