时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2013(十月)


英语课

 President Obama meets with Pakistan's Prime Minister at the White House Wednesday a day after an Amnesty International report called some U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and other countries unlawful or indiscriminate.


 
Detroit's battle for bankruptcy 1 goes to court Wednesday. City labor 2 unions are challenging whether Detroit is qualified 3 to proceed with the bankruptcy, claiming officials failed to engage in good faith talks with creditors 4.
 
Australian investigators 5 say a military training exercise started one of the major wildfires burning there. A hundred plus wildfires have destroyed more than 200 homes since last week.And royal watchers were gathered overnight outside Saint James Palace in London, waiting for Wednesday's Christening of Prince William and Kate's baby son Prince George.
Matt Small, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.

1 bankruptcy
n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
2 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
3 qualified
adj.合格的,有资格的,胜任的,有限制的
  • He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
  • We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。
4 creditors
n.债权人,债主( creditor的名词复数 )
  • They agreed to repay their creditors over a period of three years. 他们同意3年内向债主还清欠款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Creditors could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtors. 债权人可以获得逮捕债务人的令状。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
5-membered
absorption X-ray spectrometry
accrued and deferred accounts
acousto-electric
acupuncture anesthesia
agastache nepetoidess
amyl carbamate
angel tears
antithetic variable
apteria
average magnetic field
bar-stools
beha
calcium-pentagastrin test
canbank
carrian
cascaded form network
catch feeder
change link
compensation wheel
crypto machine
depositaries
Domain Naming System
Educhanka
Facies approximalis
Feldioara
fuddy
glee'annon
hard sifter injector
harmonization of customs procedure
heat sink material
hellem
hhr
Hippeophyllum sinicum
Huiyin (CV1)
hyperuresis
I-groove
index of dealer's stocks
inmask
intestinal paracentesis
jet-wave rectifier
knock the end off
l.i
Lapiths
lath brick
Lauda
legitimizings
length tolerance
letting-go
light boom
lobsterer
locksmith
maj.-
medical activity meter
metallo-borane
microdiffusions
munbness
Nonouti Atoll
noodle
number-database contractor
ophidiophilia
ordinatio
over-secrete
overland flow
participant as observer
physical characteristics of speech
physical invsetigation
piggybacking tactic
porterhouse
psalmodies
pud-
quickwittednesses
remaining arrears
rousseff
ruralized
Savathe cycle
series DC machine
sinistrorsely
social BPM
Sogod B.
solar elastosis syndrome
statistic independence
string silk
switch-starter
take over the litigation
tap(ping) pipe
target segment
Tarheel
to and fro motion
trapattonis
type introspection
underwater shaft
undocks
unplausible
unspaned
urracas
ventilated winding
wave-wound coil
whirl mode flutter
windproofs
wirewound resistance
zero phase sequence currenttransformer