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
Ambot
ancestim
apoplexy involving the hollow organs
arguablest
ATPR
aural polyp
Cantillana
capeman
cartonfuls
cash donation
chlorantraniliprole
Cinzas, R.das
circulation failure
climatotherapy
columinescence effect
craniopharyngioma
cut them out
deoxyadenosine moniphosphate
derigueur
detorting
division center
encortin
English saddle
escape speed
exultingly
facultyman
femtocells
fibre cross-talk
flight line of aerial photography
flushing rubefaction
fps
gearing oil sprayer
harira
have a shy at something
hold sb in honor
Hopkinson yoke
Huon River
Hylobatidae
incremental cost
interpenetrative
interwinding backbone
iothalamates
joint with single butt strap
junk financing
keep off the spot
key brick
letter boxes
lido di roma (lido di ostia)
lilyturfs
lytropic liquid crystals
magnox
main class
manahawkin
march order
mosquito boat
MTAU
mtpa
natural model
non-linear field theorv
novatophan
off-axis distribution
overhaulings
packet radio
percentage uncertainty
pezzolis
plafibride
planariids
propeller shaft turning wrench
reconstructive surgeries
resliced
resplendencies
resulting tide
ring groove carbon remover
rock blasting
roseal
rotating-loop antenna
SAL (symbolic assembly language)
Samara River
Sargent
self love
sensitive thermometer
set-point
simavastatin
SMA-60
solventless coil
sovok
spacelike line
steel-lined wire winding channel
strum plate
sudoxicam
suicidal ideation
syndactylous
tendotransplantatio periostealis
thrust pressure
thunderegg
torch oil gun
tornadocane
traumatise
ultrared heating
violinophone
viral rubella
wilhelm eduard webers