美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2016-12-23
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2016(十二)月
This is AP news minute.
1. Germany has launched a Europe-wide manhunt for a Tunisian man, described as violent and armed and having ties to Islamic extremists. Authorities say the man is a suspect in the Berlin's Christmas attack. And he used at least six different names and three different nationalities.
2. Donald Trump 1 declared Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "An attack on humanity". The president-elect spoke 2 to reporters briefly 3 ahead with a meeting with retired 4 general Michael Flynn, his incoming Washington security advisor 5.
3. In New York, Nicolas Tartaglione, a retired police officer, is accused of killing 6 four men who went missing during a suspected drug deal earlier this year. Authorities discovered the remains 7 of four bodies on property linked to the suspect, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
4. Heavy snow blanketed Syria's embattled northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday. Footage captured by the Associated Press in western Aleppo showed Children and families playing in the cold and throwing snowballs on one another.
Krysta Fauria, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.
- 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。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
- He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
- 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。