时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(七)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Authorities say a women killed when a house in Omaha exploded was a property inspector 1 sent to check its condition after a tenant 2 was evicted 3. The explosion leveled the house and heavily damaged 4 adjacent homes.


About 400 firefighters battled a forest fire in Spain on Tuesday. The flames flared 4 overnight fueled by high temperatures and strong winds on a nearby farm.


The Solar Impluse II plane has landed in Abu Dhabi more than a year after its initial take off completing the first round-the-world flight to be powered solely 5 by the sun's energy. The plane made 16 stops including India, China, the US, Italy and Egypt.


And Cuba marked the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Thousands waved Cuban flags as this year's commemoration was dedicated 6 to former president Fidel Castro who is turning 90 in August.


Emily Roseman, Associated Press with AP News Minute. 



1 inspector
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
2 tenant
n.承租人;房客;佃户;v.租借,租用
  • The tenant was dispossessed for not paying his rent.那名房客因未付房租而被赶走。
  • The tenant is responsible for all repairs to the building.租户负责对房屋的所有修理。
3 evicted
v.(依法从房屋里或土地上)驱逐,赶出( evict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 许多房客因不付房租被赶了出来。
  • They had evicted their tenants for non-payment of rent. 他们赶走了未交房租的房客。
4 Flared
adv.仅仅,唯一地
  • Success should not be measured solely by educational achievement.成功与否不应只用学业成绩来衡量。
  • The town depends almost solely on the tourist trade.这座城市几乎完全靠旅游业维持。
5 dedicated
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
学英语单词
acid lignin
alkaline accumulator
alphabetician
Altynvka
Amistad Reservoir(Amistad, Represa de la)
annular drainage (pattern)
backup fuel
bellow expansion joint
bialcol
bizzles
boot-buttons
british petroleum company
Bustamentite
Callus-wood
capo di(tutti) capi
Carex macrandrolepis
careys
carnival-times
cetocycline
close-perspective recording
colchiss
comins
core spray pump
cross-domain key
defatigation
deh ali
diaphragmatis
discomfortable
doughts
easy flow
ECBD
extension of journey
final order
finck
flag bit interrupt
fogleman
gambling fund
garden nasturtium
half heart board
have a dig at
hearing aid test box
hello money
horizontal centrifugal casting machine
hot oil process
Hytone
ink write
iron-on
leading edge vortex lift (levl)
Leptocarpus
Lotzorai
lynelle
manufacturing automation
margin of employment
megaselia (aphiochaeta) forntinervis
mistinesses
NETCON
non-traditional machine tools
otocephalus
outlet roller
pantograph ratio range
parasitic hymenoptera
peccancy
pergal
polytony
portalet
protribune
pseudo-ductility
punch reproducer
rackie
ramularia destructan zinssmeister
ravigotte
regalbutto
retransfuse
ricciardelli
safety work
saturation mixing ratio
scanner stabilization
serous apoplexy
sidransky
southernising
spirale
squirrel grass
straight shunt-wound motor
symplocos laurina wall.
tapered element
thermal gauge
thermodynamics of one-component system
tin(ii) pyrophosphate
top ... part
topee
trecento music
two-up
unhandiness
unopposed petition
urumchis
vehicle-borne
velocity level
vestibulofibrosis
whirling runner
White Lotus Society
wiper cord
with alacrity