时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(十)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. The FBI informed congress Friday that it is investigating whether there a classified information in new emails that have emerged in its probe of Hillary Clinton's private server. At a rally in New Hampshire, GOP nominee 1 Donald Trump 2 praised the FBI's decision, saying "Perhaps finally justice will be done". 


2. Two explosions said to be caused by explosive-laden vehicles were seen in the Syrian city of Aleppo. The footage was released by a pro-opposition 3 news agency. The  explosions came on the day rebels launched a large-scaled offensive to break the government's sieged of Aleppo's opposition held , eastern districts. 


3. Two freight trains crashed head-on in Pennsylvania, injuring two crew members. Neither trains was carrying hazardous 4 materials. Officials are trying to determine how fast each train was travelling at the time and what caused the crash. 


4. As part of the public tours as well as in recognition of Halloween, several impersonators were on hand of the White House, portraying 5 past presidents and first ladies. In the red room, former first lady Dolly Madison discussed the various ice creams she served while at the White House, while Abraham Lincoln posed for pictures under his actual portrait. 


Matthew Burgoyne, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
2 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • 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。
3 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
4 hazardous
adj.(有)危险的,冒险的;碰运气的
  • These conditions are very hazardous for shipping.这些情况对航海非常不利。
  • Everybody said that it was a hazardous investment.大家都说那是一次危险的投资。
5 portraying
v.画像( portray的现在分词 );描述;描绘;描画
  • The artist has succeeded in portraying my father to the life. 那位画家把我的父亲画得惟妙惟肖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Ding Ling was good at portraying figures through careful and refined description of human psychology. 《莎菲女士的日记》是丁玲的成名作,曾引起强烈的社会反响。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
学英语单词
acrophytia
al-hasan ibn al-haythams
allwelded
Apert's syndrome
apiss
appulsive
asset-stripper
bear sales
Benejuzar
black flah oil
boresight
cari
castilblanco de los arroyos
charring stage
chattel real
clownical
common bud
crash forming
cultivate ... friendship
cyberjournal
Daunian
demounting
dibromosuccinic acid
diffuse lipomatosis
digit place
disabled state
drawscrew
dysarts
ear bougie
equidistant locking pallets
equity accounts
ethics
external referral identifier
fall into the power of
full-load running test of tanker
futurate
genus Caladenia
heteromers
high speed planer
high-band
hollowed microballoon reinforcement
horse-and-carriage
HPRM (high power range monitor)
HVDC transmission line
hydraulic bursting test
induced operator
Javits, Jacob K(oppel)
knocked my socks off
knocked on wood.
kraftsmen
leaf fat
light-wells
lisbon sugar
macropodidaes
method of equal-appearing intervals
multimedia communication
natural estrogenic hormone
niefs
niobium metal powder
old mother hubbard
oxymonad
petrified rhodonite
photochromicglass
photoelectret
plantula
plushest
power injection
precision industry
price-tags
productive depth
Pycnostachys
pyran
red-blind
relationship-based
release bar
Sachombe
segmented electrode
sepelible
Sibbaldia purpurea
silencer of rock drill
skirt-over-ground resistance
slope ratio assay
stray coupling
subseptated uterus
supra-apical
swadler
syringa persicas
tapered reducer
the life and soul of the party
thread-carrier bar
trasse
true nuclear mass
tubuli spiralis
unsavory
utility-type undertakings
vining station
water strider
Weinbergerite
yarne
YHL
Ythan, River
yu-ming