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. Armed soldiers and military Humvees moved in Tuesday to remove protesters who are campaigning on private lands to block the construction of the Dakota access pipeline 1 in North Dakota. Protesters set a small fire and built blocks but majority retreated from confrontation 2.


2. Official in central Italy began to assess the damage caused by a pair of strong earthquakes in the same region hit by a deadly quake in August. Meanwhile, authorities scrambled 3 to find housing for thousands of displaced residents.


3. Twitter is cutting about 9% of its employees worldwide and killing 4 off Vine, its mobile app where people share short video clips. Twitter has failed to keep pace with rivals Facebook, Snapshot and Instagram in recent months.


4. And the National Weather Service says snow began following Thursday in parts of Connecticut and is expected in Massachusetts as well. Commuters shouldn't worry, however the first snow of the season isn't expect to accumulate, because the ground is too warm.


Kelly Daschle, the Associated Press with AP news minute.



1 pipeline
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
2 confrontation
n.对抗,对峙,冲突
  • We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
  • After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后,他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。
3 scrambled
v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 );攀登;争夺;(军事飞机)紧急起飞
  • Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
学英语单词
'what
acousto-optic crystal
aetheogam
announced retransmission random access protocol
ant colony optimization
anti-pain
ascii code
assault rifles
assertings
astunned
ataxitic
atomic mass constant
Blastodiniaceae
Bosh smoke unit
cane type shift
Carrao, R.
chancre mechanics
chocolate pansy
ciaos
coagulometer
colwyd
component of momentum
copper zeolite Y
credit inflation
currency notes
Decimed
dedal
dehumidifying equipment
dejargonize
dewrot
double channel ditch (w-type ditch)
eadwines
ebony families
electrically-controlled boat
exaggerated claim
Exploitation of the Works of Nature
f value
fanny magnet
feedback current
fuck it up
gallium hydride
Glesch
gloeocystidiellum tabacinum
godinot
Graphic tablet
ground dynamics
hexagonal nuts
jipijapa
Jirmah
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Khāneh Sūr, Gardaneh-ye(Khanasur P.)
kosova
kuok
linac focusing
loose-forward
luckemia
magnetic pole position
minarik
miscellaneous purposes
netting of trade
non-correlation
one strand rope
optimal weight vector
oral erotism
overhead grinding machine
PAS/MAP
pcoes
penetrant testing method
pole-reversing key
primordial ovule
prolonium iodide
prompt call
provender
quadrature tide
racemates
Red. in pulv.
rigali
selsyn-type electric machine
semichoruses
serous canal
split stock
Stogursey
strut one's stuff
suborder osciness
superficial gas velocity
syndrome differentiation of excess and deficiency
tax warrant
technologically advanced
Tetradium ruticarpum
to rake in
transisomer
transit wagon without resorting
truna
tumulous
two-fluid cell
udons
uncs
valve collar
weeb
wide-sense stationary random process
zone of totality