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
achage
adipose layer
agey
air blast quenching
alkaline china clay
all around the world
amicable suits
analectic
andreioma
andrewsarchus
autoinstall
become excited
bench show
Bethe equation
Bolhrad
buckeroos
chamazulenogene
Cherryfin
churchill stream
class visit
codebook method
cold setting position
commercial traveler
computer-aided geometry design
cynurenic
de-merits
dempseys
Dicerorhinus
displace by
drop open
Dsu, data service unit.
duque
erythrothrombomonoblastosis
extracarpal
five-spot water flooding pattern
flashlamps
flourimeter
general massage
ginko
glotter
glucopyranosides
harbinger of spring
helianthaceous
helina punctata
Horizontal Cross-Connect
hydrolyzed starch
idia
it snows
jenny wheel
keeping a sound mind
Klossiella
Kru Kru
kyodo
layer (lyr)
liquid immersed reactor
Lorrain Smith's stain
make the world go around
marresistance
memnon
menstrual ulcer
mouline
my hands are tied
ner tamid
ollmann
on the impulse of
over-emote
Phyllobius
platinum isotopes
policy indicator
polus anterior (bulbi oculi)
pomels
post-metal
proparacaine
proviance
Puruandiro
Puteran, Pulau
Pyamalaw
radioactivetacer method
rational manuring
Richardson vole
ruve
se-tangle
seal on
sets room
Shimsk
signalosome
stokhli
sub-points
swivel belt sander
taihu lake icefish (neosalanx taihuensis)
tangerine trees
traumatic deformity of lip
travelling jack
truss analogy method
valoniopsis pachynema
variable inductance transducer
vessel with wave-piercing hull
vladislav
voest-alpine
weld junction
worm-type steering gear
zigzag course