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
a series of policies and measures
accounting option
actionable wrongdoing
air scout
analytical facilities for protein determinations
antiamylase
AS-18S
bear rule
billetee
blue color
Boethius
brucellosis vaccine
Burridge
canadian water carriage of goods act 1936
cat and dog life
centronuclear
character recognition machine
ciliectomy
circumsepted
clement richard attlees
clyman
cooling bed shears
corrosion inhibition
crankpinstep
creepocity
day lighting
deletion operator
desponsion
diadysite
dimensional deviation
dress-conscious
dummy variable trap
Escaňuela
Eyring theory
family Lasiocampidae
fenestration operation
fetoglobulins
file analysis
francescon
furcular
God works in mysterious ways
grain-oriented material
hand-restoring
Harbour Grace
heterovital
Horbach
Housing Bubble
i-walled
in america
in rain or fine
jump suits
KWT
liftoff activity
local-government
low severity hydrocracking
Matarape, Tk.
matrimonial laws
meltable
mintable
modulo reduction
musicmaking
N. D.
neodymium doped yttrium aluminium garnet laser
oil calorimeter
Peniltetra
pitot-venturi tube
poison sumach
polarized magnet
power politics
precocious germination
preliminary market testing
present to the mind
preshaves
primitive recursion
profit-volume charts
Raisen
saint matthew the apostles
science of tactics
screen coil
secondary inclusion
semi-continuous running
shavehook
shrinkwrapped
smashy
sourdre
southern branch jet stream
Spingarn, Joel Elias
strapdown inertial navigation equipment
strewbery
telecanvassing
Tetley
texture anisotropy
theiform
throw a flood of light upon
toluidine test
triphaenopsis jezoensis
tubulars
tuffier's echnique
twists per inch
ultra short wave band
value-added statement
zygomatico-auricular