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
aerial mining
anthraglycosides
Autocad Software
auxiliary hologram
basal orifice
binnacle door
border town
cable casing
canal-lock
cant chisel
cardiac diagnostics
CATJARTODAE
cementing furnace
cians
cinnamon coloured
clear page
common-collector connection
computer-aided flow visualization
Corot, Camille
CX43
dandle
decapitation secretion
Delta-4
differential election
directional microphone
Eddington luminosity
Engrish
Estaimbourg
example sentence
franzias
freeway
get out of it
gsr(galvanic skin response)
Hai Ninh
hard drawn wire
in-block camshaft
infester
informofer
initial charging
intervel contraction
irrotational wind (component)
isiganeite (psilomelane)
iso-cadinene
jaws are wagging
Jeffo
katakinetic
La Porte
laser spectrum technology
lower subsoil
lycopus lucidus turcz.
main engine boolard test
merguss
meta-signaling protocol entity
metricsystem
Monday men
multiple radio source
narkiewicz
nautical surveying
ncdad
optoelectronic diode
osteoclastogenesis
overbroadness
part-storage system
periumbilical choristia
perriello
photo memory
photosensitised
platform bottom sheet
potential window
prime model
property inheritance
pulverized coal firing equipment
put little stock in
pyloric lymph nodes
recovered signal
recovery tdination manager
revenge-seeking
sacramentarist
sales trainee
scabies humida
scientific experiments
semi focusing
separate structure
somatic cavity
STENSIOELLIFORMES
tantalum(v) methoxide
term examination
That is another story.
thredde
Tiguet
took to their bosom
transdialected
turbulent statistical theory
ultradeep well
Vaals
Vena uncialis
verge-punched
vibration resistance
whiteware
whs
William Burroughs
wrist-pin brass wedge set screw