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
achieve a modest level of prosperity in China
Achillea wilsoniana
AGR (Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor)
ahead stage
air pilot valve
Airy differential equation
altering the thermal properties of the ground
aluminium thiocyanide
Amelanchier asiatica
anhydrous gypsum
application terminal
audit methodology
Average delivered price
bakkie
bar of soap
block variable
breaking of viscosity
broadening by damping
builder's risk
Błonie
cadre party
cardinal bishop
collector efficient factor
composite wall
Cotton County
deaerator
depressor principle
Deschampsia flexuosa
dilatant thickener
dolmans
double approach conflict
dried -sliced pork
drunked up
elated at
Eminentia thenaris
environment control system
F-tabs
fasciculi pyramidalis anterior
fibromuscular hypertropy
floortruck
gainwise
grain gearing
head/disk friction
Heeled-in
high - rise buildings
intensity diffraction pattern
lawnmarket
letrozole
lymphotoxemia
mandibular disc
mazagon
measure against
Mecoptera
medical forceps
monosymmetric
NANB
nonasthmatics
operative activity
oxyethylene group
panel ceiling
paranesidea laomaena
photodegraded
photograph axes
post-boom
PPWP
prezone phenomenon
profile of sandy loam
psychogenic amenorrhea
pumice fall
resonance, frequency
resurrectionizes
Rhododendron sperabiloides
Rondevlei
rubescensin
rumuli
selco
service cable
several judgment
shadowing effect
shield-backed bugs
soil influx
sooji
spooled pseudo unit
stopping tooth
subinterrupt
tertiary layer
third circulation
took the size of
tractus cerebellorbralis
trembling poplars
Triactinomyxon
variablereluctance microphone
war of resistance
Wattrelos
wildred
wolk-
xenoplasty
yagara
Yelimane
yeunnin
zafies