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
abyssal facies
acetabularia ryukyuensis
adiantum formosanum
air bricks
air metre
Airy method
all-night service store
amblopala avidiena y-fasciata
anastole
apathetic shock
Atranex
ballast displacement
beg one's pardon
breathy
bus connector
businesslikely
career coaching
Carolina allspice
Celone, Torrente
Civil Air Patrol
co-precipitations
copper bloom
dacrydium bidwillis
data gathering problem
data generating system
deleague
drive for
East Coast of South Africa
electron bombardment zone melting
emilia-romagnas
endless loop cassette tape
Fasintsara
file video
fleshy
floating-point shift
formal logical system
friedguts
fundible
gaisy chain
habitat ecology
heterocaryote(heterokaryote)
high-fitness
hold down
holubs
hooft
hurra
infinitum
interface language
koury
kyp-
lays hands on
lipothymia
Maslovka
mesendoderm
Metaxa
Mizonovo
motor with separate excitation
mucilago gummi arabici
Nessus' shirt
netstumbler
night gang
non-saponifying
odynometer
oil-contaminated
online writing center
parapenaeopsis venusta
prevenient
private-pay
protecting mask
quinley
ragouts
rail changer
sausage curl
second-ring groove
semisecret
shared hardware
six-percent
spectrum test
spigot and-faucet joint
spring butt rocking door
stadd
steel bar welding
subtemporal (bone)
symmetric laminate
tetradactylism
the usual
theoretical combustion temperature
three-notest
tile roofs
top plunger
total time on test
track road
trelstad
twin cable
ultraleftists
unpannelling
up level
voltage behind subtransient reactance of a synchronous generator
willson
wynn
xxiiiest
Y-system