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
acro-agonines
adhering apparatus
Alginodia
americanising
appertain to sth
barstooler
Bless your heart
burst protection
Canalis infraorbitalis
cantilever jack-up rig
cascade reverser
cash management services
coaling bag
communications signal
contraceptive tablet for external application
coordinates
creditor debtor organization
cynoglossum virginaticums
debtholders
deed absolute
degree of redundancy
Dichlorotrifluoroethane
do a favour for sb
double-reheat stream tubrine
duhuo jisheng decoction
Efatsy
egg-shell painting
electrostatic charge
engagement rings
fete days
fusarium reticulatum montagne
genus molvas
glycinol
government-fundeds
growth-rate
hard - luck story
hexaedron
high-temperature gasdynamics
highway systems
Hoppert's disease
hydrographic tables
hylophilus
hyphedonia
inter-trading
justice view of ethics
ketura
Kultschitzky's hematoxylin stain
Larat
leadger
limestone flux
Lionville
locating bearing
logwoods
lucky duck
maximum shear strain
media study
moffle
Montr.
multi-piece weaving machine
multifunction detection and recording system
n-dimensional manifold
noncommand terminal
Novozybkovskiy Rayon
operating instruction
overspeed monitor
peske
phase-locked loop
pre-heating process
precray
production grade
prothallial nucleus
prurigoes
push button control console
rake of wingtip
read-out-tube
reasonably assured resources
recoppice
ribots
rigid patrol airship
Royat
Ruen (Rujen)
sensor
sharp line
similarity ratio
skylined
Sopeira
speed-sensitive release
stont
storage exchage
study scheduled time point
sublingual granuloma
synchronizing system
tellurizing
to shit
toss a hat into the ring
total suspended particulates (tsp)
traffic-calming
vehicle station
wiping waste
withered tongue
zempoaltepetl
Zygomycetes