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
ab incunabulis
abyssal basins
additive genetic variance
air prilling
arabian dollar
arylpolysilane
assuaged
astronaut health management
at ... worst
auricular arrhythmia
automatic temperature control
bacteriologic(al)examination
bathyplankton
blinds
blood-thirst
brandy nose
bridge of gold
bridging loan
bunker surface
cataloguish
catch eye effect
cell elongation
chief programmer team
chuka
collateral fibers
Commercial Total Loss
cordeiro
cross-head pin oiler
custom-built
dance to someone's tune whistle
desmodiums
doosje
doubloonies
elimination
etidronates
financial reports
genearchs
generalized flag manifold
glibutimine
granular degeneration
granulating screen
gymlet
gynesin
Helminthostachys
high power laser diode
holocrystalline rock
hot plume
hydraulic electrogenerating
hydroxic acid
if relevant
in lamb
infusive
intercepting drain
ironic
kaimacams
Lake Helen
left-brained
legal writ
Li
magnetic-field interference
membrane length constant
monochlorobiphenyl
Nardostachys DC.
naturalvalue
new additional duties
nitric oxide h(a)emochromogen
official assigneeship
oil-soluble rust inhibitor
operational characteristics
passenger's luggage
pentetonate
photoelectric transistor
phthalyl
Piritramid
plokhov
pre-christmas
precipitin sera
predetection recording
propulsion capability
proton-antiproton storage ring
psychology of creative
purity checking
search up
secular teacher
self-monitoring device
servostabilization
seven-minute
sewer-main
sharp-minded
Spiraea blumei
spring lay
syphilitic spastic paraplegia
talking assholes
tashkil
Terpocid
thin beer
true rule
twaddle hydrometer
unvestal
video preemphasis
viewing-deck
vitrofusite