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
3-dimethylsulfonisopropionate
A-weighted sound level
agency bank
airmobile assault
alpenas
alpha irons
antinomian
Aplustridae
armed with intent to endanger life
bacon pig
bile reflux gastritis
bloody hell
buongiorno
chip former
clan-identity
coalsmoke
compensation fund
complete text
conocephalus divergentus
Cottrell rectifier
countryseats
crassinexinous
cusacks
danovaro
Darling, Lake
dead-coloring
decarbonize
desorption potential
differential mesh equation
dissemble
echelon starting positions
effective net head
felt edge
fixed maturity bonds
fluid replacement therapy
formal declarer
gastroxynsis fungosa
general cartology
genus holcuss
guestan
hand valve
headfords
helical filter
hesperidia
hollow spoke
horizontal shaft generator
hydrocolloidal impression material
indicating plug gauge
indigotins
industry leader
inoguchi
Jewes harps
law of science and technology
light movement stimulator
massera
modularises
mood-induction
multiple-track line
multistable configuration
nannospore
nielle
Novoselenginsk
nutrias
painted cup
paracytherois levis
pawtys
pennisetum cenchroides rich.
point of action
pole-pole array
pre-operational test boiler
precocious pregnancy
protoculture
Rauza
rectal burning
reichert
reliabilistic design methodology
resolvent equation
Rinco
sahag
shiversome
silo launch complex
single bedroom
sky battle
sloping discharge pipe
specter
STYLLLLLLASTERIDAE
subfamily Potoroinae
synthetic sweetener
Tarsian
Taurotragus derbianus
thanksgive
tin placer
trinitrotoluol
triple jump runway
twenty-percent
underdrawings
Vaccinium subfalcatum
virstatin
white wings
with a bold hand
worse-case
Xyelidae