时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(十一)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. Celebration turned to somber 1 reflection in church services on Sunday, as Cuban Americans in Miami largely stayed off the streets. Thousands celebrated 2 the day before, to mark the death of Fidel Castro. 


2. Turkey's state run news agency says the Islamic State group used chemical weapons against Turkish-backed Syrian opposition 3 fighters in northern Syria, wounding 22 people. The reports cited the statement by the chief general staff office.  


3. Newly released drone footage shows the extended devastation 4 caused by severe flooding and landslides 5 in northwestern Italy. Hundreds of people have been displaced after days of torrential rainfall. 


4. Cuban worshipers prayed for Fidel Castro on Sunday. A not-to leader who rejected the church and all things catholic after he took power in a revolution in 1959. Castro repressed the religion, seeing the church as a rival and heavily catholic country. 


Krysta Fauria, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 somber
adj.昏暗的,阴天的,阴森的,忧郁的
  • He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
  • His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。
2 celebrated
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
3 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
4 devastation
n.毁坏;荒废;极度震惊或悲伤
  • The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
  • There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 landslides
山崩( landslide的名词复数 ); (山坡、悬崖等的)崩塌; 滑坡; (竞选中)一方选票占压倒性多数
  • Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
  • The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。
学英语单词
abducent
abstracts
acceleration controller
acidaminuria
air register
aqueous humour
arachnoid
argunense
articles of war
caliper sliding
cellophaned
chi distribution
ciaramicoli
clean hands doctrine
cloth tape
colorado-denver
common dogbanes
compound specificity
conditional acceptance
confimed service
craple
csfii
cubic hyperbola
custodian agreement
Cyclical Stocks
debugging packaage
digitals-to-analog converter
disk type brake
earth bus
employee testimonial
endocythere moyehinae
erende
estimular
Fellow of the Nautical Institute
ferrography
fish rod
five-seaters
fox and hound
full floating wrist pin
gim
graduation of curves
granville wilts
griss
guide post
H5
happy trail
in security
incremental frequence shift
irritation sign of bladder
kakori
maniraptorans
multi level control
nerve terminal
Neuron unipolare
non-bleeding
nonlocalized electron
Nordhtunga
normal magnetic flux density
patrol work
Pavacap
permanent health policy
perofskite (perovskite)
phenylethyl hydantoin
Plant City
polaronic
polypodium eusatum thunb.
power up
promising market
psychomotor hallucination
psychrometrics
pteridosperms
quantity of bunkers
quartz-monzonite aplite
quasi-instruction form
recurrent cost
redresses
research domain
ringside judge
rotary gas separator
shape cutting machine
Sherburne County
shorth
soil consistence
South Sudanese
speaking up
special bargain
special table of allowance
spent scrub stream
sprinkling device
sub-voice-grade channel
sweatstained
Syzygium paucivenium
take a joke
temp to perm
the crease
Topicorte
turbit
uncoverd sweets
vicious union
violas
white hemlock
winch barge