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. President-elect Donald Trump 1 is expected to tap billionaire investor 2 Wilbur Ross as his commerce secretary. That's according to a senior transition official. Ross is considered as the king of bankruptcy 3 for beaten-down companies with the potential to deliver profits. The two met last Sunday. 


2. Thousands lined the street of New York amid tight security for the 90th Messi thanksgiving day parade. A giant Charlie Brown balloon helped get things started, joined by many other giant balloons. More than 80 sanitation 4 trucks filled with sand were used as security barriers. 


3. A wildfire ripped though parts of Haifa, one of Israel's largest cities, forcing tens of thousands people to evacuate 5 their homes.  Authorities speculated the blaze may have been set by politically motivated arsonists 6


4. This year's Vatican Christmas tree, a nearly 80-foot spruce pine from northern Italy went up in St.Peter square Thursday. The official unveiling along with this year's nativity set for December,9th. 


Ned Baker 7,  the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
2 investor
n.投资者,投资人
  • My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
  • The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。
3 bankruptcy
n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
4 sanitation
n.公共卫生,环境卫生,卫生设备
  • The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看,这个地段非常糟糕。
  • Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
5 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
6 arsonists
n.纵火犯( arsonist的名词复数 )
  • The factory was destroyed in a fire started by arsonists. 工厂在纵火犯引起的火灾中烧毀了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland said suspected arsonists could face murder charges. 澳大利亚总检察长罗伯特麦克莱兰说,怀疑纵火犯可能面临谋杀指控。 来自互联网
7 baker
n.面包师
  • The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
  • The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。
学英语单词
- sect
accelerated methods
allowances for medicine and health
Alulex
antiknock substance
Bacterium ceylonense
Ban Charok Yai
be brought up
bidermima
birss
bite stick
Canis Minoris
captain room
cart-driver
cedille
circuit sectionalizer
colletotrichum acutatum
crab-eating macaque
department economics
disingenuously
do donuts
fighter engagement zone
film varister
garlandage
Gauss mapping
genus vulturs
gertner
hein
hemerocology
heuristic pruning
hot trap
hydride
hyleoglomeris vittata
island arc chain
Jarawa
jive talk
Jorminy distance
keitais
Kuznetsovskiy
lead plant
Ledaig Point
light crosswind
lilial
Liptrap, C.
loss of circulator driving power
loxoconcha subcirculata
mass spectrometer measurement
menstrual edema
microteslas
miliary body
moler
moral standard
mycotoxin of penicillium
nifungin
non-negotiable instruments
overall sampling
overgrowth under eyelid
permanent peg
pick up the pieces
pigment finish
pileri
play her last card
policias
price free on board
protonate
radiation point
radiochemical separation
rated reactive power
reciprocal cancellation
retirement communities
riding weather tide
ring the market
rip-tide
rust-eaten
saddle stitching
self-pressurized system
senhora
set comprehension
siliceous reservoir rock
spit curl
stable solution
steel tape armo(u)ring
summary court-martial
sunier
survey of pollution sources
sweet birches
the occasion of the trouble
toeof beam
tooted your own horn
totally disconnected closed set
trachyleberis fujyh
transmitting time
tristana
truckster
turn up the thumb
uk pence
ultrasonic web-break detector
uniroyal-goodrich
up-anddown
volt-milliampere-meter
Zou Yan
zuki