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
agnathocephalia
aguiars
ahas
Allgemeine
anticholinesterase drug
asian horseshoe crabs
asphalt refinery
back pages
bailout door
Bakunin
Berzhausen
break dune
cadmium perchlorate
carcinoma simplex of breast
city blight
classified ads web site
composite conductor
constructive ordinal numbers
convergent from below
counted cards
cringes
current instruction current
dan-ger
Demacort
Diana monkeys
diphtherias
dynamic friction coefficient
effluence
electrolytic photocopying
end fixture splice
fat droplet
finishing-cut
foliage leaching
fullness coefficient
galactosylhydrolase
goblins
handwheels
hydrionic
impedance
impercipience
induction of labor by stripping of membranes
insect-hole
insulator pin
Italian cut
Italian rye
Jacksonianism
Keaton, Buster
laborshed
level telescope
linguistic universal
lock and key
maarchantia polymorpha l.
main engine remote control system
manipulate data
McArthur R.
mini compressor
mitigated
multi-limbed tube
multiple equilibrium
nasal punch forceps
NWLink
offset connecting rod
on the right side of the law
over-all balance
pack tilting device
pan broil
paucibacillary
pour it on
prince of wales check
private owners
Ramsloh
ranche
relocatable linking loader
rotordynamics
s Angel
servodrive
single rib grinding wheel
single-scale
Smon-lam chen-mo
sodium alkyl-sulfinate
speech range
speed of advance
spencoes
stonker
swaged thermocouple
sweepout pattern
techniques
texas-barbecue
therapsids
thio rubber
Tom Long
transport group
treasury-bond
tricam
trollhatten
tunnel cooler
underthe
undeterminable
ventilation survey
venturitube
villagizing
window area