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
Adiora
amplified spont-aneous emission
antiallergic
assidious
autocatalytic
balloon dynamics
banche
bank-loan
be in the know
be thankful to
bersanis
booseys
branlike
calcium (ca)
catch somebody's eye
closedsystem
coeliaco-mesenteric
control matrix
corestenoma congenitum
credit contraction
dihydroxide
disbursement book
disposal agency
draft-chamber
echo-sounders
embryonal nephroma
endogenous opioid peptide
eyedropper
fake someone out
feed cone pulley
FRCPI
gas-cooled machine
geja
ghislaine
glucocyamine
guanosine tetraphosphate
halalized
hatam
heat sensitive material
high speed hobbing
Homolozoa
hydroscience
idol-worships
industry representative
inspection control
installation of heating pipeline
interdined
intestinal bacilli illness
jackbird
Kalamazooan
Kholāpur
Kurayn
lighted beacon
literature reference
magneto motive potential
mailing merge
Maxwell-Boltzmann statistic
media authority
monteras
naloxazone
neoromanticisms
oilness extreme-pressure additive
orifice (flow)meter
overflow stage
pars basilaris
penicillium superimpositus
phospho-wolframic acid
photo-point control
plug valve
plum-
polyterpene
posse comitatus
postmortem putrefaction
public exposures
quadrature oscillator
radialis
record classification
reextends
refractory(material)
relating to
show text with
side window frame
sinter wrought
spectrum analyzer
supplier concentration
thickness of root face
throw cushion
tidal hypothesis
to signify
total net movement
totsy
trenholme
trionidis testa
unit distribution
using a telephone
vertical coverage
virus inhibition
workflow enactment service
write a play
wrong-foot
zipkin
zweig rule