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


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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
advisedly
aestheticans
antimony(iii) sulfate
Arsenical-fahlerz
arthoplasty
Bacillus lactis saponacei
basic optimal solution
bicephalic femoral muscle
bituminating
bladderworms
bubble stream
bubuloceratina maikao
caribbean common market
centralized monitoring and control
classification of risks
common peoples
concrete placing skip
contaminated oil pipe
cotton root bark
curled up
database input language
denudatum
dft.
diagonal mark
diaphragm phenomenon
die sinking
disbandments
disturbing body
dream land
eugenol type
Finlayson's squirrel
four leaved clover
friction disc
fuel distributing box
full - text search
gallice
genus tragelaphuss
Godard
Grand Union Canal
guess-warp
Gymnema R. Br.
hang over someone's head
heading up
hydrocincite
Itbayat I.
jacket shoulderless crown
Kaulakahi Channel
lead acetate paper
low emission
low level jet condenser
lucky breaks
magnetic susceptibility meter
marginal ray
matzat
Menari
meningocele
milam
nanpingite
nasolabial folds
negro bugs
neutral heading stability
Newman-Berger method
noninformational
one-sided love
orange lac
parametrium
Perftoran
permeation fluid mechanics through porous media
phosphorous sulphide
polygon cunulative frequency
possecomitatus
Pr/Ph
prototrochal
reconnaissance sonar
returnable bag
rosette organ
sakalavite
scientist-practitioners
sectorial chimaera
semiflorets
sensibilisin
skord
standard noise source
surface-gauge
table gridlines
ten-strikes
three-level return system
thyroid depressor
to-ing
transdiagnostically
unclung
unmethylated base
UNSAT (unsaturated)
Urmitz
viscosity stratification
voltage series
wind span
winter bush
work force utilization
wttw
yield of ground water