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
alda
aleurites ardata oil
AngloFrisian
anordriol
antiplane shear motion
athreptic
autoimmune polyglandular syndrome
axial twin
barrels per stream day (BPSD)
beancakes
bevelling lever
bjelasnica mts.
Board of
bottom third wheel jewel
breeze
car-body van
Carresse-Cassaber
cation active
cell switch
cheesers
clay-cement mortar
Conpernik
control dilemma
control winding
coroebus hastanus ephippiatus
cucumberfishes
cultural-heritage
Cyclobalanopsis sichourensis
defect model
detrended
dynamic programming
ethylene bis(dithiocarbamate) zinc
eubranchids
exclusive market
fallopian ligament
first return time
fixly
fourthness
grazing exit
hierolatries
hologram reconstruction
Hydropotes
hyperthetical
identity unknown indicator
impediment in elevation
insulated flexible ladder
inter-company accounts
interatomic distance
interstitial chiasma
inverse time of series
Kazikazi
krusen
labour quantity variance
Lindenberg im Allgäu
malloseismic
martella
mis-wish
moufti
New Waverly
nondividing
on the calender
OPCS
open block
ossify
overagitating
paddle type coiler
pectosinic acid
point-to-point transmission
preassault operation
printer inventory
Prus., Pruss.
radar prediction
rasterised
river terrace deposit
rubes
self-creatings
Shandī
shopping precinct
silicifaction
social-service
stupefiedness
subterranean diversion
sweet osmanthus
techno-economic
the eldest
theatre going
thrast
TP (time pulse)
tunnel junction
uncased well
undeparted
unremonstrated
updation time
Vaccinium dunnianum
vanquer
vapour-liquid ratio
Vila Fontes
we belong together
Weston cell
xenoglossia
yenisei-samoyeds
zirconium tribromide