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
acknowledging contactor
adding-up
aikidos
ambulatorius typhus
Amifur
ananthous
anchor corners
Ao post
asarine
astaunch
attached
auto-agglutinin
Ballydavid
Belgian griffon
blue mechanism
broadcasts
bulb-like
cabassets
cernkov radiaion
cleft-tongue
coast zone
commercial supervision
cpDNA
cubicle switchboard
dead reckon
devised
electrokardiogram(electrocardiogram)
electromigrations
ewaldite
facies departure map
fanning strip
far-field Cassegrainian antenna
federal bond transfer tax
feodor mikhailovich dostoyevskies
friar bird
galley slice
game-changer
geniculoextrastriate
genus Helwingia
global satellite communication system
gray marketeer
guajeos
hash and trash
hcci
helvus
hydrohalogenation
hysterosalpingostomy
ionizes
Kaplan's tests
kaza
knowleche
komkovite
Laufen
launch reserve scheme
lead lignocerate
long distance measurement
loop with operator
malariologists
mean daily temperature
mini-stroke
modification of process
Molyneux
Muller model
mussitans delirium
neurointerventional
occasional ethics
oil trip test
Omiya
panepizootic
peplows
performance of gas field
playing a joke on
presbytership
quasi-discrete game
renormalization
right handed propeller
scanning x-ray diffraction
series decay
shealey
specific efficacy
standard spheroid
status quo antes
stir oneself
suaariom
suburban monthly ticket
taikos
the adriatic
thread interval
throw off colla
thyrotrophic hormone
troyhosongia
Tunnicliff serum
u'tarna
uberous
unformidable
unitary criminal law
untutored
velocity of flame propagation
violation of woman
voegelin
wet-dry cooling tower
Y-connected