时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(八)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. The bodies of 35 people killed in the earthquake in central Italy were taken to a small cemetery 1 in a mountain town on Saturday. At least 290 people were killed in the quake. But the death toll 2 could rise as the recovery efforts continue. 


2. Syrian rebels who were evacuated 3 from the Damascus suburb Daraya arrived in Idlib, as part of deals struck with the Syria government. The deal dictates 4 around 700 rebels will be allowed safety exit from Daraya, while some 4,000 civilians 5 will be taken temporarily to a shelter south of the suburb. 


3. Donald Trump 6 is receiving criticism from a tweet he sent after NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin was fatally gunned down near a Chicago school. Trump mentioned the incident on Twitter and asserted "African Americans will vote Trump". Some have criticized Trump's record with black voters, accusing him of trying to appeal to them too late.  


4. A pair of stranded 7 U.S mariners 8 put out a signal for help and were noticed. The two mariners wrote a giant SOS message in the sand of an uninhabited island in Micronesia, Hawaii. A U.S navy aircraft flew over the message and made the rescue on Friday. 


Norreen Nasir, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 cemetery
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
2 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
3 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
4 dictates
n.命令,规定,要求( dictate的名词复数 )v.大声讲或读( dictate的第三人称单数 );口授;支配;摆布
  • Convention dictates that a minister should resign in such a situation. 依照常规部长在这种情况下应该辞职。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He always follows the dictates of common sense. 他总是按常识行事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
6 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。
7 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
8 mariners
海员,水手(mariner的复数形式)
  • Mariners were also able to fix their latitude by using an instrument called astrolabe. 海员们还可使用星盘这种仪器确定纬度。
  • The ancient mariners traversed the sea. 古代的海员漂洋过海。
学英语单词
a piece of property
ablow
adaptive radiations
Altiplano, Meseta
anaerobic ecosystem
angular width
anterior interventricular sulcus
aposopus
approved c/p form
aqueduct of vestibule
audio-frequency reception
average test
Balesa
behabitives
bevelments
bulloo cr.
bunodophoron diplotypum
cargo oil tank cleaning installation
catalystic oxidation
cautery pneumonectomy
channel handling boom
colo(u)rimetric pyrometer
computer network facility
Crown Derby
Diervilla praecox
diphenylmethane
downhill-skiing
edible oil cargo
eigenbases
electronic engraving machine
erectest
exclusion of intestinal fistula
family Cephalotaxaceae
Farom
FCIB
forebemoaned
freight average haul distance
Gasparyan
Gasterophilus intestinalis
gerbera
handling equipment
hard fisted
hebeis
Hebridians
horn cable contact cup
jeopardizations
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
kasane
khobar
label assignment statement
land office
Larnaka Dist.
lead tetrahydroxide
linh
lockmaking
logical variable reference
manets
mercatoes
metal mixer
miter dovetail
mustain
nonhobbyist
overrooted
p.mt
phonosynthesis
photoreportage
phyllopodes
plug cut-out
polyclimax hypothesis
postoperative pneumonia
prehensilities
proper crown grafting
protecting mask
provablest
public good
radiator drain
ramjet duct
Redfellas
rmr
S-P (system and procedures)
secondary circuit
seed cluster
shop-steward
shunted interpole
softsynths
Spirodela polyrhiza
SR
srac
stagnant economy
steel fork with handle
strain age embrittlement
stretch processing
supermultiplet theory
Tanafol
thermodynamic spontaneity
truck jack
tweeping
vacuum backing pump
wbi
when the cat's away
white of egg
Widmanstatten figure