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
absolute moisture
al ula
alto-rilievos
atc radar beacon system
Bar Kokba, Bar Kokhba, Simon
bath chair
Benacm
biolimiting elements
brocages
bulk capacitor
c.l.r
caesium chloride density gradient
carbonyl cyanide
cargo loading ramp
chitotriosidase
chloruremia
christianis
chromophile
comitative
confer with sb. on sth.
decaking
dimethyltubocurarine iodide
diphthongisation
drainage opening
drop-weighted tear test
dustings
edge point control
electromagnetic pneumatic contactor
enzyme-linkeds
ESNZ
fluidization leaching
fluorination process
foreign share
gadding car
gibson deserts
gimenezs
Gobemicina
Great Goddess, The
Haemapium
Hamiltonian cycle
Hedwigia
higher order reflex
highfrequency
hunnut'n
Interamnia
invert
IRM (intermediate range monitor)
layen
length over pulling faces of couplers
light bombardment aircraft
linear structural relation
lolas
Mdiq
meac
medium altitude communications satellite
mingle-mangles
mode of deformation
movable probe
multilayer film network
nano-tex
Nowood R.
organic filler
output effect
permissible dosage
pharyngeal pouch syndrome
photocoagulating
Pielisjärvi
Ptilidioideae
pumel
pushdown stack
radiation luminescence
radiation plasma turbulence
real-time debugger
reserve for
sathrophyta
saute pork chop
sea water level
shellac color
sherfeys
siltite
spring hammer beetle
stretch assembly program
supplemental account
Teso Santo
Tetlin
tirolo
Titignano
tread-softly
truncation in domain
typophor brown
un detachable
underground leakage
urea lumps separator
ventriloquize
viscosine
visitor
vitelline fistula
voltage-ratio box
water-towers
winixes
woodcreepers
zygobranchiate