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
Alta.
alumina fibre
amniotic cavities
aqua calcis
ballistic pendulums
Battey's operation
beam socket
Begijnendijk
blastoc(o)el(e)
brown edema
brownie
cadmium eliminator column
calmodulin-binding
castor bean plant
caudifolius
chronic inter stitial hepatitis
contractual debt
cornmills
countershaft front or rear bearing
cubocuneiform
deubiquitinate
divided iron-core
double-flanged package
dough making
drug regulation
edison electrode process
elpee
epiforis projecta
fast interline non-activate automatic control
floccuant
framr to frame jitter
glue testing
happenstantially
hawleys
Ixora coccinea
Kivi-Vigala
lendees
lipoidproteinosis
liquid natural rubber
lugin
Magena weaving process
magneto-optic disk
manager role
mandocello
market operation
mechanical means
mercuric lithium iodide
MILSTAMP
motor manufacturer
neither more or less than
neutron power level
nippitatum
nocsas
nuts up
obstructive hydrocephaly
Ochsner's ring
oligolepis acutipinnis
operate against
out of the money
pay ... after date ...
photopyrometer
piptatherum kuoi
pneumatic-laid web
point of insertion
pre-geosynclinal structural beds
pre-stress
quad ammunition carrier
radiation leak
redetentions
Romifenone
rough breathings
rowned
self-setting resin sand
session low
setting spindle
sight rate of exchange
Sophora brachygyna
SPHARGIDAE
spiraea pubescens turcz.
spooler root module
starfish stings or dermatitis
still distillation
strontium saccharate
Sub-irregation
suspension gasifier
synaptids
temperaturecontrol system test set
thorium fuelled reactor
three-eighth
traffic route
trimeturon
Tulin
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
vapor-deposition method
Vena interventricularis anterior
venison
vibration multiplier
virtualstations
wettabilities
work slice
working party on rice breeding
yammarino