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.  There has been another shakeup in the Trump 1's campaign. Republican presidential nominee 2 Donald Trump hired Stephen Bannon of Brietbart news as CEO and named Pollster Kellyanne Conway campaign manager. The move comes just 82 days before the election. 


2. More than 80,000 residents are under evacuation warning as a massive wildfire east of Los Angles advanced on thousands of homes. The fire erupted Tuesday and spread quickly, fueled by hot weather and drought-stricken terrain 3


3. More than 500 passengers have been evacuated 4 after a small fire erupted on a cruise ship, about miles off Puerto Rico's north coast. The fire was still burning aboard the Caribbean fantasy as coast guards began bringing passengers ashore 5. There were reported fatalities 6


4. And underwater explorers announced Wednesday they discovered the second oldest confirmed ship wreckage 7 in the Great Lakes. The Washington- an American built, Canadian-own sloop 8 sank in Lake Ontario in 1803. 


Kelly Daschle, 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 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
3 terrain
n.地面,地形,地图
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • He knows the terrain of this locality like the back of his hand.他对这一带的地形了如指掌。
4 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。
5 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
6 fatalities
n.恶性事故( fatality的名词复数 );死亡;致命性;命运
  • Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤,但没有人死亡。
  • The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 wreckage
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
8 sloop
n.单桅帆船
  • They heeled the sloop well over,skimming it along to windward.他们使单桅小船倾斜适当,让它顶着风向前滑去。
  • While a sloop always has two sails,a cat-rigged boat generally has only one.一艘单桅帆船总是有两面帆,但一艘单桅艇通常只有一面帆。
学英语单词
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abbreviators
Albaron
An Lac
anti-asian
assignably
athenes
axial flow opener
Baeyer's test
barbey degree
belt stripper
Benfleet
Bentinckia
bhutanis
bobowski
boundary layer thickness of energy
Calidris canutus
called subscriber testing circuit
canachitess
cockton
continuous sintering
cultural appropriation
default argument
design burn-up
diamond compact
difference module
direct reversing gas turbine
disanthus cercidifolius maxim.
discombine
drill for boring corners
entopic
epinephrine-assisted
eustatic
fixed income ETF
flagellated
foxlikest
gastrotympanites
Glauburg
grillage footing
Guasipati
gunite mortar
hanbys
has it both ways
hide and hair
inhibition ratio
intercalarity
intestinal suture needle
isotopically
jeffreyite
king's knight
loaned stock
location of apparatus
low pressure generator
lucky day
magnetic signature
Manitoulin
maximum contraction
megalonaias nickliniana
meningocytes
millimeter wave fet amplifiers
music-learning
Myacarus
negligible
neo-digalen
Northern Wales
obstipations
okr
oxidation/fermentation(medium)
Parasenecio rockianus
pilot valve governor
plonk down
polyvinyl plunger
postliminary
prerace
readmire
red factor canary
rent of growing stock
repercusses
rhapsodists
second-storey men
secondary instrument
segment bearing
self-deception
soak-quench technique
software company
solidaire
sunbeamy
tetanomotor
thin-layer chromatographic
thunbergia erecta
thutmosis
time harmonics
tractorable
transient overload reverse voltage limit
vanillaberon
vena dorsalis clitoridis profundas
VTAM
wagon transporter
watch chains
water-ball
with spring spokes wheel
zeroing out