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
abattises
amebism
angular wave number
angustura bark
asferryl
assignment of debts
available power efficiency
babangida
Babcock tube
backup air data sensor assembly
belt weight meter
beta-binomial distribution
bone collagen fiber
Boudin's method
built to order
camerlengos
cat-hair
Cavare
chain transformation
chatter like a magpie
cite for
clean-skin
clearance agent
commit
Compton effect laser
concentric symtom
contentsome
convalescent district
Craig, Mt.
culling level
deactivating a segment
deed of charter of ship
detective film
devocalizing
Dewi, Saint
dostoevskii
drinking games
dxa
elastic buckling analysis
erosive type
expected duration
film hybrid integrated circuit
fir-needle
fixing fares and rates
genus maniss
glossal
have the courtesy to do something
informative abstract
insoluble proteins
interlocking data
interstate compact
isobutyronitrile
leading sunspot
link bait
lockaway
logolepts
MCS (management command system)
mechanism of heat transfer
melligo
military reason
milk thistles
mitsui fudosan
Mullet Key
Nasorolevu
neufville
neutralizing power of lens
nigger-driver
normal-moverout spectrum
Palatini
pan grease
parity switch
perforation of cardiac valve
poor cluster
poor white trash
Povarenkino
pre-heated air
proofing box
protected motor
pulsometer (pump)
quasi easement
Red No.2
relaxation drink
Salgadinho
sapo cinereus
scale decimal arithmetic
sense of organization
short-run decision
shortcut key combinations
sized up
south-west c.
tit for tats
to put one's foot down
toxicapathy
Trichnellidae
visual doubles
watre
wet fading
wheel molding machine
winnowing down
with spur and yard
Woodbridge
ZC-worm