时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(五)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. President Obama in Hanoi has announced the U.S has ended a decades-long arms embargo 1 against Vietnam. The two nations also released a joint 2 statement, citing example how they are increasing cooperation. 


2. Iraqi government has announced they are launching a military offensive to retake the city of Fallujah from the Islamic State group. Officials say government forces have pushed militants 3 at some farm areas outside the city, which is west of Baghdad. 


3. Authorities near Boston say the man suspected killing 4 a police officer early Sunday morning was killed in a shootout with state police. The suspect is identified as 35-year old Jorge Zambrano. One trooper was hurt in the shootout. 


4. And the U.S navy aircrafts have joined the search for debris 5 from EgyptAir flight 804. 66 people were aboard the passenger plane when it crashed in the Mediterranean 6 sea last week. 


Matt Small , the associated press, with AP news minute.



1 embargo
n.禁运(令);vt.对...实行禁运,禁止(通商)
  • This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
  • During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间,他们禁止与敌国通商。
2 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
3 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
4 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
5 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
6 Mediterranean
adj.地中海的;地中海沿岸的
  • The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
  • Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。
学英语单词
abietenes
accelerated melting by coal-oxygen burner
automatic surfacing
B.Cl.
bacterial recombination
Belady
Belitong, Sungai
blended whiskies
cable carrier bracket
captive key
Cather, Willa
check-lock
chlorotrifluoroethylene
clethra fargesii franch.
conservative ideology
copper base friction plate
couchedness
cruentation
dashkessanite
denegation
depreciation of currency
digital intercontinental conversion equipment
disebacate
docosahexenoic acid
double-roller wave generator
Erewan
ertugliflozin
ethylsulfonylethanol
extended interaction amplifier (eia)
fifty-plus
fire-drake
flying jibs
focusing defect
frame table
front crown to crossing point
ft.mas.div.in pil.
full boats
gastrula furrow
genetic differentiation
genus oenotheras
give sb a flap on the ear
glycyrrhiza extract
gulab
gyrus fornicatus
hue control circuit
hydrobiolody
immovable bed model test
in-line cylinder arrangement
informest
interactive presentation
jog adjustment
kppm
lancelots
lazure
leik
loxoconcha viva
lunisolar perturbation
maximum allowable metal temperature
mental energies
mini rugby
misgrade
neurocom
nik
non-pathogen
non-reflecting coatings
operato
ovular membranes
persiennes
photographic reconnaissance interpretation
physical mechanism
pitch stiffness
portraits
project analysis and control
QTC
quart-pots
radar engineering
random moire fringe
real-time information retrieval system
recovery management
reefing
rolling barrier
roofspace
roundwoods
sawnape
scon(e)
sea-stone
Secholex
sei whales
self-adjoint equation
sericeps
short time horizon coordination
side blister
Skoghall
special quality fire-brick
standard radius
steel-clad switchbox
stipulated jointure
tooth scarifier
tracer flow survey
wheelery
windy
youth subculture