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。
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a good time
Acidaminococcus
affect composure
Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline
amacratic
amount purchased
Appraisal Right
arlies
Aubange
back copies
Bauhin's valve
beam reflector aerial system
beta-relaxation temperature
biharmonical
camarade
caudal protrusion
cbrn
cetologist
chair back rail
cloyne
complete payment
Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique
Courophylline
crimson-magenta
delthyrid
develop a passion for
didemnid
endogenous variable
endoscopical
fruit caving
fuel growth
gellies
gnatlings
granatellis
group delay measuring equipment
haplobiontic yeast
hemmed and hawed
heterozaptyx ilanensis
houch
hypersecretion
ic (isolation condenser)
indicator assignment
inforse
injection molding machine
ink stain
international banking facilities
jumpwelded pipe
Kalem Burun
kilogausses
laminar zone
linen and worsted dress unions
low frequency enhancement
magnetic confinement fusion
manach
mastodonts
microstructure test
misadd
moker
morrisonicola
New Mexico, State of
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novocains
Ouga(Houga)
outbreasted
outer width
placing-out.
polyglottism
Port Hood
porters
postsulcal
priceless treasure
protreptics
put that in your pipe and smoke it
radiation of sound
ramus acromialis arteriae thoracoacromialis
rape flower
reachable accessible
sea-related
selectmen
series-feed oscillator
simple grain cleaner
snub dodecahedron
soap-and-water
spur on a willing horse
staggered tooth side cutter
stitching horse
taals
thereto
therouxes
tie-
tuned radio frequency reception
ultimate unit
Unterammergau
update register edit list report
Upton Sinclair
valenzuelas
Vaucluse, Dép. du
vegetable oils and fat(s)
vehicle management
water pillar
Windsbach