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
1-amino-8-naphthol-6-sulfonic acid
1-phenyl-2-o-tolylhydrazine
air officer
Andratx
Arija
automatic document control system
basso - relievo
Bdiff
bend specimen
blow the roof in on
bromomycetin
broom made of kaoliang straw
bubble and squeaks
ceed
cementless insulator
characteristic sheet
Circum-Pacific Tectonic Region
clavicle
clinch nailing
composition file
cornua cartilaginis thyroideae
cracked constituent
cross-ownership
echofree
electron removal
engrossed in thought
epicutaneous tests
family dasyuridaes
floor drainage pit
fluidizable particle size
formal qualification
fruit purec
fuccillo
fuel tank check valve
galabiah
glycosylphosphatidylinositols
Good Middling Yellow Stained
gravity-wave
hectares
heptadienal
income before tax
Irtyshite
issuna (suna)
josef hoffmanns
keroon
law of cost
Leherschutz
load-following capacity
lypothmia
madakis
megabalanus tintinnabulum
Mitani
mpla
mustesa
near-mint
NEGAT
penalty point
pentitol
plant sterol
platinum-rhodium
Plectospirifer
post-modem
pre-sintering
precipitation current
primary amputation
primary bronchogenic carcinoma
Rafael, I.
relative and absolute returns
rewashed
Rhus javanica
Rogue River
rotblats
schedule of ore drawing
Schkölen
scirtids
seagirdle
semimicro-analysis
server control
shoulder refacing tool
sinocythere sinensis
slashings
slotted coun tersunk flat head drive screw
smoked pot
spacing brake
spasmodic contraction
speedometres
steering-wheel lock
supergalactic latitude
superstructing
surreach
syringae
tabooed
tea-trolley
tempered chocolate
testudo
tetradecylene dicarboxylic acid
thyrostachys siamensis (kurz)gamble kyaung-wa
toe of retaining wall
transducer mount
undevelopedness
VIp-36
wolfram carbide