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


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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
access-opening
adjustable mask
alavis
apterichtus moseri
autarcetic
bangarang
barmecide
beaked parsleys
belly burst
benbulbins
blade stall
Block voting
brainstormer
burnard
burqaless
chrysoberyl cat's eye
circularity of rope
confluents
contel
controllable reactor
curve pen
cybersociologist
cyclopoid larva
deviancies
dropping head
duplex geared pump
effective inside volume of kiln shell
embassadorial
epiphenomenalisms
estate by the curtesy
estimability of parameter
fatah-rcs
Feragen
fowerakers
furnace air
gars de locmine (brittany)
general action
geologic investigation
giclas
glass beads
gobo
golilla
grevilia
haplosporangin
Heavenly City,the
hepatic tissue
hipping
hot minutes
hot-water storage tank
hypsography
implicit pointer
improportionable
infective fistula of sinus of nose
interrupted cw (icw)
jogging suits
L. Lat.
lovelace
ludwik hardness tester
Lysiloma bahamensis
marcellas
marstraining
mean deviation in daily rate
millionairess
Mosalla
mussaenda erythraphylla schum. et thonn.
myotony
Natiuran
net output value
netheward
network advertising
nissan
not to constitute a crime
optical modulation format
order of battle
per unit slip
Petronas Twin Towers
pons coxalis
power balance model
prenoxdiazine
rangekeeper
reaction-control data
rudder shoe
ruminant feed
shape element
sitts
sky blue pink
sobhuza
St. lawrence seaway toll
stoehr
sudokeratosis
tin buddle
toxicodynamic
traumatic erysipelas
trolley cable
under-hands
unenlightenments
unloader test
urethrostenotome
vinculum (pl.vincula)
wane-cloud
wear hardness testing apparatus