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
a bunch of flowers
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
actual occasions
aeroplane accident
agglutinatively
agliophobia
alatum
anertan
anode reaction
antecedaneous
arsoline
baking paper
blann
bodenmann
bridenbaugh
bromosaligenin
Byron B.
cbq
chalara urceolata
chromatography with mobile adsorbent
circ cubspace
Clavispora
cluster of fuel element
competitive exclusion
curvilinear boundary
cut decoration
Dartmouth College
delanys
doughnut tyre
down fold
drop the curtain over
dynamic routing
eupatorium lindleyanum dc.
examination of budget
fire detection system
fokine
force one's way
frequency mixer
ganilaus
generator of an Abelian group
genus Urophycis
giardini
gildan
half section tunneling
hot-air balloons
hypoxidaceaes
ironing-board
irremediability
Kbps - kilobits per second
LBLOCA (large-break LOCA)
longitudinal pressure
lynndie
malabar kinoes
menu-driven
model-specific
montara
mouthless monster
mulsums
multiple transform
myricodiol
nisans
nonmilitants
once-hidden
p190MET
paraguays
parallel trading
partial polarization
pchat
peel-coat
periostitis of wrist
Pindaric flight
Ploty
plutonium oxalate
pollardings
postcardiac
preischiopodite
pull weight
quasi-nilgroup
Quinsetrol
read-out integrator
reversed flow of qi
revision of treaties
secure voice unit
self-analysis
shire-reeve
shock-stall
Shumshu, Ostrov
silazanes
Smiths I.
stand-alone
streamline covering
stsci
syndetic word
take-up motor
test panel
tkday
tonnage law
toroid winding
Touton giant cells
Trautmannshofen
up flow type converter
upon a wind