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
'Aïn Kerma
accident of navigation
air duct
american college testing program
Amerosporeae
ammoniomagnesium phosphate crystal
annuities payable
anti-dampness drug
Atka Basin
banana ketchup
Benton County
benzodioxin
best-of-seven
board house
brain tumor spoon
breakback contact
Brown-Symmer disease
bulk properties
cataclonus
catch handle interlocking machine
chilling spray
cholera siderans
communication line adapter for teletype
congenital aplastic anemia
consecutive weather working days
construction site plan
continuous irreducible representation
control of source
convex rule
crystalline condition
diasters
dines out
domier
Ennepetal
ergotamine caffeine
exterior heat and interior cold
fibroma molle
field nebula
first-stringers
flux synthesis method
genus Bassariscus
giftie
Hakkai-san
high temperature mass spectrometry
high-voltage supply
home background
home trade policy
hydrographical ship
image orthicons
l-test
leading-in equipment
Luhanka
Malafakalava
malevolous
maransis
median basilic vein
Meleney synergistic gangrene
multi-entry pulse converter system
mythe
nacid
naphthosalicin
nephtheids
Nicholsicypris
Noether's theorem
nonbudgeted
open-cycle gas turbine
ose
out of employ
out-feed
partus immaturus
pattern of organization
Pisum arvense
position indicating grid
Pénestin
relations
resonating cavity
run-out field of bubble
Seattle University
sepharose gel
she
smooth-talk
soft X-ray source
solubletoxin
song-writings
sound-proof door
soupground
standard block
summerising
surprise attacks
tentorial pressure cone
tire limit speed
tripamide
tritolide
two-part experiment
two-quantum annihilation
U.S. RDA
unchallenging
underarticulation
up gaze
Ural, Mt.
view log
Yules