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-a
absorption resistance
adedeji
agro-technical station
all the whole world knows...
amictic
aminohexose
Ashizuri-misaki
asphalt coatings
assembly print wheel
Ballycumber
blood screening
bluff sb out of
brachystaphytic
burned-out
burnished edge
butanedial
campshot
capital prisoner
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cerebral vesicle
Chalcolithic Age
chrysiptera cyanea
cleat insulator
comparison of projects
conical cap
core-drill method
cushion disk
damage growth
deathlessness
discontinuous wave
Doctor of Music
domicile by operation of law
double j groove weld
drinking ages
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electric unsulating tape
equitable treatment
expected angle
film-coat
first-tier
Flogistin
forest school
freezing injury
go to school
gpNu1
Grosspiculagia
HA2
Harsipur
hotses
hyperplasmia
ignition index
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inherency
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intersensorial
isomerized hop extract
isomethadone
kinesthetic feedback
La Pava
laptop hobos
lifetime of the state
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resurgence
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semiotica
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Specialist market
SQA
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Tiantai
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wheat breeding
white - water rafting
zamorensis
zero modification