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
acoustic diagram
aczel
aitchless
Anisomeles indica
arkosic sandstone
bearing cast iron
brackman
Brategg Bank
buffer stock plan
butyrivibriocin
car ventilation
central gold reserve
cinesiology
common debts
compulsively
cover stories
cracking residue
crimp force
data entry database
deddy
Donohue's syndrome
double - stranded dna
enforces
ethylins
ex-germfree
first-order error
flagposts
foreign exchange purchase journal
forming without stock removal
fuel tanks
funiculuss
fuses for external protection
garske
Geneva stop
glass-top
gobbles up
guall
Hebrides
hypophysectomize
IHRP
imagemasters
iniofacial
instruction systax
insulating power
intensating
ipomoea horsfalliae hook.
job control stream
karola
kenbow
Khanty-Mansiysk
lamina rara
large-mouth
laryngeal probe
locally d-optimal design
make ... ill
meaners
Medina de Rabat
melodious
moving expenses
neissers
nembie
neutron diffraction
Nogai
non originating content
normal sort program key ranging procedure
nursery education
odds bodikins
on a merry pin
Ophiorrhiza luchuanensis
page break between groups
patched - up
peak identifier
perfecture
precision machined tool
prestressed-concrete vessel top slab
private prosecutor
Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke
recrushing
redundant location system
remolded
running royalities
share operatior system
slip resistance
smoke chamber
solar thermal systems
spaying
stained paper
stem rot
storing mechanism
stressreliveing
supporter
tap of trapezoidal thread
tensile and compression test
ti t'an
totalsolids
trans-sarcolemmalchannel
unbadged
upward component
valve leaf
victorian architectures
welding torch
wing tip chord