时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(六)月


英语课

This is AP News Minute.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the suggestion that he colluded with Russians in the 2016 presidential election is an “Appaling and detestable lie”. During testimony 1 before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday, Sessions said he recused himself from the Russian probe because he was involved in the campaign and not because he did something wrong.


An American College student is being medically evacuated 2 back to his Ohio home after being released from serving a 15-year prison sentence in North Korea. The family of Otto Warmbier says they were only told last week the 22-year-old had been in a coma 3 since March 2016 where he was last seen in public at his trial.


Police officers across Georgia are searching for 2 inmates 4 who escaped a prison bus after killing 5 2 guards. The men then carjacked a driver, who pulled up behind the bus as it stopped on a rural highway.


And new reports suggest drones carrying heart defibrillators could save lives. The Swedish study found that drones arrived at the scenes of cardiac arrest almost 17 minutes faster than ambulances. Doctors say the concept is worth exploring.


Suzanne Yee Gaffney, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 testimony
n.证词;见证,证明
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
2 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
3 coma
n.昏迷,昏迷状态
  • The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
  • She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。
4 inmates
n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )
  • One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 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。
学英语单词
2-isopropyl-5-methylbenzoquinone
Abbe refractometers
Aberdeen Tunnel
acetocopal
acre-inch
addleness
Adipidone
Andocides
as sayh
aulacaspis divergens
average labor time
black diet
blight notice
block type heat exchanger
Bénat, C.
cancellation of business licence
catalyst precursor composition
catharpins
certificate of chemical analysis
chaenomeles sinensis (thouin) koehne.
chelidonium celandine
closed edge train
coeternalness
collision induced decomposition
conjunctions
cyanhydric
defraying
descendant of node
Dipteriformes
double bottomed hull
double-level road
drip irrigation equipment
eddleman
effective responsive quantum effeciency
electric scooter
electromagnetic induction device
erlangen program
exhibition season
fancy fabric
fitch bitch
flat-topped fold
frisked
functional zoning
Gollania
grillez
hinged type connecting rod
hold-down mechanism
illuminance standard
insulating oil gas content
intensified charging
intrinsic-barrier lowering
Iramaia
iso-octane rating
kanemarus
Kukak Bay
labefactate
Leutenberg
lienardia planilabrum
lycii fructus
Mastrevirus
methylfluoracetate
MK-7
Mushrif
noncactus
oil scupper
once-active
overresponding
paleotectonics
pathological motive
power system measurements
present stage
pseudo-level
rake rail
Recognized Subject of Salvage
residue production
right end
rugbyist
see the back of sb.
shop mall
St-Mathieu
stain with
stock-ticker
Subcuneiform
summer squash vines
sutteeism
syphilis of larynx
system measurement routine
tarawa
taxing power of congress
thermosonimetry
three-axle tipper
tompkinses
toner empty sensor
transmission control code
Twitterstorm
unacceptable condition
vibratile plume
voting-methods
wane
Wehrdikmansia
Wolhynia
zenographic