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
acoustic impedance log
ALWR (advanced light water reactor)
antiunitary
archaeomaterials
atob
Bay of Biscay
be flush of
beinness
Białobrzegi
biometric identity
booer
brushes up
butyl isopropylbenzene
carefully-chosen
central air-conditioning system
check sample
climate chamber
collinet
community shopping centers
concrete drilling machine
copy error mutation
correcting range span
corrosion loop test
countertraditions
cousin-in-laws
crooked-bow boat
curvembryonic
degraw
difficult-to-find
digital frequency display
diphenic acid
direct-acting shock absorber
distribution of social labo(u)r in definite proportion
dormitory suburb
Easter Parade
equistasis
fasso
Fat chance!
field-intensity distribution
flat bug
flint
fusulae
gelofusing
heredopathia
hide's theory
high elastic plateau
hyperglycemichormone
indirect labour cost
inferral
international aid
interpols
Itapetim
jamming of valve
kick-starts
lateral flap
malaisia scandens (lour.) planch.
maximum peak voltage
meiacanthus grammistes
mesorrhinium
musculus dorsalis externi
nelidov
octahedral sheet
operation protocol data unit
parity code
partner with
praeflorens
primary tap
probability in finite trials
psammotrophe
pylgreme
rare earth cobalt magnet
rated current
re-numbering
redfaces
rhodotoxin
Rhynchoglossum obliquum
Saladillas
sanitated
semi-permeable
set one's wits to sth
shames
shutur sowar
slutly
sodium gynocardate
staff float
steel rotor
Straloch
streamline curvature effect
stylistic marker
sub-loop
suicidogenic
superfold
swaddleband
thapsigargin
thyrsoid
update synchronization
Viola mandshurica
viva voce vote
yellow peach grub
yin summer-heat syndrome
yokking
yotta-metre