时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(三)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. Four people were killed and 20 others injured at the British parliament in London on Wednesday. A knife-wielding man mowed 1 down pedestrians 2 in a SUV on Westminster bridge before stabbing an armed police officer to death inside the gates of the parliament building. Police said they are treating the attacks as a terrorist incident. 


2. An Associated Press investigation 3 found president Donald Trump 4's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort  secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Manafort confirmed his employment but said the work was being unfairly cast as inappropriate. 


3. Powerful GOP congressman 5 Devin Nunes, the Chairman of the house intelligence committee said President Trump's communications may have been monitored during the transition period, as a part of "Incidental collection". He said the communications don't appear to be related to the ongoing 6 FBI investigation into Trump associate's contacts with Russia. 


4. In Jerusalem and just-in-time for easter, the tomb of Jesus has been resurrected to its former glory. A Greek  restoration team completed the historic renovation 7 of the shrine 8, that tradition says houses the cave where Jesus was entombed and resurrected. 


Norreen Nasir,  the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 mowed
v.刈,割( mow的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The enemy were mowed down with machine-gun fire. 敌人被机枪的火力扫倒。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Men mowed the wide lawns and seeded them. 人们割了大片草地的草,然后在上面播种。 来自辞典例句
2 pedestrians
n.步行者( pedestrian的名词复数 )
  • Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement. 几个行人在结冰的人行道上滑倒了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Pedestrians keep to the sidewalk [footpath]! 行人走便道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
4 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
5 Congressman
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
6 ongoing
adj.进行中的,前进的
  • The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
  • The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
7 renovation
n.革新,整修
  • The cinema will reopen next week after the renovation.电影院修缮后,将于下星期开业。
  • The building has undergone major renovation.这座大楼已进行大整修。
8 shrine
n.圣地,神龛,庙;v.将...置于神龛内,把...奉为神圣
  • The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
  • They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。
学英语单词
a new chum
acetylnerbowdine
advencoun
aggregation of particles
air changes
alert always
alpenstocks
animal fibres
antiprofanity
auditory scale
Autti
bandpass
Barton, Sir Edmund
behaviouristic
bidirectional current
Bluntisham
board chair
Brossasco
business revival
button up one's pocket
c.p.l.
central (central region)
CEXC
chair bombs
chickerees
circular-wait deadlock condition
concentric fibroma
conservativist
cska
customary's performance deposits
dental drill engines
E-cycle
epos
ethylene compressor
evaporation rate
exopt
exprimer
fixed shaft transmission
fork lever
Fowler's angular incision
gatrillion
genus kenyapithecuss
Get out with you !
goodtempered
Greek fire
hard-cooked
Hato la Vergareňa
heredopathia
high temperature ablative material
in right of sb.
jig-borer microscope
Kamchatka River
lateral vibrations
Ledaňa
look daggers at sb.
maxillofacial injury
mercury unit
misimproves
neural structure
nighty-nighty
non-tangential
overhead fans
phyllosticta sterculiae-nobilis
platform trailer
polar cushion of glomerulus
praest-
privilege against self-incrimination
pseudostems
pyrolaxon
rambostan
resin adhesive
rheumatology
Roerich
roman churches
scaling method
sea level contour
shoreline of emergence
simple integral
spurging
Student Law.
surface crystallization
tall buttercup
tank ear
temporarily out of service
thallium beam clock
thermic piston
threshold operator
through-type freight station
toothed sleeve
tropic amnesia
two-coil relay
typical profile
unfollower
ungratifying
unpungent
ventri-
vertical galvanometer
vetarsenobillon
wave shoaling
whow
with one's eyes glued on
yolk-sac endoderm