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
Abailard
action drive
advisory organ
aerodynamics of wing
America First Committee
anastasiya
ashy
asphaltus
assubjugated
at someone's command
attested copy
Bank Street College of Education
blind tree
Bouton, Jim
Bykovskiy Rayon
Cabirean
calders
clip tile
clostripains
cocycles
coefficient of brightness
conductive system
cop us
cordis
correlation spectrometer
credit statement
cross lubrication
curtisite
de-coding
deady
decaudating
depth gauges
deturpation
documentory analysis
economic statutes
feltre
first-degree murders
fist-size
frequency modulations
full-service brokerage
Great cham
GVS
halopriming
heterophase polymerization
homonymous image
household-survey
i-tiled
immersion-type electrode
infant-industry
Islamic calendar
Kidnappers, C.
kiss the hand
kite flyer
korta
Langenbrand
laser bandwidth
liquor trinitrini
lock-following strobe
lymphocytic leukemia
mark of youth
maximum flow rate
media deregulation
Melen
middle gouge
midmeste
mini-bar
Mussolinism
no-paid allotment
offshore drilling vessel
onionweed
operating lever
original positive
Oryong
over powder wad
partial pressure measure gauge
paternalistic government
personal incomes
pier glass
pineapple cheese
plastic limit tests
pop-over muffin
prolonged humidity cycling test
rhombencephalon
Sablé-sur-Sarthe
say goodbye to
scale error
sheet fabric
Shelde
soil bin simulation test
spinning-gland
spool traverse
steelen
street academy
synchronisable
tenido
to discolor
tonitrophobia
trochosphere
unit of algebra
wagon pinch bar
worn in journal
zonal combustion