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. The house intelligence committee hearing started Monday into Russia's role in cyber interference in last year's U.S election. The investigation 1 includes president Trump's claim that former president Obama had him wiretapped. 


2. Senate confirmation 2 hearings are set for Monday for Supreme 3 Court nominee 4 Neo Gorsuch. If confirmed,  the appellate court judge from Colorado could replace the late Antonin Scalia. 


3. North Korea's state-run media announced the country tested a rocket engine that could be used for launching satellites. North Korea claims the engine could have peaceful uses. The country is banned from testing long-range missiles. 


4. And firefighters say a wildfire near Boulder 5, Colorado is at least 50% contained. It forced residents to evacuate 6 hundreds of homes. 


Shirley Smith,  the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 confirmation
n.证实,确认,批准
  • We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
  • We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前,我们需要书面确认。
3 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
4 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
5 boulder
n.巨砾;卵石,圆石
  • We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲,把大石头搬开了。
  • He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。
6 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
学英语单词
acute hypocorticalism
air-sea flux
alternate channal selectivity
anhaptoglobinemia
anode-load impedance
antireflective film
Aphyllorchis
ATCL
attestation clause
average number of days to turnover
Baby Bell
backspeir, backspeer
basikaryo-type
Bassermann
bessen
burqua
candiac catheter
canterbury-bankstown
centralized operation
clinoholmquistite
commers
Conchidium pusillum
CR (coherent rotation)
cubic closest packing
demand for
dine out on
direct costing
dissection of aorta
dyscrasied
ertu
exhibition centre
fevre
financial exchange rates
flower with calyx removed
fluxionality
foreacre
garf
guinea grainss
harder's gland (or harderian gland)
hydron c heating
incorporally
input/output editor
interface device
kelds
lactation curve
lagory
lesar
lightweight lime concrete
linkage force binding force
linked to owner
linnaeas
lithophilia
make a meal of
maysilles
medulla suprarenal
megacomputer
microwave background
net total income
neuroelectronic
No question
nondivergent vorticity equation
occasione
one fuel ship
opticochiasmic
packet rate
pharyngeal papilloma
piezoelectric modulus
porush
primary backing
primary coils
principle of least astonishment
pro-chancellors
processing ratio
program lock-in register
Pulitzer, Joseph
punt kick
Pyridine-4-aldehyde
re-creator
reluctant element
rhineharts
ribotoxic
runoff factor
Scombresocidae
sea breeze convergence (zone)
service user
Shishaldin Volcano
shuttle diplomacy
sideroblastic anaemia
silk spun yarn
strength across grain
sulphaphenazole
tagaturonic acid
tce.
thimble-shaped
To'iave'a
transecting
Troisvierges
tropical fresh water loadline (tf)
ultraaudible
Vaccinium crassivenium
veradale
well noted