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
accounting cost
additional tolerance
aluminium factory
anarrow
anterior ligament of radiocarpal joint
antiprosecution
ash box
asymmetric side-band transmission
auxiliary wages
be the very picture of
caudiduct
choked back
cinclidium leucurum montium
closed-cycle hydraulic piston pump
conjunctional arc
Cooper pairs
Core PCE deflator
cubic capacity of bales
daoust
defibrillations
dialysance
double crossover(scissors crossing)
echolocalization
emender
emersio
end of number
ethyl-dihydro-testosterone
exergasy
experimental subsea station
file scan
fixed expense
generated electromotive force
hiv prevention campaign
I'll be shot if...
InitApplication
intercellular digestion
intramicrite
ion exclusion separation
jump on board
kenworthy
Kimeridge
lambda shock
Lapponian
laughingly
main tail feather
medium-term multiple currency loan
mesolecithal ovum
Milankovitch cycles
modified binomial distribution
molded lens blank
my name is
new world coral snakes
non manufacturing costs
nonreusable
normal barometer
nosy parker
odontoclasis
Orajärvi
oual-shape
oxyrygmia
peak flow rate
Phoebe hunanensis
photoreconnaissance
pierrots
potteringly
pre-feminist
priesnitz
propagation power
prototectonics
public disaster
pump actions
put someone through a catechism
recto-vesico-vaginal
ridge field
right-hand engine
role-based
roof-bolting stoper
sign transfer function
Sindis
single chip computer
smut funguss
splinter pulling
stabilization amplitude
steel bar mechanical connecting
straightness of stitches
Sudoma
support deviation
system tracks
tap funnel
tape out
technical archives
to choke
transvenous pacemaker
traveling cold-mix plant
tubal abortion
tweeped
upholstered armchair
upsadaisy
value-result parameter
vietor
wedge groove
Woolfish