时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(四)月


英语课

 


This is AP News Minute. 


South Korea says key parts of THAAD missile defense 1 system have been installed. Demonstrators say they don’t want it despite tensions over North Korea’s nuclear ballistic missile programs. 


President Trump 2 insists the wall on US-Mexican border will be built. Plans to fund it would drop from current congressional budget talks. 


Rising rivers are threatening to cause more floods after several days of rain in North Carolina. Firefighters in Raleigh used rafts to rescue at least 6 people and a dog Tuesday. 


And a brush fire east of Phoenix 3 shut down part of the scenic 4 Bush Highway. Strong wind gusts 5 are fanning flames close to the Salt River in Mesa, Arizona. 


Matt Small, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
2 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。
3 phoenix
n.凤凰,长生(不死)鸟;引申为重生
  • The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
  • The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
4 scenic
adj.自然景色的,景色优美的
  • The scenic beauty of the place entranced the visitors.这里的美丽风光把游客们迷住了。
  • The scenic spot is on northwestern outskirts of Beijing.这个风景区位于北京的西北远郊。
5 gusts
一阵强风( gust的名词复数 ); (怒、笑等的)爆发; (感情的)迸发; 发作
  • Her profuse skirt bosomed out with the gusts. 她的宽大的裙子被风吹得鼓鼓的。
  • Turbulence is defined as a series of irregular gusts. 紊流定义为一组无规则的突风。
学英语单词
-lytic
a wiles
abime
absorptive spectrum
abyss of despair
aldeia da mata
allowable torsional vibration stress
arpeggiating
asbestos-cement
barrelmakers
battles of puebla
biparallel
Boca da Mata
bodybuilders
bound-bound laser
cab signaling equipment
capital stock preferred
cigarettes style band wrapping
citrite
commoune
conrunners
crossarm
crucible steel moldboard
cupriferous
curton
deficient irrigation
demand level
dew-point temperature
differential host
distributed real time operating system
eraser dust
escalope
factor model
ferralitic soil
fuel rod clad(ding)tube
Gabbropas
gallium(iii) chloride
gerea canescenss
guarded voltmeter
guepard
heaith
henri labroustes
high definition TV
human natural killer cells
humidity load
igfets
improcerous
inial
kukenaam fallss
laciniolate
ligamenta annulare radii
logic(al) data structure
lunar gravity simulator
make off
Masindi
measurement tons
mechanical dispenser
metallurgist
military sketch
mitiromycin
mphprice
Mājhiwāla
nickelson
niger seed oil
Nimwegen
Nolcuron
numericised
nutmeg geraniums
obsessive idea
off sounding
off-site storage
Ong Doc, Song
opening bottom
pars intermedia of vestibular bulb
pharaonic
physical record
polar coordinate representation
polytrophia
protested check
relay semiautomatic block
scalder-peeler
self aligning idler
Semi-Open Games
shadowing effect
share profit
silver hydrogen citrate
skin-diver
soft impact
space
spending pattern
superhelical coil
t-pas
Takabrucem
this or that
throwch
toxic shocks
tracheostomize
twenty-oneth
varve(varved clay)
wallaston mt.
zoetrope
zoogeographic region