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. 


1. The White House is calling a new inquiry 1 into former national security advisor 2 Michael Flynn "Appropriate". The pentagon's acting 3 inspector 4 general is investigating payments received by Flynn from Russia's state sponsored RT television network, as well as a Turkish-owned company linked to Turkey's government. 


2. The senior navy commander overseeing Pacific military operations says North Korea's crisis is at the worst point he's ever seen. Admiral Harry 5 Harris Jr. told the senate armed service committee he has no doubt Pyongyang intends to develop a nuclear missile capable of striking the U.S. 


3. Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau applauded president Trump 6's announcement that he will not immediately pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, as originally promised. Trudeau said he and Trump had a "Good conversation about the issue Wednesday night". 


4. And the penguin 7 colony at the London zoo has two new editions. The baby birds were hatched last week, one chick on Easter Monday, followed two days later by its sibling 8.   


Kelly Daschle,  the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 inquiry
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
2 advisor
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
3 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
4 inspector
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
5 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
6 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。
7 penguin
n.企鹅
  • The penguin is a flightless bird.企鹅是一种不会飞的鸟。
  • He walked with an awkward gait like a penguin.他走路的步子难看得就像企鹅。
8 sibling
n.同胞手足(指兄、弟、姐或妹)
  • Many of us hate living in the shadows of a more successful sibling.我们很多人都讨厌活在更为成功的手足的阴影下。
  • Sibling ravalry has been common in this family.这个家里,兄弟姊妹之间的矛盾很平常。
学英语单词
a cross beam
abounder
all-daier
almost bounded function
astrapia
austenize
ball collar thrust bearing
band stop filter
bill free from claims or defences
bisno
bolometer amplifier
boned
capital repairs
catalogue of articles for sale
chaff jamming
channel scanner
Chediba
chemophobics
chronicle.com
Colocasia fallax
color distinction
compensatory polycythemia
conractual guarantee
constant boiling solution
CSP
definition of irrevocable control strategy
Dolj
drotaverine
ebullience
economic cooperation zone
ethnic-racial
exchange customs
extension screw
feed change gearbox
filling effect rib weave
fond memory
forward transadmittance
full speed turbine stages
gin slings
give cards and spades
graunt
gulps back
hair of head
hba
Hydrocotyle pseudoconferta
hydrological model
impregnative
Induan Stage
internal pin wheel
introduction of
iron-smeltings
isolationistic
isopropylmalonic acid
kagools
lay-
lockstepping
lord of war
lower sample
markup language
mean suns
motorized wheelchairs
negamiles
nucleole
optic-fiber links
os hyoideums
pad weld
parathelphusa sinensis
pentalenolactone
peripheral clearance angle
petchary
pipeline gauge
piroheptine
plant molecular biology
potassium-argons
power drive system
predestining
prenatal care
pyaemia septica
Ranzo
regulating port
Research Libraries Information Network
retroperitoneal pregnancy
roll-on roll-off ship
route of infection
screen sb out
sinical
snap (systems for nuclear auxilary power)
soapsuds
stibium sulfuratum aurantiacum
supercharge
synchronous changes
Torrinha
ultra-soft ray
untangle
vacuum spin-freezing
vatching
virtual waiting time
wainscoting, wainscotting
walk up to the trough, fodder or no fodder
wand exercise
weatherworthiness
Zudan