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
.dot files
aerial tower
after burn
Alviri-Vidari
american silver
anthodium
apple rot
arnaout (albania)
automatic electrically heated waterer
benzoyl hydride
boots-on-the-ground
bornesitol
Bright,Richard
build a dam
chemical powder extinguisher
chronic hematogenous pulmonary tuberculosis
chyle corpuscle
come the acid
credit cooperative
curbless
decompensated cirrhosis
diphtheric pseudomembrane
Distoma pulmonale
do a disappearing act
domesticate foreign customs
dual power locomative
electric meffle furnace
employee hand book
enneapterygius nanus
estuarial model
eyepiece micrometer
first-order perturbation
fluorothene
foreshadowings
four-piecest
gamma silumin
genus Claytonia
glass dish evaporation test
Gledhill
goal drought
hafnium boride
half-site
Hamiltonian line
heavy layer
Hebridean Isles
heliozincograph
hicatee
indication marks
indirect tests
interlocking operator
isotopically modified compound
just ton
korsnes (korsnaes)
laser computer
line of shearing stress
line-filter balance
lose track
make award on item by item basis
Mendelian law
metabolic disease
Myodo
neutron-electron interaction
non-local coupling
nonconvex quadratic programming
notandcircuit
orographically
orthorhombic hemimorphic
Pachyrhizus erosus Urban.
Paschim Bāsna
pollution relationships
portable debugging tool
price break conversion factor
progress of cargo work
prohibition-era
quasisocial
raise one's voice
rich coil
roving
sa'ar
Salix occidentalisinensis
saltwood
seim
self-simulating equation
siding for splitting train
softbill
specifics
staphylo-opsonic indices
stop-gaps
story completion
three-phase four-wire system
to croak
undercapitalisation
up-hill side
vesting deed
vim and vigor
virulent bubo
wash place
wealing
week-ends
work quality target
XERXES
zone transport refiner