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
accounts receivable others
acid fuchsin stain
additional allocations
agalmatolites
Alcian Blue
apws
armament vision line
artifice
atmospheric vacuum distillation unit
bauges (les bauges)
be admitted into
bearing number
bicrenate
boase
bridal make-up
burn to the ground
cabots
carbon dioxide system in seawater
chromatogenous
cooperative research program
counterflow vibrating screw feeder
crack arrest
Curcuma wenyujin
cuspidal edge
cyan halide
delay-action circuit-breaker
descartess
direct firing evaporator
discepts
dodecapeptide
dominate node tree
EBMZ
endophoric
first futtock
fortune cookie
gubernatorial
guichards
haemodromometer
Heupelzen
hitherside
hot shrinkage
Houttuynia cordata Thunb.
hydraulic riveter
in circumstances
Jupia
kabl
karcase
knick zone
ledaloyl
left-hand drives
linear content
lug length
main ejector
make a turn
measure microphone
molegrips
nightglow
onopordons
optical fiber connection
outstart
ox-boy
palma
Pathfinder Res.
pinnaceous
plagiomnium succulentum
postponable costs
predisponent
pressure node
primary cell culture
pseudo cross-bedding
public-lands
Quonset hut
RMCH
rotary brush cutter
rusells
saboed
sale and leaseback
security gain or loss
sinneresses
slope-controlled arc wilding power source
small airway function
soutie
sphere-gap voltmeter
spring rockers
squeezekin
strong noise
superexcited state
supervisory measure
tailing column
the Council of Economic Advisers
thermostable opsonin test
time-varying set of patterns
tutsi-dominateds
twist someon's arm
two-drum crab
underwhelmingly
ungnement
vein of kidney
vert space
vietnam block
wind power industry
worthan