时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


President Donald Trump 1 is decertifying the Iran nuclear deal, calling on Congress to fix it and threatening to pull out completely. But his announcement is drawing push-back from Europe and Iran, where leaders in both regions say they are sticking by the accord.


Firefighters are making progress in the battling wildfires in the heart of California's wine country, but it continues to be tough-going. Authorities say the fire in Napa and Sonoma Counties is 22% contained, but the loses are tremendous -- more than 30 people dead, and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed.


Authorities in Las Vegas say the gunman in last week's massacre 2 meant to strike aviation fuel tanks at the city's international airport when he fired on thousands attending a country music concert. The motive 3 remains 4 a mystery. Authorities say 45 victims were still hospitalized, with some in critical condition.


After being wiped out in New England in the 1800s, wild turkeys are staging a big comeback. Public complaints have been surging with residents in Boston saying the birds are damaging cars, destroying gardens, even attacking people.


Ned Barker, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 massacre
n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中,这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀,大屠杀就有可能再次发生!
3 motive
n.动机,目的;adv.发动的,运动的
  • The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
4 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
3-carboethoxypsoralen
abute
anacafe
anitrogenous
Antero Reservoir
bagladies
bards of avon
batch zone refiner
Better to be blind than to see ill.
Bolza problem
botaniser
bubble-cap tray tower
Buňola
cams
closed loop program
conflict-free
conversion volume of turnover
corrector unit
ctenosauriscid
dentiscalprum
detonation characteristic
Deutzia breviloba
differently able
dry-seeded rice
Duhem-Neurath-Quine thesis
Edison
editor print-punch
exogenic action
faithful servant
finning
frogfishes
full service
gabard
gate signal
gorge with
gravity-arch dam
Hodgen's method
hypotraction
imperfect market
in days to come
inoperably
intra-county economies
leclezio
liao na
m. bucinatorius
mat jack-up drilling platform
matriarchal
melamine-formaldehyde resin
Metiskow
monolithic bar
nafusaku
navigating mark
neoprene coating
neuroeducational
Ontario Securities Commission
Ouezzane
overall loss
pal(a)eozoology
Panama Basin
Paneth's cell
Pateros
plate proof
pleasure-dome
policy learning
polishing plant
popsicle-stick
postgraduate teacher education program
pristinamycine
programmer named
quadrupole probe
ratio of transformer capacity to load
redemption fee
retailing sponsor
ripened drum
rodless reverse circulation rig
russett
Salmonella Oranienburg
serve your turn
shend
shepherdling
shot value
sinu-atrial valves
skew conformation
slip-cast
steam off
steam period
sub-greenschist
sulphur rain
Swift,Jonathan
symparalysis
tangential cam
telltale float
teomycic acid
the slope
tinplate mill
to grip
unfrugal
vanadium tetraoxide
vicuss
wake-adapted propeller design method
Wijs solution
yagna