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
abasia trepidans
antipudic
appeal disallowed
aromaphyte
artwork generation
B.O.T.B.
barzels
basic exemption
Bingpeng San
carnapping
chalayan
chicken and onion cream soup
cock-throppled
conjugate bridge
cost waste disposal
court of exchequer
crank for electrode
crosswordlike
delayed pulse technique
describing function
determinizable
diplonychus rusticus
Dolly Vardens
double wheel gear
draw-bore pin
drove in
eckman
egads switch,egads button
elderberry
enamelo-cemental junction
entropy condition
environmental pressure
establishing-clause
fallen asleep
FBI agent
five-unit teletype code
fleetness
general headquarters
huxen
hybrid system check
Ilaka
inchingly
ingress of air
isenheim altarpiece
juniperus chinensis tsukusiensis
kolkhozs
Krasninskiy Rayon
lick one's shoes
literalizers
longeth
microcomputer based instrument
most pressing priority
murabutide
mythlike
nerka
nonprofit accounting
normal luminous intensity
nuclear-driven
objectivisms
oblinger
pan head
partially isolated sea
path determination
pentol
phenolphthalein alkalinity
phosphato-tungstic acid
phosphylenes
photocolors
pitch shots
precipitation shadow
propelling agent
psychanopsia
pummeler
respect property
Rest-on
Rev. Ver.
rhome
rolling temperature
safe working strength
sanitation engineer
scaffoldy
scaly-leg mite
searchlight signal
shirtcuff
similar-sized
sitobion smilacicola
skinny malink
social-mindedly
stottie
stranger-than-fiction
struckest
sulphonating bottle
surface acoustic wave waveguide
suspensory ligament of eyeball
tel.
thermal insulant
three-piece rotor
uranium diboride
valvule
vapor table
ventilation station
vortexing