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。
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acetylcytidine
advanced deposit
alkaline ashing
alternating direction method
Anethum graveolens L.
anticlinal division
antithesis
argon ion laser therapy
automatic spot weld
backstair
bear-pits
bite her tongue
broad on the bow
Calvin cycle
camasses
Celastrus hirsutus
Chateauneuf-du-Faou
coasting regulator
coffin ship
common blues
conical package with accelerated taper
cooling degree-day
copying ribbon
Cuneopsis
cut image range finder
DeBrazza's monkey
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
direct battery power
direct reinforcement
disilazane
douan
drumken saw
dry-shelled cataract
end axle
factor table
federal congress
female horses
fishery census
frustrable
geminin
general examination
genus Sphacelotheca
Homerid
icecreamery
interlocking of points
irrationlise
j.p.m.
Jeans, Sir James (Hopwood)
Kadpa Ngonpo La
KCCT
Klanism
lute a mold
machinery material expense
Madre de Dios River
malfeature
maternidad
mesial and distal movement
metavanadates
microfluorescene measuring method
movable coil
N-particle
parthenogenesis
peace for our time
per cent of spring wood
phenylglyoxylonitril oxime O,O-diethyl phosphorothioate
production and sale
Proguanid
pseudoqueen
quadrature tube
Redondo Beach
reinforced plastics
rescale
resting oxygen uptake
securitinine
serial number code
sinden
singenite (syngenite)
smaragdine
so help me God
spetouse
statment
stickin' around
superimposed load
tealeave
teamoffices
television terrorist
termination circuit
thumb down
to skid
triangular pediment
trichopore
typhas
unpulverizable
Veigaia
velocity traverse
vertical fault
warna
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without expression
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