时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(八)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions is answering President Donald Trump's call to crack down on leaks of classified information. On Friday, Sessions announced to renew focus on the issue, saying "the culture of leaking must stop."


US employers added 209,000 jobs in July, a second straight month of robust 1 gains according to a new US jobs report. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.3% -- a 16-year low. The report is likely to boost expectations of future interest rate hikes.


In Kansas City, officials say about 10 people were sickened by a suspicious package in the mail room of an IRS building. Employees complained to have been vomiting 2 and sweating after the package arrived, and two people were taken to the hospital. The incident remains 3 under investigation 4.


And in Louisiana, the US Coast Guard awards four men public service medals after video of a flood rescue goes viral. A TV reporter shot this video updated Phung ripping the top off a convertible 5 to save a woman and her dog during flooding last summer. Phung recieving the Coast Guard's Silver Lifesaving Medal for his bravery.


Robert Bumstead, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 robust
adj.强壮的,强健的,粗野的,需要体力的,浓的
  • She is too tall and robust.她个子太高,身体太壮。
  • China wants to keep growth robust to reduce poverty and avoid job losses,AP commented.美联社评论道,中国希望保持经济强势增长,以减少贫困和失业状况。
2 vomiting
吐
  • Symptoms include diarrhoea and vomiting. 症状有腹泻和呕吐。
  • Especially when I feel seasick, I can't stand watching someone else vomiting." 尤其晕船的时候,看不得人家呕。”
3 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。
4 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
5 convertible
adj.可改变的,可交换,同意义的;n.有活动摺篷的汽车
  • The convertible sofa means that the apartment can sleep four.有了这张折叠沙发,公寓里可以睡下4个人。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了。
学英语单词
abrogation
accountable additivity
aculeated
advance sample
antiogoside
aopa
Argonz
art of pyrography
ascaridoses
auxiliary girder for controlling angle change
batch type heating furnace
biennial plants
bongle
brood-chamber
buddle frame
calderon
chloromethapyrilene citrate
clay-lined
clear request
cogwheel respiration
critical accident alarm
davoudi
digital pulse circuit
Dobrodzien
enny
epicenter azimuth
equity structure
equivalent current system
farrance
field of vision
Flood's equation
foot-shaped
freehold
Galloni
generator of a quadric
gennesaret
genus trichostigmas
height controller
HENRE (High Energy Neutron Reaction Experiment)
heterodontus
high speed seek
Hot-roller
hull attachments
idyl
in-page burst access
intelligenty
internal nucleophilic substitution
inviolabilities
ironising
ischial arch
ixodes
Kapiti I.
Lac au Saumon
lava dome
ligetis
lipoiodine
lobster shift
locking range
macro-consumer
macrographical
mahogany ore
make room for
manichaeans
Mao-particle
mississippi rivers
monthly mean of daily maximum temperature
nady
network-frame-rule
nives
nodosum
normal transformation
nuclearize
occupational radiation
organometallic reaction
overlean
Palizzi
peripheral-tissue
polytonic stress
Poupart
propylene-glycol diacetate
protoclastic structure
Puccinia bardanae
relay contact network
ribazuba
Riedel's process
rize
rotomolded
self-identify
sideroleukocyte
similar words
spread rumours
subtractive type interlacing
tariff concession rate
three-sheeting
to hold route for shunting
top of the flood
ultra-microelectrode
universal international organization
unrelishing
very high altitude
water-spout
zanclospora novae-zelandiae