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
  • 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
A-exotropia
aerosol can
allotropic modification
Alrheumum
alternate recipient
amplatz
anytin
apparent
asparaguss
augur well for
Bly, Nellie
cameratube
capitalizes
cardboardlike
Carina Nebula(NGC 3372)
chemoreceptors in brain stem
circular fins
come off duty
complex phase factor
computational technique
computer evaluation
coraphene
counter-evidence
crystal pulling furnace
decaux
dollar-baseds
false widows
fishery protection
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
free business
fro-ing
genus coleonyxes
gratuitous payment
ground-level
halfing
heavy-damped wave
heimskringla
hermophenyl
human serum albumin (HSA)
hydraulic characteristic curve
hypomesosoma
impulsive distrubance
interrupt priority table
inverse markov chain
long thermal neutron detector
loop coupling
low-tension distribution box
Luphis
mammal-like reptile
marking colour
maximum speed governor
mecobalamin
nance
neurothelium
oil temperature rise trip device
pagejacking
peps up
Pinkerton, Allan
pisolitic grain
posting date
powered up
preestimate
pressure refueling
production registry
proven ability
public interest model
radio communication system
reactor control console
reauditing
recapitulative invoice
recessus camerae posterioris
reels in
regardless of expense
riding-stables
Sajama, R.
scleroblast
sedes
self-fluxing brazing alloy
shit-kicking
sindon
single-precision number
sliding-plate valve
sluggin'
snap-brimmed
stitchdown
tap extractor
tarum pusht
tautonymic
tetracola
thrift institution
total head efficiency
tray bon
two-stator-rotor motor
uka
unequal heating
unteamed
unwontedly
Vat.
wall accretion
wawk
white pine blister rust
wre