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
3-Ethyl-5-methylphenol
aggressive policy
all layers
animal interlace
aphanisia
ballotages
basels
be overcome with sorrow
BFT
blastocladia pringsheimii
bright day
carrying rod
Cathysia old land
circumcizes
coal house
cold-snap
combustion control system
conduction heating
conjugative plasmids
convection currents
cost of import
countergambit
database surveyor utility
dealerships
difluoromethylenekeatone
dreaping
ear canal type earphone
employer's federation
eurysiphonata
federatory
filovaricosis
fiocchi
firsting
forsakenly
french-frier
front-pagest
fruit punch
grand inquisitors
Hollywooder
Huasaga
i want something to eat
ignition lag
infrared wave length
iron-clad switchgear
Kasanda
knee - jerk reaction
knit stitch
Kussmaul breathing
La Guardia de Jaén
Levol's alloy
lichen disseminatus
Lāna'i City
mass fraction
massive exposure
miniblogs
most-famous
MSK scale
multiple spring
multiple-input transfer function model
necrotic colitis
neoalsomitra integrifolia
nominal input voltage
nontheorist
Ogygian
online analytical processing (olap)
opcode field
open-circuits
Oresol
partial yield spectroscopy
Peňa, Embalse de la
Peňalba de la Sierra
porne
post treatment equipment
Pottermaniac
reduction law
rod pump
ruled diffraction grating
runology
saucer shape
self stopping gear
sinistration
smallpox vaccine
specification of econometric model
sprained
stack and scale to
stenosal murmur
stichomancy
tax-gathering season
telephony server api
tertbutyl
thermoelectrics
triquint
two-terminal switching circuit
use in
variable distributed lag
venae labyrinthi
vental
verge
very old
Viola verecunda
washballs
wax-scot