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
adjustable-voltage system
APL2
armour glass acreen
automatic capping machine
banjolinists
bench-mark prblem
binary image processing technique
blindalley occupation
blue sky law
bolding ground
bostrycoidin
brake crank shaft
brokered convention
bruna
can failure detection
case-harden
casitas
centring system
champagne socialism
chromium(iii) fluoride
clock-driven
computing potential
condenser pick-up
control gaging (gauging)
convex symmetric maximum (csm) test
corn-powder
cubomedusan
cyathopoma taiwanica
damping frame
dead weight safety valve
deels
dick munch
dipcoats
diphycercal tail
direct loading
disposable tape reel
drava r. (drau)
end task
enrollment of members
flash point
foots oil
forbearances
geliqua
graphic application system
greatcoats
gross collector area
hellenic register of shipping (hr)
homolyticsubstitution
in the space
incomplete fractures
Jesse Tree
kydex
layout check list
line switchinig
low voltage switch
magnetic core buffer
nanograined
necessarians
negative brush lead
olmecs
organic (chemical) analysis
original sentence
over-stressing
oxidized ore
paraethoxybenxoic acid
perpetual annual rent charge
plasmatic intercellular bridges
pre-emptive right
price increase
pseudochromatin
psychic phenomenas
pubertas praecox
ramuli et spina uncariae
raywell
saved list cloths
sex-drives
Shaburovo
short takeoff speed
sibarth
siderobacter
sitting target
SLCS (standby liquid control system)
SMPTE
sowing by hand
spacing shaft
sparkpen
standard disk plow
Strensall
subalutaceous
subtractor
super-cluster
swing caisson gate
symbolic innovation product
temperature diffusivity
the last account
threer
two-pile velvet
very high frequency omnidirectional radio range
waipio
wet net
whole numbers