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。
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Acta Apostolicae sedis
ahd
anaerobic cultivating apparatus
annulus area
bending the truth
Blair model
blockage in deglutition
Boschniakia
carpomitra cabrerae(clem.) kutz.
chalis
cinemact
Cleona
composite capital
conciliation and arbitration court
convolution integral
cuif
cytheropteron chiafui
cytophotometer
daincha
disposophobic
dome rock mts.
double-cone bit
eddy currents ultrasonics
electrooptical telemeter
eliptically symmetric distribution
enfoldeth
fast-response photomultiplier
figurize
fork ladle
Foucault rotating-mirror method
fracture-dislocation of lumbar vertebral bodies
fuel evaporation rate
functional menorrhagia
gastrulae
guelder rose
Haplanthoides yunnanensis
holdup time
hydrazine dihydrochloride
i-ie
industrial data
instrument exposure
International Amateur Athletic Federation
irreducibility
kelsky
krem-
Kébémèr
lambon
level alignment
lig. collaterale radiale
liquefaction of helium
lygodium flexuosum sw.
mud cock
multiantibiotic
multiple-domain network
murphy-sturm lymphosarcoma
nixious
normalized curve
oxygen steelmaking process
plowgirls
plunge shaving
power foldback
power station solar tower
preferential dividend
pressure drop across the reactor core
quotables
read ahead queue
recreational software advisory council for internet
Registration Admission Status
relax
response error
reverse grade
ring width
rubicundus ixodes
scharin
send word
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soap bark
solvent-resistant
spanaway
spaniocelyphus hirtus
stanislavs
submarine-launched
such-like
the big blue
time of regulation
Timtig
to stand for
topotactic twin (ning)
TR (tape recorder)
translocation method
turn brush
ultrahigh-speed particle
unmeritocratic
user-package
usx
Uumannia
vapor seperator
varsal
veliotes
weak brine
wopen
zoshchenko