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
Alplate process
armring
arteriae submentalis
automatic volume controller
Basomin
bryden
cauchemar
chart drawing nib
choledochoplasty
city climate
compressive failure
concealer
conference for supplementing goods
cosmize
crownform
daimyo bond
dash speed
decembre
digoxigenated
direct on line switching
Dumitresti
E. N. T.
ecclesiology
Einstein-Fowler equation
electric metallurgical works
electron injector
Eleusine indica
Ellersburg
ethyloic-
face advance
financial tranaction
Finger L.
flat rack
frequency changer set
full-cut
garter stitch
Gaynerd
general-purpose microprogramming
Gentiana pubicaulis
genus ixobrychuss
gillowflower
global section descriptor
hunting probe
hypobasal half
indicatrix of optic monoaxial crystal
initial cap
intragroup
James Monroe
JEMRB
jinn
Lipoamin
little's
macquarium
melt(ing)-in cyclone
mould holder
narcisses
nautch (n. india)
noto-pleural muscle
of great concern
Orbisonian
other days, other ways
oxylung
paid-in capital increase
passenger liner
peashooters
percentage utilisation
periphera weld
pokin' smot
presentation of the cheque
pressure sensitive mat
pressure-filled
purpose psychosis
pyrotomalenic acid
raman nath diffraction
regeneration pulse
rhythm of life
ruzadolane
S-shapedkidney
sap-green
semi-autonomous
shaftways
shaping operation
shelliest
silo cell
silvestrii
social condition
solauricine
SPDT (single-pole double-throw)
Stenolaemata
stout (beer)
suction pipet(te)
symbolic signs
thiofuradene
toa (time of arrival)
towerlands
traquilizer
USCGC
Varzaqān
war-ship
Weighted Average Market Capitalization
worked against
zero range calibration