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
accelerated frame
alfast
allied export selling company
atmospheric pressure process
avantage
bad munder
bally stand
batting crease
be unable to hold a candle to
bilge pump plunger rod
brass work polishing
C1-
chalcedonic sinter
chapeaux
chelating ligand
CHKDIR
cholestenes
clearance cost
code routine
cold reduction of tubes
comprehensive insurance
contraction and release
cortex laricis
defamatory words
digital transmission measurement
drastic setback
dualbeam synchroscope
DXpedition
electro cardiograph
envelope glissette
false truffles
file tooth forming tool
filling culvert
fiorenza
flake white
front clearance angle
genus Tragopogon
George Mason University
Haematoconite
have something done
heliomicrometer
huisman
hydatid thrill
hyphenation dictionary
It is always a pleasure to greet a friend from afar
Japanese star anise oil
lumpish
maercker
Marcos
minor offender
monoplegia
mud map
multi-focus lens
multi-reasonable check
muscular atonia
mustard family
Müstair
navaga
neutral bus-bar
non-designateds
Obsessive Computer Disorder
organon spirale
overrunning of signal
partnership certificates
pentagonal tristetrahedron
photoperturbation
phyllosomata
physical surface hardening
pixellated
placenta Praevia totalis
pop-under
ratchetting
rate of use of invested funds
reaction rate current
residual homology
right trapezoids
seatrouts
seedling diseases
settle out
simple topology
sinsemillas
small nonlinear
Soleniama
stereoconvergence
stir fried
strombotta (italy)
submarine volcano
swanks
talk game
The Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act
there you go (again)
thumpers
tril.
two dose survival curve
Uvarovo
vinyl isolator
waste load
water release
X-bridge
yeltsin effect
Zaire, Prov.do
Zwenger's test