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
aircraft patrol area
all inertial guidance system
anti-morality
atticsful
averaging spectrum
background brightness
bird cage
blend blitter
blue story
Burong
bush fire
cannot be too
carburesttor
Cartland Barbara
Christie, L.
closure of track
Columbia Gas System
concurrent operations control
consolidated freight classification
constant strabismus
corrugating die
crystal chronoscope equipment
denasalizing
Diderocera
dog brier
domain expertise
draw-in runner
earthquake tremor
exit strategy
genealoger
germinal layer
global circulation model
Gomphreneae
grandmother
hepatocerebral degeneration
Holl.
human serum albumin (HSA)
hypopn(o)ea
immediate atmosphere
inhibited oil
involute spline hob
is similar to
isamoltan
jasen
jointers
kjerstin
kosher salts
library entry
loxoconcha chihjeni
lusungite
maggipinto
makiere
maleficient
manual dilatation
military jurisdiction
mixy
mornin'
Multai
mushroom soup
non-random two liquid equation
not know whether one is coming or going
off-world
olsterholm
overlayers
oxoamide
Paschim Maudām
perfectly black body
phenexion
plasma source ion implantation
plateosaurids
pre-diabetic
primary goods
procerebral
Procyno
progressive stroke
pseudoquinine
pueroside
put sth into sth
relaxation property
rotor distributor pump
sample rock container
Sawyerville
service type test
shuffling position
skiddish
smooth note
Spice Islands
sprigger
supercapillary
sweepup
swing producer
sword-shaped
synchronous energy
temporary states
Terhathum
Thanh Liem
ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene
water-
wireroom
wood-based panel?
zigsaw
zone of transition