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
abatement of tax
acidimetrically
aerated candy
aerophotogrammetric(al)
airborne relay station
Alagez
alternating current commutator motor
amniochorion
APILEPSIN
autonomous decentralized computer control system
binocular flicker
bioacoustically
Brtnndt's treatment
Bullecort
cable-railway
Cambourgh
changes back
charybdis variegata
chavaga
chief-draftsman
coaxial resonant cavity
colic lymph nodes
combined braking system
configurational symmetry
congruence expression
crankpin metal
desertrice
Dian Cecht
dicarlo
Digitaria setigera
direct cut grass and pickup attachment
down hill right turn
electrooculographic transducer
equalitarian family
fault sag lake
fieger
fingerroot
first-difference
fright neurosis
glassivation
grubisha
harahan
hematopoietic microenvironment
hemorrhagic focus
horizontal pulled gate
housing covef for timing gear
inbred-variety cross
inshore rescue boat
intelligent peripheral controller
jailhouse lawyers
Kirton
longitudinal transmission check
manawatus
minorizes
Morus rubra
muleshoe guide
multineurotrophin
multiple spindle drilling machin
mushroom powder
neesberry
nesodiprion japonica (marlatt)
non-medicated
non-radiation field
nonsupporter
Nucleus habenularis medialis
nyctophiles
Old Trafford
on-board regulation
one's bump of locality
order marchantialess
ouabain
outfire
overhead manipulation
para-methoxybenzaldehyde
photoworks
plate coil
play host to
playacts
polyphase commutation machine
primal horde
professional journal
quarter fast
related documents
Revsbotn
rutilate
Scilly Islands
sermonizes
shock bending test
smoke nozzle
splendacious
stepping point
stiltbirds
sub-divides
successive imbricate thrust
Tachty
temper troostite
test control specimen
three-dimensional warfare
toll telephony
total thrust
unistrand
unstruggling