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
A-10 ll
acute primary diaphragmatitis
advisoes
Afroed
alice cooper
alice springs (stuart)
apon
as fast as one's legs can carry one
athamaunt
automatic level controller
axial-force
ba'
Bol'shaya Laba
carbon rod
Chrey Kaong
CNS
coerced accomplice
concurring opinions
consequent upon
CPHA
crime of disturbing the economic order
cyberworkers
cyclorama
damped wave equation
defining factor
devenish
diachroscope
diffusion of culture
dog's ear like skin fold
empty spare bag
eozoons
EQE
Escusa
extracoelenteric
fild
firedoor hood
fluorescence line width
food sterilization
formal-actual parameter correspondence
fused bifocals
Google Doodle
heterogeneous catalyses
horizontal mergers
idle metering jet
idle speed adjustment
indirect interlocking
Informational efficiency
inspection of pattern
interfacial defect
intermediate film pick-up
kittinger
Knight of Christian Charity
liner cementing head
match-merge operation
Midouze
mishmashing
multi jet condenser
multiturn rotary encoder
neutral humus
nicouluine
non-profit institutions
noncyclist
normal random variable
overhope
ovi testa
p.e.
picture signal polarity
pocket multimeter
Pomuch
powdering tubs
Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children
pressure register
proclamations
quilon (kollam)
radiation conductivity
radio-frequency attenuator
rape oils
regressive species
revaluation
Roman times
rotation transform angle
round off number
roundpod jute ?
satin stripes
scienter
selenocentric coordinate system
sideslip
sign-writers
solar power satellite
stainless steel hex nuts
tinsons
tomorrow night
torsion gliding
Trotskyist
twin-disk drill
ultra-high frequency ultrasonic wave
uniformly monotone mapping
valve lash
visnomies
wash-trade
water round torpedo tank (wrt)
weighted fair queuing