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
吐
  • 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。
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acanthella
actual balance
adjustable mouth
aftertype
ambistamin
amphitrite lobocephala
anti-blocking agent
antimissile guided missile
apparent shoreline
articulatio genera
barbers' itch
beryx mollis
biosis
blushingly
breadcrumb,bread-crumb
bubble forming
caulds
Christiansen wavelength
clavidisculum acuum
combination of significance tests
congeeing
credentialling
Cruzeiro do Nordeste
current endogenous variable
Daxter
DFStn
dispreaded
down dog
downwaves
dynamic flow
economic consequence
edicion
elliptical valve diagram
equicontinuous homeomorphism
exit nozzle throat
field-mounted
fleeting control lever
fundus vesicae felleae
gaudery
grnvis
henchard
high-speed buffer register
horizontal knuckle joint press
indicator equipment
keep on deck
kewpie doll
key card verifier
lardine
Litsea kwangtungensis
macnaught
markets and fairs
mason bees
maxwell displacement current
medultoblastoma
message intercept table
metamorphic rocks
mialls
misdirectedly
movable oil plot
nonresident simulator computer system
northwests by north
not any longer
Ordnance Survey
over the knuckles
over-flap
peacock colour
peridinium pentagonum
phoenicein
picked dogfish
pocket boundary
poppylike
prophylactic serum
public indictment
pulls apart
pyrrhalta taiwana
quiet period
rebuyte
Reevesia longipetiolata
Rinco process
rodenhuis
royal braces
saunders red
sense of fault
sidescan
slave mode
sleep time
slow execution
solid pellet
solid-state circuits society awards
split-field photometry
Stachys kouyangensis
stengah
superspecs
Tokrau
topographical reconnaissance
under-expose
undershot wheel
undistractedness
unit authorization list
wheat middlings
wooden shoes
yard goods