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
agth
allogeneity
angeloylzygadenine
antifluorites
bath bombs
bean leaf beetle
bergonzis
beta-radioactive substance
bunyaviral
callideicl
carancha
cauky
cervicectomy
chemical tool
cholemias
christelite
CITRAC
climatological sheath
closed loop stabilization
colin powells
covert timing channel
critical crack extension force
deck head
denatured rum
directions about
docking survey
dribble into
ECTEOLA-CELLUOSE
electronic eavesdropping
Emanuel County
eye-hazardous ultraviolet radiation
ferro-uranium
futton
guyed-mast derrick
HD tuner
high-society
honoured dust
hydraulic cylinder seal
imposing tax on land occupation
input-output analysis method
Kampumbu
kindergartens
lassy me
ledloy free cutting steel
limited offer
linear time algorithm
localized pair
lorry-hop
makes ends meet
methylarsine sulfide
misshelving
monochrome television camera
MPEG
multiple branching decay
neochanin
netful
nonarticular
normal matrix
offset well
orbital simulator
ovalifolius
parnassians
peionychia
Permanent Undersecretary
Pfaffenreuth
phosphorian
physoclist
picture object
planar slide
pluriglandular insufficiency
potassium metabisulfite
professional method
progymnasma
r. buckminster fullers
rapid-discharge-rate capacity
respelling
river limpets
round turn
Sanjiang
shaqlawa
shift amount register
sideward speed
silicone heat-sink compound
stanley frank musials
stern-end-bulb
stone-horse
stratified regression estimate
syndesmophyte
synienai
synthetic-apertures
tallow titre
ticking bomb
trouble symptom
unlittered
untemptingly
vacuum production
vessel unit
voltohmyst (voltohmist)
went sideways
zero insertion force socket
Zou Yan