时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(八)月


英语课

 


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。
学英语单词
a girl Friday
aerobic-anaerobic lagoon
air net
any other business
armbrace
atmospheric absorption noise
Australian or Tuvaluan Dollars
belt dressing
breithorns
butyrocholine
cadw
catalogue tray
ceriferum
chemical addition tank
cidered
cold air pipe
commande
compartment shield
concheros
Corydalis virginea
data command
de luxer
debolish
diethyloxonium chloride
direct trunk circuit
donkey drain pipe
double-pipe (heat) exchanger
draugr
eccl
El Ronquillo
El Terrero
end stiffener angle
equilateral polygon
exponential decline of oil production
face and side milling cutter
free-cutting steel
full voltage
gehenne
gibbs sampling techniques
gummed cloth
hands on background
homogalacturonans
homologenetic induction
Humboldt L.
inertial frames
instantaneous state
Kärne
laomedons
latheticus oryzae waterhouse
lattice fringe
lintelled
litterae humaniores
Maccabaeus
machine abstract
mannooligosaccharides
marshallena philippinarum
milk-vetches
mitosis in wound healing
multicargo carrier
N-representability
nano-ampere
nonanalytical
operating characteristics of electric machine
order Ginkgoales
orthobituminous coal
Ortueri
parsen window
peculiar-looking
pentagastrin
pentelide
peribuccal
pharyngeal fistula
primary gill rakers
promise sb a raise
pseudoaortic
red rice starter
regulatory site
repair by turns
rheodestruction
rijkaard
roughin'
rudder line
San Demetrio ne Vestini
sand foreshore
Sargassum carpophyllum
Screw loose
Shakaga-mine
Sitampiky
starter board
steam supply line
Stockerau
structured programming diagram
survey of income and expenditure
tapered handle
tattle tale
thalass(a)emia
three beam
Toksovo
Tqvarch'eli
uprootal
vitroclastic
Yorkshire Post