时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(六)月


英语课

This is AP news minute.


1. British police arrested a dozen of people Sunday in a widening investigation 1, after attackers using van and large knifes turned a Saturday night into a bloodbath, and killed 7 people in the heart of London. Shortly after the attack, president Donald Trump 2 waded 3 in on Twitter, saying "We need on the travel ban as an extra level of safety".


2. Ariana Grande returned to the Manchester stage, two weeks after a suicide bombing killed 22 victims at a concert in the same city. 60,000 fans attended the star set one love Manchester concert.


3. A Venezuelan musician and activist 4 performed a concert in Caracas. The event was dotted the street concert for life and was meant to be the protest against the regime of embattled president Nicolas Maduro.


4. People in the UK have responded to the deadly London bridge attack with sorrow and distinctly British humor. Hailing a man seen walking away from the Mayhem, holding a pint 5 of beer as tongue-in-cheek symbol of defiance 6.


Norreen Nasir, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
3 waded
(从水、泥等)蹚,走过,跋( wade的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She tucked up her skirt and waded into the river. 她撩起裙子蹚水走进河里。
  • He waded into the water to push the boat out. 他蹚进水里把船推出来。
4 activist
n.活动分子,积极分子
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
5 pint
n.品脱
  • I'll have a pint of beer and a packet of crisps, please.我要一品脱啤酒和一袋炸马铃薯片。
  • In the old days you could get a pint of beer for a shilling.从前,花一先令就可以买到一品脱啤酒。
6 defiance
n.挑战,挑衅,蔑视,违抗
  • He climbed the ladder in defiance of the warning.他无视警告爬上了那架梯子。
  • He slammed the door in a spirit of defiance.他以挑衅性的态度把门砰地一下关上。
学英语单词
Achipteriidae
alphaxalone
back coming
bahmia cotton
behave as
berilla
bill berry
bolch line
Buctouche
calibration power
call diversion information
cannon-fodder
carcass ply
character height
chrysanths
cloud atlas
come rain or shine
Cook, James
corpus spongiosumurethr?
cost per unit productive capactity
cudi
danderer
demyelinizing neuropathy
device status register
diencephalic autonomic epilepsy
dispersive capacity
driving key
dual-corest
ethnic-food
euchlorin
F. vs.
fat-splitting enzyme
forest bathing
free into barge
full open throttle
genus Primula
head recovery
heterologous antigen
hold your nose
hyptiotes affinis
inclusionism
inermous
input wave form
isoprobability plane
job's completion queue
King-Of-The-Salmon
law enforcement officer
ledinghams
Lycopersicum esculentum Mill
maccioni
Mahan
meet ... head on
meter cabinet
mixtures
Mollerup
natalities
nebularia telescopium
neght
nevus fuscoceruleus ophthalmo-maxillaris
operating table
oxcarts
pencil of curves of second order
Pertya berberidoides
phantom circuit telegraphy
phenyl-cinnamic acid
plexiform layer
pontoon bridge
poristic polygon
power of sprouting form stools
put people first
quater-cosin
quincuncial piles
railfan
reactive power relay
remote-indicator servomechanism
rolyn
rootch
self-flocculation
shaft seal leakage heater
shambolic
sintered electrical contact material
slaveholdings
spatial distance
spinae pedis
stake-holders
stationary sealing ring
superjection
surface layer temperature scale
Syncumar
syngamies
templize
thermo-compression
tineodids
topographic planimetry
tube stock
udcas
Union flag
washed out
wdas
wear extent
wet back boiler
workshop-sink