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
a pair of shears
acid etching of glass
agammaglobulinaemias
aibo
Anadyr'
antinomist
antitubercular drug
aristobuluss
arizona ashes
Badger two-stage distillation process
bagged cargo
bassetts
Bolton L.
bonville
carbon refinery
christmas song
civilian requirements
collaria arcyrionema
come make an agreement
complete visibility
counterpropagandize
cyclosiloxane
data-cube
defence communications system
dry cells
electronic theory
eudiometric, eudiometrical
even logic block
expandeth
external constraint
family Salpidae
Fastens-Tuesday
fault-tolerant workstation
female employees
First Duke of Wellington
flatness inspection
Florida smoothhound
frothing oil
generifications
half-full
hand skidding
hewhole
high-speed magnetic amplifier
human blockhead
hunted person
indexing machine
intrinsic density
kaliessexite gabbro
kinetic muscle
Knott's equation
large amounts of money
maackia tenuifolia hand.-mazz.
Maasbree
marchantia diptera mont. et n. ab. e.
Mawchi
mesentery of vermiform appendix
midriver
morphometrician
musculi iliopsoas
netbook computer
nominal earnings
non-intervention will
original net retained premium income
Orthodox Church of Czechoslovakia
ostray
parrotlet
Pelvis major
phase conjugate
phenarsazine chloride
portable weight
primary design variable
program support and advanced system
pyrostilpmite
rack wiring
read only memory (rom)
replantation
Rhododendron obtusum
runner pin
Salmonella give
sclerotic ossicle (or sclera)
sea-snipe
semi-truck
side bracing
slurry settler
smooth outflow
space wind coil
Spaniard
splendidous
sublymphemia
superfamily Aphidoidea
Syncalathium souliei
teach someone a lesson
the reliability engineering of software
transportation planning
turbine driven auxiliary unit
under-sense
unisexualized
unistar
weak
why-because
Willis Is.
wptf