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
-porosis
acyl carnitine
ad-aware
aircoach
aircraft crew
American arbor vitae
an all-nighter
antigermination
antistreptozyme
apoobsidian
auroville
backward recovery
baily's
baseball device
Biflocin
billiard block
Bridges,Robert Seymour
Bykovka
calibration by water
callistomyia pavonina
Camaldolite
commandment
convergescence
cross it
Davisson, Clinton Joseph
demethoxymatteucinol
dephlegmations
dermott
design failure
direct extraneous modulation
dutchmanspipe root
Esterel
evolutionary changes
flood tide depression
fossil DNA
fuel oil supply regulating
furnishings
genus Okapia
germanium(ii) imide
glacial cosmogony
grande culture
hair shirt
Haro-Herbig object
hemochromogen
hepta-cable
hex head wrench
high temperature investment
hulayfa (hulayfah)
hypecoum leptocarpum hook.f. et thomas
individual token
inertial classification
internodium
isostatic reduction
king pairs
kismayo
Koch's phenomenon
lamb's
large settlement
li-ning
low-grade polymer
lusive
manquell
manufacturing expense in process account
mark-sense punch
marschland
meaning-makers
melih
mestizas
metabolons
mild cough
moharrams
Monte Lindo, R.
Montemuro, Sa.de
nontextual
open order summary
opp.
ouvrages
ovenbird
parts catalogue
physics-related
pincel
pocket of gas
racking bond
reciprocity of benefits
reelship
regenerated roof
rejectionism
separator table
serial
silicofluoric acid
stick like a bur
stored-energy operating mechanism
sulfimines
summer on loadline
synthesis problem
tax-paid cost
theorical
thioxanthen-9-one
tiger snakes
tlbial plateau
universal covering group
whale in kiln colour