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
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
air defense array radar
algate, algates
anselmo
artique
augmented objective function
automatic phase control circuit
backwash marks
bamboo raft
birdsits
Blackwoodian
Bodoni, Giambattista
bush poppy
Cacchione
CCProxy
chorizantes (germany)
chrome plated piston ring
commingled bits
component of acceleration
conjugative effect
Conservative Judaism
cough oneself hoarse
cousinage
Delaine Merino
diacetylmonoxime
disconcerted
dominus litis
double-heart wood
editrices
electric car shed
electrode boundary layer
English Renaissance architecture
Errill
etoformin
field crop cultivating
fologenon
foredawn
fractionated
Fredholm integral equation of the third kind
frigidities
full-qualified name
gives back
Glochidion zeylanicum
gravitational microlens
ground control center
Gwangju
heated bar
heparin pump
hexagon socket
hydride crack
hyponanosoma
individual style
ineffective thrombopoiesis
initial state equation
jobfish
kountze
leone mount
linkage map
load up with
magnetocapacitive
main system of underground mine dispatching communication
marimba gongs
meatuss
MEDSUPDEP
minimum loss clause
model photonuclear reaction
non-commutability
nounoun pronoun
personators
point welding
portable compression chamber
position detection method
pre-examine
put a stop to
putting to bed
Reymont, Wladystaw Stanistaw
second-
seepage basin
shumba
shunt leads
single-point thread tool
Sinjido
situhybridization
soakerhoses
sock cymbal
Sphaerophorus globosus
sweetbay magnolias
swigman
test deck
three states of coupler operation
triatomes
tRNA isoacceptor
Turquino, R.
umbilical emphysema
unadjusted data
unanimities
uninductive
variola virus
Vasilkov
working set swapping
ziofascism
ziplessness