美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2017-06-12
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2017(六)月
This is AP news minute.
1. President Donald Trump 1 says that thanks to him, U.S infrastructure 2 will once again be the envy of the world. Trump has been promoting the plans to bolster 3 the country's roads, bridges and waterways in what his aids had dubbed 4 "Infrastructure week". But former FBI director James Comey's testimony 5 about his interactions with Trump and Russian interference in the U.S election has dominated the news .
2. Britain's prime minister Teresa May will leave her most senior cabinet team in place after her general election gamble backfired disastrously 6. May plans to work with North Ireland's democratic Unionist party to master a voting majority.
3. One person is hospitalized following a hot air balloon crash in Chatsworth, Illinois according to ambulance service. Two balloons went down in near Chatsworth Grade School.
4. Authorities say a Florida man is facing criminal mischief 7 charge after he got out of his car after crash ,stripped off his clothes and damaged a door of a responding deputy's patrol car.
Tracy Brown, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.
- 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。
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。
- The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.高利率使经济更稳健。
- He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。
- Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
- Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
- He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
- Their profits began to spiral down disastrously. 他们的利润开始螺旋形地急剧下降。
- The fit between the country's information needs and its information media has become disastrously disjointed. 全国的信息需求与信息传播媒介之间的配置，出现了严重的不协调。