时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(九)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Tensions continue to mount between Washington and Pyongyang as North Korea's foreign minister addressed the UN General Assembly, calling President Donald Trump 1 "a mentally deranged 2 person full of megalomania and complacency." Meanwhile, to show off force, the US sent B1 bombers 3 on a mission in international airspace just off the North Korean Coast.


A humanitarian 4 crisis is growing in Puerto Rico, following Hurricane Irma with towns left without fresh water, fuel, electricity or phone service.


A powerful new earthquake shook Mexico Saturday, causing more damage and fear in a country already reeling from two earthquakes this month that have killed some 400 people. The US Geological Survey said the new 6.1-magnitude quake occurred in the state of Oaxaca.


First Lady Melania Trump and Britain's Prince Harry 5 appeared together in Toronto ahead of Saturday's opening ceremonies of Prince Harry's Invictus Games for wounded warriors 6. The White House said it was Melania Trump's first solo trip outside of the US as first lady and her first time meeting Prince Harry.


Ned Barker, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 deranged
adj.疯狂的
  • Traffic was stopped by a deranged man shouting at the sky.一名狂叫的疯子阻塞了交通。
  • A deranged man shot and killed 14 people.一个精神失常的男子开枪打死了14人。
3 bombers
n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 );投弹手;安非他明胶囊;大麻叶香烟
  • Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 humanitarian
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
5 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
6 warriors
武士,勇士,战士( warrior的名词复数 )
  • I like reading the stories ofancient warriors. 我喜欢读有关古代武士的故事。
  • The warriors speared the man to death. 武士们把那个男子戳死了。
学英语单词
a penny for your thoughts
admirables
antistripping additive
aromatic polyhydrazide fiber
automatic carrier landing system
b.s.i.
beachbag
body-shell
brake apparatus
by contraries
bye election
byword
capital stock adjustment principle
carrier telegraph terminal
cheik
chlor-triammine platinous chloride
COBOL application
confessorial
conical-point rivet
copper dish gum
curmudgeons
dimension text
doublereaction
electronic slip measuring device
epistles of paul the apostle to the ephesians
exponential quantity
first marquess cornwalliss
get into the way
glossatorial
guglers
harbor master
hemeralopic
high availability large database
high-order predicate calculus
integrated graphics
internal diseconomies of production
interrogator-responsor
inverse sar (isar)
isentropic procedure
juxtagranular
kerrygold
kongboensis
kthxbi
lime-silicate hornfels
loughley
lucic
man of means
market forecasting
marsupial mole
mass of foundation
metallic pickup
millfield
misopedias
mopies
Morgan, John Pierpont, Jr.
multiclutch limited-slip differential
n-evaluation problem
numeric key
overharvests
pachy
paraptosis
paraskevopoulos
preferred credit
pseudocoelom
pump total head
Puzhou
rabbito
reactor building vacuum breaker
regression interpolation
Royal Copenhagen porcelain
Rānī Jot
saurimo (henrique de carvalho)
scattered wave
sell me out
sextillion
shot hole of peach
shtreimel
siphonoglyphs
slag tags
slave breaker
small-world networks
speed switch
spongy membrane
stamp box
stitch sth together
subzonal layer
sylphon bellowss
temperature field
tenessees
terracottas
toileth
tomocystogram
towered over
ugrics
uniform boundedness theorems
vanadium(v) hydroxide
video frame store
voltage build-up rate
wood-sheds
wristwatch radio
zero-buoyancy
zhemchuzhnikovite