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.


Florida Governor Rick Scott says there is devastation 1 in the Keys and hopes everyone who stayed behind survived Irma. This comes after Scott flew over the area Monday and saw a lot of flood damage, overturned mobile homes and boats that had washed ashore 2.


Cuban state media is reporting 10 deaths following hurricane Irma despite the country's usually rigorous disaster preparations. More than a million were evacuated 3 from flood-prone areas as the storm pounded the island for two days.


President Donald Trump 4 marked the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by pledging to never ever forget the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives. In New York, the traditional commemoration ceremony began with a moment of silence at 8:46 am, in observance of the exact time the first hijacked 5 airplane struck the North Tower.


And some students in Houston, Texas are finally starting their new school year following a two-week delay because of the damage from hurricane Harvey. Another round of children will go back next Monday, starting off in a temporary school building until their severely 6 damaged one reopens at the end of September.


Suzanne Yee Gaffney, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 devastation
n.毁坏;荒废;极度震惊或悲伤
  • The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
  • There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
3 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
4 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。
5 hijacked
劫持( hijack的过去式和过去分词 ); 绑架; 拦路抢劫; 操纵(会议等,以推销自己的意图)
  • The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome. 飞机在从伦敦飞往罗马途中遭到两名持械男子劫持。
  • The plane was hijacked soon after it took off. 那架飞机起飞后不久被劫持了。
6 severely
adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地
  • He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
  • He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
学英语单词
a store of goods
Aeacus
anglo-celtic
apothecaries pound
archinephric canal
asymptotic relaxation length
aural elevator
autokinetic system
automatic computing machine
calcite compensation depth (ccd)
carriage of timber deck cargo
centers on
cistus albiduss
cleared water
controlled market
coupled longitudinal-torsional vibration
d'hotel
decurts
delete/write access
Dendropanax brevistylus
diffusional fractionation
dmec (dimethylol ethyl carbamate)
domesticise
egg shell paper
egg tempera
Eisensammeterz
ending character
equipment maintenance squadron
ethyl hydrogen sulfate
flatheads
frost-bites
genus corixas
getting behind
goniasterids
Gregor Mendel
ground-proximity extraction system (gpes)
guaiacene
heat-reflective coating
hydraulic efficiency propeller
hylobates pileatus
ILVE
in heaven's name
inductance filter
induction drive motor
inner-shell electrons
intercalary staphyloma
interframes
Irish-like
leper
list storage
loco poisoning
longueur
maintenance worker
make a match of it
Manhattanize
memory limit register
Meyronne
modified scissors truss
modulate to
morini
non-self-sustained wheel suspension
oau
Odivelas, Barragem de
out-of-door drying
oxodelavaine
paragraph ship
petroleum testing methods
photo-chemicalphotoconductor
picrasmas
policy issue
polyacrylic fiber
potion
prodom
puddingish
putnik
ricinoides
ring cyclide
Sandénia
sanfilippo's syndrome
scope of an operator
six-rowed barley
slurry exchanger
spacecraft
spirostichies
sporo-pollen
spotfaces
St-Lary-Soulan
stamineous
standidge
steelfounders
stenoxenous
time invariant system
total width ratio
triggered gaps
truth maintenance
vollyball
ware geese
wash leathers
wirewrap
woo'
you make me laugh
youthwort