时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia to meet with that country's king. He is there to discuss the disappearance 1 and alleged 2 killing 3 of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.


People in the Florida panhandle are still trying to track down friends and loved ones after hurricane Michael.


Authorities south of Nashville say a mother and 4 children were found dead in a home. The county sheriff says there is no reason to believe that any suspects are at large.


Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The 65-year-old Allen was a billionaire philanthropist, technology investor 4 and owned several sports teams.



1 disappearance
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
2 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
3 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
4 investor
n.投资者,投资人
  • My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
  • The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。
学英语单词
Aalenian Age
acidamide
agricultural cooperatives
anti-felting agent
architecturally
artbond
auxiliary tone
balanced phase
beechgroves
birth date
bleomycinamide
caytef
chest resonance
circulation fund
coarse rod
compensated chamber
compound-nucleus theory
comprehensive study
confined space
Culebra Island
cup square neck bolt
current cost of funds
cyclin-dependent kinase
cytuloplasm
dalton's alloys
dative sickness
definition by mathematical induction
deproteinated
deuteropathy
dicranum majus
dilaniate
disincrease
division box
droopings
Ebermannsdorf
emargination
Errogie
feel around
feigen
fiddleleafs
filter-type sound absorber
Fire-patrol
fontenays
food spoilage
foot step fastening angle
forest horse
frontolyzing
Galūgāh, Kūh-e
get your teeth into sth
glass tile
Gleit-schwerthobel
gnosticises
headcounts
helde
high-power modulation
Hoogezand
hunting-lodges
imprudences
jovian
Julia Domna
kernel of Carleman type
local planning authority
Loteae
matatabiol
maximal submodule
microgravity experiment satellite
motor meter
nondimensional number
nonpneumatic
Ogawa-mura
opening ceremonies
Periscelidae
photogeological
pioneer species
propulsive cathode
PureVideo
reduced cubic equation
relay gear
Roanoke Island
ropical Pacific air mass
schowalter
shifting backstay
sicklying
signorship
single-cycle natural-circulation boiling water reactor
spectral radiance factor
split collet
steaming out line
stretching strain
symmetrical diagram
system response
thermoscopic
upperarm
vacuum control
ventnor
virtual pitch circle
visible light detector
Walden, Pond
wheel-mounted sprayer
wired hose
wrappery