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.


At least 17 people are known dead from Florida to Virginia in the aftermath of hurricane Michael. More than 300,000 homes and businesses remained without power in Florida and Georgia Sunday.


Retail 1 giant Sears has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 2 protection. The filing is expected to impact tens of thousands of workers.


International business leaders are pulling out of the upcoming investment forum 3 in Saudi Arabia. That country is dealing 4 with growing pressure after the disappearance 5 and suspected murder of Saudi Aribian journalist Jamal Khashoggi.


A pilot is dead after a small plane crashed into a home in Payson, Arizona. No injuries were reported on the ground. The cause of the crash is under investigation 6.



1 retail
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
2 bankruptcy
n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
3 forum
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
4 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
5 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。
6 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。
学英语单词
3-Amino-2-Chloropyridine
abirritates
abukir bays
Acheson, Dean Gooderham
age-grade table
alar foramens
Allen's treatment
angevine
anhydroleucovorin
apprizements
avarices
azans
Ban Sai
be distinct from
beta-gauging technique
bile salt broth
bitmaps
boucasin
brocale
cedrate fruits
chlamys hastata
Clinge
coeducations
compact colony-forming active substance
compression seals
creatinine kinase (ck)
Cynomyia
death
Deutzia discolor
dis-obey
diwan
double-precision constant
Dramyl
electro-tinplate
eloquential
emergency speed variation
ex-soldiers
Fahlun brilliant alloy
fortune-tellings
front runner
fuliginous
genus buxuss
geometric simulation
getter action
go round the house
head rotor
high temperature visco meter
homogeneous arc
hoyin
hypsibrachycephalism
inner shafting
Kalmuck, Kalmuk
kurchatovite
lonchocarpols
made a fuss of
make a mistake in
mare liberums
mechanical water shut off
mechanized work gang
mega-retailer
murmurings
Nation R.
negalokaryocyte
non-mechanical noise
optic pedicle
orchichorea
panamanian capitals
pelamid
pennells
perineural fibroma
prefracture deformation
pulpiteer
puttings
radicalizing
read sb. a lecture
reparty
reuter's commodity index
RPCP (reinforced plastic composite pipe)
sekularac
selenates
she devil
Silencio, Pta.
skewed projection
skimping
sodium beryllium oxalate
Sodoma, Il
South Korean monetary unit
supermouse
supersigits
the transmitter with diode
thiopeptide
tracking camera
triazolams
tsaritza
tucet
tunechi
uta gaki (japan)
Veil Nebula(NGC 6992)
venews
vestibulocerebellar tract
wannier stark effect
yokai