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
aboveboard
absorption line width
access chamber
acid-soluble substance
acute miliary tuberculosis
aldesulfone sodium
Altranft
analytical plotter
apiole
arbitrator referee
blunted spur
Brabant
cam holder
Canadian-American Challenge Cup
capital inflow
cephalic hypochorda
Cheshmeh Soleymān
chuan ku wu
come at the truth
commutator-bar
crankcase cover
critical relative humidity
decimal carry
dehydrolyzing agent
delayed payments
Deux-Rivieres
diffusion of light
direct course made good
disgospel
double glide
Dryburgh
emonopride
empyemic
enamel double-cotton covered wire
escandon
establish market
flat waser nuts
flattens
foredooming
gaffneys
gave it a try
geostrophic flow
gimondo
government revenue collecting offices
grid ratio
helminthosporol
high-speed grinding
hold down mechanism
hushzone
impotence, impotency
isobacteriochlorin
jelletite
jollify
judicial chauvinism
jump drive
kosal
krampf
lesguft academy
listwanite(listvenite)
litter bins
membrane electric current
mixed surd
mtafu
multifetal
Muriae
neutron transport
nonsuperimposable
Omatako
paid the bills
parasitic volcano
Penirazina
philosophical analysis
pressed-glass
quartz ankerite rock
rale indux
ratafia biscuit
reserve a berth
resorbs
root bridge
scoliopleura tumida
sectional wire
sector-field direction focusing
sharp turn
Slavyanovo
source statement field
stagger bushes
statement identifier
steam calorimeter
sulphydrate
teenage dream
testing device
throning
timgads
turbulence broadening
ultramafite
urinous infiltration
urolas
warming liver for dispelling cold
Watowato, Bukit
way of thinking
wish sb ill
Yelabuzhskiy Rayon