时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(二)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Stock market in Asia took a beating on Tuesday following the massive drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The slump 1 began Friday as investors 2 worried about higher inflation.


Vice 3 President Mike Pence isn't ruling out of meeting with North Korean officials while at the Winter Olympics in South Korea. Pence visited a missile defense 4 site in Alaska while on his way to South Korea.


Sheriff's deputy were shot and killed in Colorado Springs on Monday while investigating a stolen vehicle. Two more deputies, a police officer and a civilian 5 were wounded. The suspect was killed.


The House Intelligence Committee voted to release a democratic memo 6 on the Russia investigation 7. It's a response to a republican version, which claims the FBI and Justice Department abused their power while seeking to monitor all one-time Trump 8's associates. President Trump makes the final decision on whether to release it.


Mike Brown is at the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 slump
n.暴跌,意气消沉,(土地)下沉;vi.猛然掉落,坍塌,大幅度下跌
  • She is in a slump in her career.她处在事业的低谷。
  • Economists are forecasting a slump.经济学家们预言将发生经济衰退。
2 investors
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
3 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
4 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
5 civilian
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
  • There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
  • He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
6 memo
n.照会,备忘录;便笺;通知书;规章
  • Do you want me to send the memo out?您要我把这份备忘录分发出去吗?
  • Can you type a memo for me?您能帮我打一份备忘录吗?
7 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。
8 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。
学英语单词
African holly
android
archdioceses
aroints
assia
auntness
autoregressive distributed lag model (ardl model)
Balarampur
basement lineation
Beep-Pager
bell-metal ore (stannite)
bizman
body of rod
Botomovu
chitinous
chloracetophenone poisoning
cittas
Coerney
colic biliary
concrete finishing machine
consular certification
cuscuta of the beet
diacaryophase
dual-permeability system
entification
epoxy ethane fumigation
family phalacrocoracidaes
fellness
furballs
fusiform colony
gabbro-granite
got away with
Gwegyi
half-word block
hand coding
handshoes
harrod-domar growth model
Heeswijk
Hemobartonella
Henleyville
hhcy
historical phenomenon
infinite term
iron sekaninaite
ITD (initial temperature difference)
Itrabo
kafir corns
kelosomus
Laffite, Jean
landolfo
lift winch
linolic acids
live cable test cap
low speed morse
lucilia
main orbit
manis javanica
match-girls
maximum velocity ratio
minimum-wage
mixed-settler extractor
montier
nose of wing
not hay
oblique lighting
occassional shower
ochre suppressor
open spaces
osteosis eburnisans monomelica
paracladura flavoides
pecorino
peep-shows
perigee
pituitary bodies
placental chorionic gonadotropin
porcus
pragmatics
pretexte
protalbumose
Pv.
re-imaging
reasonably priced
register, index
rubber slat mud conveyer
safety remote control equipment
saltsplitting capacity
scheme of finite type
secohmmeter
selection by failure
septaria porcellana
shit-brindle
soft rock
Sorbus pohuashanensis Hedl.
tooth gap angle
trigger triode
truxillines
unit pipe system
viride
wapper
well-guided
wire tying machine
wurtman