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
ac component(of noise)
ambient environment
Apoda
apulum (alba-iulia)
areal heterogeneity
Babinski sign
balance beam
banker's automated clearing service
Bartholomäberg
base of taxation
bedazing
bird of night
bright pink
bus capacity utilization rate
cocuswood
comes up with
cooktops
customs duty clause
demand for commodity
dirty complexion
disassortment
doghter
dominance system
double-current signalling
double-duct system
Echinomastus
electromagnetic energy accumulation type welder
electronegative
enclow
erica arboreas
firebow
flosi
forcing spindle
foreign exchange receipts
fragmentist
free honing
gated detector
globular actin
gonadial
guided missile armed destroyer
half-Maxwell lens
Hare B.
hemag(g)lutination
homa
Hoogersmilde
hopkins' bioclimatic law
independent sequence of partitions
infinite orthogonal group
internal conversion spectrometer
knuckle pin nut
Krukenberg
Laguna Indian Reservation
Lamb wave
landscape fractal dimension
lepolite
maid-children
maleic acid resin varnish
manganese(ii) dimetaphosphate
Maryland Co.
meteor-stream
microphotograpgic apparatus
midnight shift
midpoint tap
mind one's own business
Mlicrococcus gonorrhoeae
moratorium period
mullet l.
Neptunist
notch out override switch
oake
omatocia
out-door seasoning
palisade
pre consideration
preordered
prevailing
printing station
private value
psycharalysis
renie
reptilian
reweful
self-encloseds
shoplet
single pull hatch cover
Smilax astrosperma
sodium amidotrizoate
spatial audio
streamline pattern
strength grading of concrete
super gasket
survival knife
swallowing my pride
syco
tape relay center
uncopiable
Useneaceae
Vallet's mass
vertical planing machine
wave length-ship length ratio
Web usage mining
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