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
Abelin's reacytion
Acer caudatifolium
advantage gen
alternating-current motor
apex cornus posterioris medullae spinalis
beresitization
Bergumermeer
Birket Fatmé
biventer
californians
carlots
cavernosus
chance packing
counterwait
customary's account
decoding rule
delayed neutron damping
drug-delivery
dunnage
endres
fewnesses
fill plate
flat counter
folded antenna
fore-paw
formbuilding
fossil-fuel(l)ed power station
Georgi Zhukov
goatwater
grand vitesse
gullfoss (golden falls)
hardly...than...
hd-tv
hemiretina
Hickory Plains
hydrogen arc lamp
ilusha
in fornt
independent binomial experiments
indirect staining
infrared remote sensing system
juneating
kalala
kaziss
laser spectrometer
Lutenlin
m/d
Malibu board
manation
marriage vow
menjangan
moonlighter
moses ranklike dispersion test
moving scale
multi person decision making
Mvengué
nigrous
outframes
parameter position
pause edit
paxil
piss into the wind
pneumocystiss
positive symmetric operator
positive-ray analysis
professor ate
prominence of lateral semicircular canal
pronetalol
radiotelephone distress frequency watch receiver
Raesfeld
railway turbine
rhythmic stratification
Rio Marina
sappression
sealing water pipe connection
shearson
significates
SLPLK
solvated metal atom impregnation
Spiroplatinum
Station Commander
strikebreaker
submerged soils
sucks
support-rig downhole drill
sustained overvoltage
synthetic protein
talk someone's ear off
tanelli
trident polymorphic engine
tropical abscess
turn somebody on
two-spotted spider mite
udalric
vapor decomposition
variable speed gear
virginalling
wall scattering
wedge slit
whoremistress
zambombas
zinc-plating brightener