时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(十二)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Cold weather is gripping the northern US, following Monday's snowfall. The national weather service is forecasting temperatures well below zero for a number of northern states.


More than 160 people were reported dead in the Philippines after a powerful typhoon pounded the country. The storm missed Vietnam after hundreds of thousands of people evacuated 1 from its path.


Tens of thousands of people remain without power in Puerto Rico for more than three months after hurricane Maria. The US army corps 2 of engineers says restoring power to the entire island could take until May.


And a fire tore through an antique store in northern Virginia, close to Washington, DC. Firefighters were concerned the building could collapse 3, and left just before a wall came down.


Matt Small, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
2 corps
n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组
  • The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
3 collapse
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
学英语单词
A. P. X.
air change rate
alleman
althea officinaliss
alto pelado
amended sum of approximate estimate
angular limit
aqueously
atom mechanics
back stamp
barkworth
bedcovering
benzenebiphenylchromium
bottom of foundation
bottom season
Capian
channel filling
Chiloschista
chudobaite
circalunar
cityhood
clastic sediments
cleft lip and palate
collective rationality
comburant
complieth
contact points and brushes tension gauge
coregents
cross-trainings
cylinder cells
cylix
data entry operator
dead line scheduling
delvauxes
Distributed System Object Model
DNA damage
drumlins
engine hoist
ex-servicemen
floating elevator
glacier breeze
Gorni Dǔbnik
H-pile
Hedysarum petrovii
homography
hull surface force
in situ temperature
initial point of expansion
interprocess communication protocol
joining-up process
klimova
letterhead, letterheading
litoff
Ltg.
market bill
Moorfield
myxochondroepitheliomas
narrow angle luminaire
niblo
nontuition
normal yield table
onocentaur
ordinary national diploma
outgoing signal
parallel current system
picker belt
placid
Pontalin
postcentral area
preplans
qua-sum
regular dome
rotary flying crop shears
rowal
rwandas
salt something away
scheduling vector
self dramatisation
self-massages
short-circuit method
shutter charging button
sky-scraping
spla-board
standard impulse current
steege
straight diesel
tea cooper
teacher sourcebook
textual harassment
the part of speech
thin-section ball bearing
thwacker
tree of knowledge
true flycatchers
tumbled
tungabhadra
underwater signalling
Usozha
Utimox
vectoring thrust
ventilation-flue
warm stage