时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(八)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1.  There has been another shakeup in the Trump 1's campaign. Republican presidential nominee 2 Donald Trump hired Stephen Bannon of Brietbart news as CEO and named Pollster Kellyanne Conway campaign manager. The move comes just 82 days before the election. 


2. More than 80,000 residents are under evacuation warning as a massive wildfire east of Los Angles advanced on thousands of homes. The fire erupted Tuesday and spread quickly, fueled by hot weather and drought-stricken terrain 3


3. More than 500 passengers have been evacuated 4 after a small fire erupted on a cruise ship, about miles off Puerto Rico's north coast. The fire was still burning aboard the Caribbean fantasy as coast guards began bringing passengers ashore 5. There were reported fatalities 6


4. And underwater explorers announced Wednesday they discovered the second oldest confirmed ship wreckage 7 in the Great Lakes. The Washington- an American built, Canadian-own sloop 8 sank in Lake Ontario in 1803. 


Kelly Daschle, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
3 terrain
n.地面,地形,地图
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • He knows the terrain of this locality like the back of his hand.他对这一带的地形了如指掌。
4 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。
5 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
6 fatalities
n.恶性事故( fatality的名词复数 );死亡;致命性;命运
  • Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤,但没有人死亡。
  • The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 wreckage
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
8 sloop
n.单桅帆船
  • They heeled the sloop well over,skimming it along to windward.他们使单桅小船倾斜适当,让它顶着风向前滑去。
  • While a sloop always has two sails,a cat-rigged boat generally has only one.一艘单桅帆船总是有两面帆,但一艘单桅艇通常只有一面帆。
学英语单词
'Aïn Rich
4-bromoestradiol
actionlike
animal hospital
antenna circuit
antimasques
armilustrum
beastings
beaverroot
biling
biomiocroscopy
bog iron
carved and inlaid ware
chemically bonded moiety
chronologist
closed loop estimation
collection limitation principle
coping skills
Coq.
cornier
corsinia marchantioides raddi
counter-fessed
cyclobutadipyridine
dance cards
deaf ears
deep pie
degrading effect
desires to know
destruin
diallylurea
dryness pathogen
ebullioscopic constant
filmscript
floracarus biserratae
genus amberboas
genus Clethra
genus Phlomis
glanded pump
graph informatoin retrieval language
Grombalia
harush
head office current account
high-pressure center
immediate addressing mode
in strong heart
incasing cell
inelastic removal cross section
interventionalist
kill switch
kmaite
lamen
lock stepper
Mirandaed
monitoring lead
moral curriculum
mucronation
niece-in-law
nitroglycerol
non-decomposable matrix
nonliquid
novellae
over-red
palidia
Paradisaeidae
pechsteins
peptotoxine
Pere Marquette R.
picks-off
Pipile
Pocomoke Sound
pointer field
price growth per cent
primary tea
program error control
prudence
Radew
raptorial feeders
read-out tube
remodelling
Roger's test
schygulla
seroepizootiology
shot
shutdown mechanism
slow-sinking
spring-type self-starter
steel reactor
Stella Niagara
straight axle
sulfogen green
table pack
tall organization
tank cover skirt
thermistor compensation
tractus lemnisci lateralis (acustici)
Urispadol
Vallergan
Vasoflo
waress
West Nile encephalitis virus
winch-rope reel
xan