时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(四)月


英语课

 


This is AP News Minute. 


France’s Interior Ministry 1 says far-right presidential candidate Marine 2 Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron are expected to advance to the May 7th runoff election. No mainstream 3 party candidate is advancing for the first time in modern French history. 


Iraqi officials say Islamic State militants 4 have attacked the police base in atown that is being used as a staging ground for the Mosul offensive, killing 5 at least one policeman. Local media report at least 2 suicide attackers entered the base before detonating explosives. 


US officials confirmed pirates have turned to the waters off Somalia. Defense 6 Secretary Jim Mattis spoke 7 to reporters briefly 8 during his visit to the African nation of Djibouti. Mattis was joined by the head of US-Africa command. 


Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry 9 cheered on thousands of London marathon runners from the sidelines of the race on Sunday. The runners were competing for Heads Together, the official charity of 2017 London Marathon. 


Krysta Fauria, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
2 marine
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • 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 mainstream
n.(思想或行为的)主流;adj.主流的
  • Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
  • Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。
4 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
5 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
6 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。
7 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
8 briefly
adv.简单地,简短地
  • I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
  • He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
9 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
学英语单词
-vorous
11-deoxyhydrocortisone
act of disposition
adhering semolina
alkylene polysulfide
aquatic animal ecology
arsenide hydrogen
ascites tumor
banksterism
black camp
blasting accessories
caelia
castigate
cause of cracking
choroid plexus of third ventricle
clear length
client-centered
colour-proud
control on nontrade transaction
corrant
Cuzorn
cybersupremacists
dead tank circuit breaker
denture balance
derail stop
development error
epitaphers
estimate drawing
family Sarcoptidae
Fast Acting Fuse
Feeding-cannal
fertilizer rate
first filter
Fitzroy Harb.
forerooms
freemanii
geno-neuro-dermatosis
get a broom in one's tail
gone without
great grandchildren
great inquest of the nation
heat-clearing drug
helving hammer
Hey's amputation
hippolyte
horizontal-columnar type hydraulic press
hury
hydrosme
Hyzaar
ices over
illegitimacies
inelastic region
injector spray tip
jamas
level table guide
make one's blood run cold
mensural notation
middle-side system
mistying
mountain ecosystems
mugwumps
necessary evils
Oas Mts.
octocorallian
octometer
oil-pressure indicator
on the road mixer
once-in-a-thousand-years
one stop shopping
phlean
photochemical equivalent law
physogs
plesiophthalmus mayumiae
polymorphids
potassium methylate
pre-logic
procedure in bankruptcy
pyramidals
resewed
rhinopharynx
rocker bar furnace
sailor blouse
satellite-based interceptor
sausage goods
sitting-rooms
spinning protein
stagnogleys
strike stop lever
strong-coupling theory
sublunars
subscenario
telephone communication units
toothed rail
UGPNS
verrucosity
viracocha
VMD
volt line
vv. vestibulares
webphones
wet discharge
zaw