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. 


1. The White House is calling a new inquiry 1 into former national security advisor 2 Michael Flynn "Appropriate". The pentagon's acting 3 inspector 4 general is investigating payments received by Flynn from Russia's state sponsored RT television network, as well as a Turkish-owned company linked to Turkey's government. 


2. The senior navy commander overseeing Pacific military operations says North Korea's crisis is at the worst point he's ever seen. Admiral Harry 5 Harris Jr. told the senate armed service committee he has no doubt Pyongyang intends to develop a nuclear missile capable of striking the U.S. 


3. Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau applauded president Trump 6's announcement that he will not immediately pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, as originally promised. Trudeau said he and Trump had a "Good conversation about the issue Wednesday night". 


4. And the penguin 7 colony at the London zoo has two new editions. The baby birds were hatched last week, one chick on Easter Monday, followed two days later by its sibling 8.   


Kelly Daschle,  the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 inquiry
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
2 advisor
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
3 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
4 inspector
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
5 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。
6 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。
7 penguin
n.企鹅
  • The penguin is a flightless bird.企鹅是一种不会飞的鸟。
  • He walked with an awkward gait like a penguin.他走路的步子难看得就像企鹅。
8 sibling
n.同胞手足(指兄、弟、姐或妹)
  • Many of us hate living in the shadows of a more successful sibling.我们很多人都讨厌活在更为成功的手足的阴影下。
  • Sibling ravalry has been common in this family.这个家里,兄弟姊妹之间的矛盾很平常。
学英语单词
adiabatic recompression
anglo-catholicisms
as tough as leather
assembly technique
base-stripped emulsion
belet uen (beledweyne)
biblically
bipolar-cmos transistors
blocked off
body-centred lattice
borsal
bulk-oil circuit-breaker
Bunn
bya
card vote
coal blind
compression algorithm
copromotions
core rod straightening machine
cottrell precipitators
culmy
Deadwood Res.
demlbilize
distastefulness
earth-nut oil
electron inertia
errr
ethinazone
field adsorption
fire support group
flat wart
food container
fortuitous event
frighten sb. into doing sth.
full mature relief
fused melt
Gastrochilus calceolaris
glass bending machine
glue operation
gold dust
hardbody
head strap
heindel
herry furnace
inclined joint pouring
income tax on foreign company
inferior trunk
information computer system
initial injection
isallobaric minimum
jet-pipe thermometer
joakims
Juniperus rigida
Kirkjubær
lead in
lettinga
lmna
malateaspartate cycle
male
marine dermatitis eruption
motorhead
nonautomatic rectifier
octalupine
order things by means of an indent
out of measure
overall height of crane
pelletized fertilizer
perniciable
phyllocoptes multilinea
point pour
precedable
primuloides
Puerto Villazón
pvep
pyriform lobe
Queen Elizabeth II
radiological protection
real-time filtering
reduced coordinates
retardation rocket
retarded eruption
RTFS
saprophage
Schokalsky Bay
Scleria tessellata
scrobiculus variolae
secondaire
shock transmission
shortwall
slavonski
soundwave
soup spoon
spike filtering
status queue
steam cultivator
takeout financing
testing unit
transient boiling range
Trichodinella
unpasteurized soy sauce
white senega
xyvisions