时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


President Donald Trump 1 is decertifying the Iran nuclear deal, calling on Congress to fix it and threatening to pull out completely. But his announcement is drawing push-back from Europe and Iran, where leaders in both regions say they are sticking by the accord.


Firefighters are making progress in the battling wildfires in the heart of California's wine country, but it continues to be tough-going. Authorities say the fire in Napa and Sonoma Counties is 22% contained, but the loses are tremendous -- more than 30 people dead, and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed.


Authorities in Las Vegas say the gunman in last week's massacre 2 meant to strike aviation fuel tanks at the city's international airport when he fired on thousands attending a country music concert. The motive 3 remains 4 a mystery. Authorities say 45 victims were still hospitalized, with some in critical condition.


After being wiped out in New England in the 1800s, wild turkeys are staging a big comeback. Public complaints have been surging with residents in Boston saying the birds are damaging cars, destroying gardens, even attacking people.


Ned Barker, 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 massacre
n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中,这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀,大屠杀就有可能再次发生!
3 motive
n.动机,目的;adv.发动的,运动的
  • The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
4 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
acknowledgement of receipt
Algier alloy
Anopheles pseudopunctipennis pseudopunctipennis
aplastic crisis
avipoxvirus fowlpox
axially space air-gap
behavioral jurisprudence
bordertown
bossmanship
Bruchlayer
bunkie station
car bit
churkins
clinker-built boat
coefficient of non-uniformity of operating velocity of machinery
communist-led
conus cinereus
correction factor for pressure
cosie
cross-regression
ct test
cycle, duty
data spill
Dictyospongiidae
divorce a mensa et thoro
earth-type
Enq, enquiry.
ESD type boiler
ex-Scientologists
f.i.p.
fibrocytes
Fick's bacillus
first-class honours degrees
fly wheel rib
foreign seed
formosan greater horseshoe bat
frost gravimeter
funiculus umbilicalis
half band width
hunchs
image transfer converter
integral linear mapping
interferometric radiometer
Interp.
intreasured
izett steel
Jack.
kiloampere
Laurocerasus andersonii
manual override
mcgilligan
metamorphopsias
metatroch
Modern Times
Monakow's tract
monocaryotic phase
mortarium
Mount Davis
muricola nipponica
no questions asked
normally closed (hydraulic)
organic molecule
orthopsia
overcontrolling
Pacaembu
parallel-axis theorem
paraquedact
partnerings
paviers
Pelargonium roseum Ait.
petroleum chemical plant
phone receiver
picking us up
pido
pit broker
potpourris
powerbrake
public-integrity
real-balances
refreshable braille display
resistordivider
Rider Clause on Bill of Lading
roll cell
rotor model
russian-language
Salix fedtschenkoi
Savo-Finnish
scintillation pulse
scleral discoloration
scleroses
Serpa Pinto
shinkin
showperson
sleeping hibiscus
sufficiency condition
sulcus marginalis
sulitjelma
teef
the largest particles
thrillseeker
walsh sequential spectrum