时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(九)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. Bill Cosby was back in court for a hearing in his felony sexual assault case. His lawyers are hoping to suppress several days of testimony 1 Cosby in the accuser's lawsuit 2 a decade ago, as well as a secretly recorded  2005 phone call Cosby had with the mother of his accuser. 


2. Hurricane Newton slammed into the twin resorts of Los Cabos, on the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. The storm knocked out power in some places and stranded 3 tourists huddled 4 in their hotels. 


3.  British Airways 6 travellers are suffering delays globally due to a computer glitch 7 in the check-in systems. This comes a month after U.S carrier Delta 8 Airline suffered a global outage that caused it to cancel 23,00 flights, costing it $100 millions in lost revenue. 


4. A bar in Dubai broke the Guinness world record for the longest domino drop shot. The Huddle 5 Sports Bar and Grill 9 successfully 'dropped' 4,578 glasses of whiskey into energy drink. 


Matthew Burgoyne, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



n.证词;见证,证明
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
n.诉讼,控诉
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
挤在一起(huddle的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
  • We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。
vi.挤作一团;蜷缩;vt.聚集;n.挤在一起的人
  • They like living in a huddle.他们喜欢杂居在一起。
  • The cold wind made the boy huddle inside his coat.寒风使这个男孩卷缩在他的外衣里。
航空公司
  • The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways. 越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机。
  • At one point the company bought from Nippon Airways a 727 jet. 有一次公司从日本航空公司买了一架727型喷气机。
n.干扰;误操作,小故障
  • There is a glitch in the computer program somewhere.这个计算机程序中的某个部分有点小问题。
  • It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine.可能只是一个小故障,重新启动主机就能解决了。
n.(流的)角洲
  • He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
  • The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔,形成了一个三角洲。
n.烤架,铁格子,烤肉;v.烧,烤,严加盘问
  • Put it under the grill for a minute to brown the top.放在烤架下烤一分钟把上面烤成金黄色。
  • I'll grill you some mutton.我来给你烤一些羊肉吃。
学英语单词
ABCS (automatic broadcasting control system)
anterioposterior and lateral film
Arameans
arctostaphylos uva-ursis
Ardbeg
as nutty as fruitcake
Bar-Biting
bechamels
body construction
bucking coil loudspeaker
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Carex tangiana
case of symmetry
cast-iron frame
chassis and cab kerb mass
co2-silicate process
control system flow charting
country of source of tourists
debaid
delamater
dementating
dentine papillae
Douchebaguette
drayhorses
earth simulator
eolian deposit
essiac
experimental digital television encoder
explosive cyclogeneses
feel an objection to
gar free
guttman scaling technique
Heising modulation
heteropolar field magnet
HII region
hold power
holla back girl
hump point machine
Iditarod Trail
imidazolethylamine
incidental causal relationship
international film and television festival of new york
ion-sound speed
irampanel
islandless
knight-errantship
know full well
kueichoulin formation
La Fouillade
limited pelite member
longitudinal moment of inertia
Lophodon
manganese sulphate
marmarization (marmorization)
maternity and child welfare
melogenic
mercury arc oscillator
modern-rock
Mogaung
Mount Magnet
multichambered
myse
north america nebula
off saw size
one-sevenths
open primary
out of phase component life
pasteurisation
pneumatic tools
policy stakeholder
prattling
proof spirit
prophage
pyknoepilepsy
radio paging
Raiwind
renal ducts
reservoir engineering
resonance cavity
screen grid tube
seeker antenna
septorhinoplasty
set point variation
shell and tube type floating head heat exchanger
signalling equipment
ski pair
slab copper
smell ya
spiral tracheid
stephanoum
stochastic model
student-visa
successive time-share run
super calendered woodfree printing paper
tail fish
there has been many a peck of salt eaten since
triphenylamines
unpillared
vary colors by point
wildings
yewys
Zusmarshausen