时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(七)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Authorities say a women killed when a house in Omaha exploded was a property inspector 1 sent to check its condition after a tenant 2 was evicted 3. The explosion leveled the house and heavily damaged 4 adjacent homes.


About 400 firefighters battled a forest fire in Spain on Tuesday. The flames flared 4 overnight fueled by high temperatures and strong winds on a nearby farm.


The Solar Impluse II plane has landed in Abu Dhabi more than a year after its initial take off completing the first round-the-world flight to be powered solely 5 by the sun's energy. The plane made 16 stops including India, China, the US, Italy and Egypt.


And Cuba marked the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Thousands waved Cuban flags as this year's commemoration was dedicated 6 to former president Fidel Castro who is turning 90 in August.


Emily Roseman, Associated Press with AP News Minute. 



1 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。
2 tenant
n.承租人;房客;佃户;v.租借,租用
  • The tenant was dispossessed for not paying his rent.那名房客因未付房租而被赶走。
  • The tenant is responsible for all repairs to the building.租户负责对房屋的所有修理。
3 evicted
v.(依法从房屋里或土地上)驱逐,赶出( evict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 许多房客因不付房租被赶了出来。
  • They had evicted their tenants for non-payment of rent. 他们赶走了未交房租的房客。
4 Flared
adv.仅仅,唯一地
  • Success should not be measured solely by educational achievement.成功与否不应只用学业成绩来衡量。
  • The town depends almost solely on the tourist trade.这座城市几乎完全靠旅游业维持。
5 dedicated
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
学英语单词
a one-eyed monster
Akiharu
Ameritards
amplification system
atn
auxiliary protection
background application
barrel-chested
basket cell
billi-cycle
captain's declaration
Cartier, Jacques
cauls
chicken stew
clearance nut
clipped roe fish
concentration of carbon
Corliss valve
cortancyl
curvatura gastrica major
device service routine
diffused optical waveguide
doras
double-lined
drilling-in completion fluid
drop safes
easi (estimate of adversary sequence interruption)
enarthromyces indicus
ethyl-magnesium-halide
exemplify to be
exportations
fig trees
flip phone
foscarini
gain band width product
genus tineas
geosynclinal system
go smash
guy friends
hangingwall
heald knitter
hornsland
in any term
inductive sawtooth generator
know better than
landing party
less-than-container load
licity
lifting force
long swing
long term memory
Longicil
look somebody up
low and intermediate tensile strength
lyngbya majuscula
madders
made demands on
main aisle
mana-weaves
merket
mersion
metallurgy research
metasedimentayr rock
mild pressing along meridian course
Modacor
molecularist
multi-tubing wellhead
mylopharyngeal
nayna
night after night
One Fathom Bank
out for blood
paraskevidekatriaphobia
pcusa
perthiocyanic acid
pneumatic conveyer with pressure
pregls
prevention of blindness
protrudin
quasi sine-wave
replacement evaluation
ring porous wood
riverplains
row lock cover
sea suction valve
shipment on order
Stradbroke Island
strap-wound winding
subbed out
subtropical fruit
super-expensive
synchronized wave
TD (tunnel diode)
thought to one
top-selling
urban land
Vaccinium arboreum
verrucous pyoderma
volatile combustible
wincies
Yahve
Zoanthus