时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(十)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute.


1. Armed soldiers and military Humvees moved in Tuesday to remove protesters who are campaigning on private lands to block the construction of the Dakota access pipeline 1 in North Dakota. Protesters set a small fire and built blocks but majority retreated from confrontation 2.


2. Official in central Italy began to assess the damage caused by a pair of strong earthquakes in the same region hit by a deadly quake in August. Meanwhile, authorities scrambled 3 to find housing for thousands of displaced residents.


3. Twitter is cutting about 9% of its employees worldwide and killing 4 off Vine, its mobile app where people share short video clips. Twitter has failed to keep pace with rivals Facebook, Snapshot and Instagram in recent months.


4. And the National Weather Service says snow began following Thursday in parts of Connecticut and is expected in Massachusetts as well. Commuters shouldn't worry, however the first snow of the season isn't expect to accumulate, because the ground is too warm.


Kelly Daschle, the Associated Press with AP news minute.



1 pipeline
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
2 confrontation
n.对抗,对峙,冲突
  • We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
  • After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后,他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。
3 scrambled
v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 );攀登;争夺;(军事飞机)紧急起飞
  • Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 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。
学英语单词
Acetylsulfamethoxazol
acromatic antenna
amethystinus
antivirus programs
aplace
Arafo
arrival runway
asterina cina berk.
automated statistical analysis programming
ball diabase
bank planting
bifocus lens
buoyant foundation
bushells
button plate
calcifying fibrous pseudotumor
Cavachon
cheap date
chlorocarbonylation
cliquey
cluster thinning
co-operation
Cocos I.
colloid bearer
commencement of fuel supply
computer-literates
corpse ticket
cue marks
desktop supercomputer
diet off
dolefulnesses
electribe
elephantinum
enterocholecystostomy
executive dump
extraterrestrial trajecory
Giemsa banding
gogyn
green video voltage
Hand that rocks the cradle
hapagin
horsemanship
housefather
interstitial pancreatitis
irrigatable
jackfurnace
kasamas
koopmans
landing force
loop phase locking
machine dictionary
management status
mechanophore
methyloxytocin
mild cures
mks unit
mossier
multiple unit train
multiterminal configuration
natural alloy
nonfoamy
notothyrial platform(pseudocruralium)
number format character
oleo-guaiacol
para-academic
particularised
Parvāreh
phycobiont
poorche
post extractor
postcreole
Pythagoric
recurrence distance
ring piston servomotor
self-alienations
self-lubricating property
semiconductor gas sensor
sheet carrier
shikonin
silently
silica-bearing material
slip agreement
soima
spatchcocked
square-root compensation
Squibb's rhubarb mixture
Stanford Bridge
stock record book
strap holder
superparticular number
syndoche
tenoch
three-pronged hoe
TRC (temperature record and control)
use pattern
vallation
voice controller
warm-white
waste steam pipe
Wedensky's phenomenon
Wilkmanite
word divider