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
accreased
acute respiratory failure
advice of authority to pay
aftercoming head
agremonine
airscrew hub
alluvial channel
American craneberrybush
areche
article generation
artificial compost
ballast trim
barometric disturbance
carpencloth
chittamwood
collecting conveyor
colocdyspepsia
condensed milk flavour
crop residue management
D antiscorbutic vitamin
decimeter tube
decision of court
detail logic diagram
double aperture seal
down draught porducer
dunums
Dycloninum
electric elevator
elevator gear reducer box
end point control
experimental surgery
FAMME
fault modes and effect analysis
fire the whole nation with enthusiasm
Fonseca, Gulf of
frequency switching
Gedrosia
globigerina type
grammatical inference by induction
gravity abutment of arch dam
heterogeneous flow
horizontal bars
horizontal control network
human factors society
humoes
hygromas
iextended range floating point interpretive system
in-fighting
intesinal tympanites
ischiotrochantericus muscle
kicksorters
klesert
lalopathy
loop plan
maestra
magnetic iron oxide red
master plot plan
mean fraction of losses
momie weave
morrells
nafis
package counter
Parbenyl
Parotid-Masseteric
pericorneal
phosphodiester bond
pirkl
poiyarthritis rheumatica acuta
Pope Alexander VI
Port Canning
preamplifier filter
preheating furnace fan
radioassayed
reactor output
regeneration of used oil
result function
riveting in rows
sacral crest
selectnet
self-efficacies
serverless computing
shift the blame on to someone
slateblue
snow park
spread spectrum transmission
squirearch
straddle mounted type
stream of
structure isomerisola
subxerophilous primary forest
tailfirst
tanases
testamentum nuncupativum
to keep it real
twezers
two-variable
underlying colour
value of merchandise imports
velleity
winey
xxiier
Zionized