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
affrontive
alibek
Allium caeruleum
anella
apocrinitis
baby bloomer
backhoe loader
batavia plan
blown flap
bound check
brachydodromous
Cloud server
collar finder
comfortss
community antenna television
complex normed space
conceptual art
conchocelis of porphyra
contraception by drugs
corona pulse analyzer
cylinder needle
daishonin
deep link
dislocation scattering mobility
distinction display apparatus
drug problem
electromechanical coupling
engaze
escape trace
evincibly
exchanger resin
false target jamming
falt bed cylinder press
family Ginkgoaceae
field terminal
field-upgradable
financial center
Garner, John Nance
gas-holder
Glechoma hederaceae
goas
grout-headed
hard at work
have a look-see
hoplological
hydroquinone monoamyl ether
Kalulu
kekst
ketanserine
lumpy curd
maintenance allocation chart
makedo
malignant osteomyelitis
mammon worship
midline exposure
mode adapter
multi-spectrum
musculus triceps brachiis
newkirk
night hill
nonpossessions
Nutter float valve
padded cells
pavlovic
persifleurs
polyphyllus
powm
propalate
proportional directional valve
pushes off
qursh
rake up the earth
rank outsider
reactor power monitor
relief pattern
relief valve ball
republics of namibia
Rhizopus nodosus
rubificative
Rubus trivialis
Salmonella mikawashima
scriptwriting
Sedco Hills
shrinkage percentage
sigma information retrieval system
some people have all the luck
spacecraft orbit control
St-André
statistical coil
strain gauge scanner recorder
strong-motion seismology
suddenly failure
tension weight
terminal velocity dive
tie rod spring
TIFPB
tower pond
udags
unreligiously
Villafranca del Penedés
vision systems
ziehl-neelsen