时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(八)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1.  There has been another shakeup in the Trump 1's campaign. Republican presidential nominee 2 Donald Trump hired Stephen Bannon of Brietbart news as CEO and named Pollster Kellyanne Conway campaign manager. The move comes just 82 days before the election. 


2. More than 80,000 residents are under evacuation warning as a massive wildfire east of Los Angles advanced on thousands of homes. The fire erupted Tuesday and spread quickly, fueled by hot weather and drought-stricken terrain 3


3. More than 500 passengers have been evacuated 4 after a small fire erupted on a cruise ship, about miles off Puerto Rico's north coast. The fire was still burning aboard the Caribbean fantasy as coast guards began bringing passengers ashore 5. There were reported fatalities 6


4. And underwater explorers announced Wednesday they discovered the second oldest confirmed ship wreckage 7 in the Great Lakes. The Washington- an American built, Canadian-own sloop 8 sank in Lake Ontario in 1803. 


Kelly Daschle, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
2 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
3 terrain
n.地面,地形,地图
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • He knows the terrain of this locality like the back of his hand.他对这一带的地形了如指掌。
4 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
5 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
6 fatalities
n.恶性事故( fatality的名词复数 );死亡;致命性;命运
  • Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤,但没有人死亡。
  • The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 wreckage
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
8 sloop
n.单桅帆船
  • They heeled the sloop well over,skimming it along to windward.他们使单桅小船倾斜适当,让它顶着风向前滑去。
  • While a sloop always has two sails,a cat-rigged boat generally has only one.一艘单桅帆船总是有两面帆,但一艘单桅艇通常只有一面帆。
学英语单词
adsubble method
age set
air bubble
alsophilas
analects, analecta
analytic probability model
anglo-africans
Anopheles aquasalis
anti-regular
athletes's
balubun
bear-spray
broken heart syndrome
bursae ischiadica musculi glutaei maximi
button days
by't
carriage-free
casemate
Chelus
clov
comfrey
conditional model
core physics
current profile
datapower
deliquescen
donars
dumbifies
electric cleaner
electron-beam source
erygrisin
estuarine ecosystem
finger for fork release
fireirons
fish-eating rat
flattened and curled shape
fugliness
glyeopyrrolate
goat meat
griading teeth
groundkeeper
haggerd
heat soak-back
high-voltage power supply
huo
I've been raped
icteric index
ideoandrosporous
immersed tunneling method
kettle room
love-token
low hanging fruits
manganous pentathionate
matrix coefficient
mechanical brake of hydro unit
moaks
multiminicomputer
Mycobacterium(genus)
nondocumented
nonreturn-to-zero logic
onge
oscillationg current
Osmanthus armatus
oxytactic
pay ... back for
penalty box
pincloth
police offense
pomatumed
pre-engineering
President Taylor
pseudoxanthomatous
PSTTACIDAE
put ... to good use
querof
ramp bow
relative frequency polygon
rining
sait
Santurtzi
self-align type
sell't
setup (set-up message)
sherardizing medium
shoeing
sick to your stomach
soprano saxhorn
sound transfer
stainis
standard input-output instruction
stoop labor
streptococcolysin
strictly same asper attached sample
Svetomir
tabulator key
taped insulation
three S
turn-off interval
wedge-shaped failure
word association test
X-ray electron probe analysis
zeuxis margaritifer