时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(五)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. President Obama in Hanoi has announced the U.S has ended a decades-long arms embargo 1 against Vietnam. The two nations also released a joint 2 statement, citing example how they are increasing cooperation. 


2. Iraqi government has announced they are launching a military offensive to retake the city of Fallujah from the Islamic State group. Officials say government forces have pushed militants 3 at some farm areas outside the city, which is west of Baghdad. 


3. Authorities near Boston say the man suspected killing 4 a police officer early Sunday morning was killed in a shootout with state police. The suspect is identified as 35-year old Jorge Zambrano. One trooper was hurt in the shootout. 


4. And the U.S navy aircrafts have joined the search for debris 5 from EgyptAir flight 804. 66 people were aboard the passenger plane when it crashed in the Mediterranean 6 sea last week. 


Matt Small , the associated press, with AP news minute.



1 embargo
n.禁运(令);vt.对...实行禁运,禁止(通商)
  • This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
  • During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间,他们禁止与敌国通商。
2 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
3 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
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。
5 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
6 Mediterranean
adj.地中海的;地中海沿岸的
  • The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
  • Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。
学英语单词
acetoacetate cleavage enzyme
Acraniata
action for passing-off
add circuit
air-cooled mercury rectifier
air-drag
architects specification
arithmetic index number
automatic resean measuring equipment
ball and socket hinge
basic balance
Bernoulli sampling process
Blasius equation
branndon
British soldiers
Bucy
catrines
chimping
Chincolco
clocks in
commutator inspection hole
conveyer screen
coolant flow through the core
cornus australis c.a.meyer
coupling link
cultural beliefs
d'equipe
dano-norwegians
dataphones
Delphinium monanthum
depth-first search
disruptant
ends-on
felt wrapped roll
ferro-electric memory matrix
fhp
fine-ground
flutazolam
formation sensitivity
glomars
heavy water pressure vessel reactor
hierarchical database
Homeward Point
hosiery
html comment
hyperfrequency waves
in one's own words
increased cruising range
infinite electrode
interpersonal judgment scale
JisuFormation
junctureless
Klebsielleae-Enterobacter-Serratia
klejman
Krezs's granules
laser fundamental
laser seismometer
level-winding device
lhotes
major chord
measure swords with someone
Michigan rolls
middle men
minor speed
monolithic isolator
national cash register
normal colo(u)r vision
NSAD
on-line database
paging access
paper-out
particle growth factor
pedal-note
pipes up
plutonium(iv) sulfite
prepartal
Priapea
production distribution
project support equipment
radiosynovectomy
rate of generation
ready-cooked
richens
rostite
roughish
Santa Caterina di Pittinuri
self-governments
Sepyron
shaped beam antenna
single diffusion test
smoothhound shark
stands in the way of
status dysgraphicus dysgraphia
Strathaven
tonry
toshed
tractus corticospinalis
vbt
wage related occupation
Watteau bodice
zophar