时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(四)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. The White House is calling a new inquiry 1 into former national security advisor 2 Michael Flynn "Appropriate". The pentagon's acting 3 inspector 4 general is investigating payments received by Flynn from Russia's state sponsored RT television network, as well as a Turkish-owned company linked to Turkey's government. 


2. The senior navy commander overseeing Pacific military operations says North Korea's crisis is at the worst point he's ever seen. Admiral Harry 5 Harris Jr. told the senate armed service committee he has no doubt Pyongyang intends to develop a nuclear missile capable of striking the U.S. 


3. Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau applauded president Trump 6's announcement that he will not immediately pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, as originally promised. Trudeau said he and Trump had a "Good conversation about the issue Wednesday night". 


4. And the penguin 7 colony at the London zoo has two new editions. The baby birds were hatched last week, one chick on Easter Monday, followed two days later by its sibling 8.   


Kelly Daschle,  the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 inquiry
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
2 advisor
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
3 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
4 inspector
n.检查员,监察员,视察员
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
5 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
6 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。
7 penguin
n.企鹅
  • The penguin is a flightless bird.企鹅是一种不会飞的鸟。
  • He walked with an awkward gait like a penguin.他走路的步子难看得就像企鹅。
8 sibling
n.同胞手足(指兄、弟、姐或妹)
  • Many of us hate living in the shadows of a more successful sibling.我们很多人都讨厌活在更为成功的手足的阴影下。
  • Sibling ravalry has been common in this family.这个家里,兄弟姊妹之间的矛盾很平常。
学英语单词
.gfx
air-ground control radio station
alectryomancers
Apopka
ask communication
bactericidal agent
Bakhtemir
blinking method of image
bridge crane with man-trolley
castled
cerny
change one's skin
chemical dehydrator
continuous aquifer
controller address
corkier
deltoid m.
descaling sprays
dimethylaminobenzoic acid
dormigene
emmanuels
epinatrolite
fiercens
flax family
float cooking
Garden of England
Gilbert,Sir William Schwenck
golf-ball-size
Gonapodyaceae
gradationary
gravity-feed lubricator
group selection system
haunch segment
homonomous hemianopia
hypophysial infantilism
in chancery
index pages
inventory and production process
Karl Theodor
Kinlough
Limia, R.(Lima, R.)
limit plug gage
liquid hydrogen loading liquid line system
living nature
local treaty
look-up technique
lower tension carriage
main indicators of economic developments
maltose figure
mccallion
melanteritum
mononuclear leukocyte
morallon
Mulgedium umbrosum
navigable database
nevelsons
number-two
oliveto
OSS (operational storage site)
overnutrition
payload efficiency
pensill
Petelin Seamount
Piyyut
platalea leucorodia leucorodia
PLECTOGLOSSIDAE
pole of polar coordinates
polyoxyalkylene bis-thiourea
postmeasles
prevent recurrence
proactively
provider name
quality control reliability
raise one's voice against
random pattern skin flap
ravellings
reciprocation piston pump
rheumatism root
righty-ho
river silt engineering
RRPM
Saxifraga pallida
seame
secondary polycythemia
Security Descriptor Definition Language
self-isolating
sillago asiatica
Sir Arthur Travers Harris
spessard
SSTP
submarine eruption
Supraanconeal
tangana
three point turn
TightVNC
truck and trailer
Tx.
unrevived
unvadable
Venus' slipper
water pressure test
welmost