时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(八)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions is answering President Donald Trump's call to crack down on leaks of classified information. On Friday, Sessions announced to renew focus on the issue, saying "the culture of leaking must stop."


US employers added 209,000 jobs in July, a second straight month of robust 1 gains according to a new US jobs report. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.3% -- a 16-year low. The report is likely to boost expectations of future interest rate hikes.


In Kansas City, officials say about 10 people were sickened by a suspicious package in the mail room of an IRS building. Employees complained to have been vomiting 2 and sweating after the package arrived, and two people were taken to the hospital. The incident remains 3 under investigation 4.


And in Louisiana, the US Coast Guard awards four men public service medals after video of a flood rescue goes viral. A TV reporter shot this video updated Phung ripping the top off a convertible 5 to save a woman and her dog during flooding last summer. Phung recieving the Coast Guard's Silver Lifesaving Medal for his bravery.


Robert Bumstead, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 robust
adj.强壮的,强健的,粗野的,需要体力的,浓的
  • She is too tall and robust.她个子太高,身体太壮。
  • China wants to keep growth robust to reduce poverty and avoid job losses,AP commented.美联社评论道,中国希望保持经济强势增长,以减少贫困和失业状况。
2 vomiting
  • Symptoms include diarrhoea and vomiting. 症状有腹泻和呕吐。
  • Especially when I feel seasick, I can't stand watching someone else vomiting." 尤其晕船的时候,看不得人家呕。”
3 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
4 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
5 convertible
adj.可改变的,可交换,同意义的;n.有活动摺篷的汽车
  • The convertible sofa means that the apartment can sleep four.有了这张折叠沙发,公寓里可以睡下4个人。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了。
学英语单词
16-bit operating system
adverse party
airswallowing
alloxazine
arbitrates
attach major importance to
auto-amputation
Ban Huai Hut
basilicatas
be oriented to
boardinghouses
bradby
cable marks
calcinus vachoni
calmette-gerine
centrifuge stock
cerams
Chahuites
champagne lounges
chlorosis in soybean
clinothem front
co star
coating system for propeller shaft
Coluna
coox
crazy-paved
cryptomycin
cylinder grinding
czerny turner mounting
debuccinate
Dedarryomyces tyrocola
dharmsalas
dispersion reagent
Donus
drawing file
Easby
finger-print map
four-terminal circulator
G.B.S.
galliralluss
Gamm
gas sampling line
gingerbread offices
greater cornua
hardingstones
heavily-armed
HEMTT
husbandings
Hydro-12
infrasonics
interruption of firing
Inyan Kara Creek
jimmying
lip-born
media commission
molecular ion
movable oil plot
natural medicine
noise spectra
non-industrial
Ocaňa, Mesa de
oceanic central water
optical projection reading device
packing segment
parfocal
phylloes
plasmogen(y)
polkissen of Zimmerman
Polygonum tinctorium Lour.
potassium propionate
process time limit
pull side
quarter spring
rearmounted offset pickup press
S-483
salpingometric rupture
Samuelson, Paul
sandwich-type element
Sheep-Associated
shiok
shouldn'ta
space element
spare spring
starter frame through bolt
studio broadcast
syllogismhood
the ballet of chess
theoryof algebraic correspondence
top-down allocation
transformant doctrine
two-dimensional stress system
uncanonicalness
unconspiratorial
unit run time
urocust (or urinary bladder)
venae ophthalmica superior
wall fan
washing equipment
Winooski R.
wyeomyia
year-end agjustment
zone of equiaxial crystals