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
-trichous
abiyuch
accriminates
acknowledgment
agrin
air observer adjustment
all risk
American Civil Liberties Union
apatosauruses
axe-murders
Barclaya
bend the elbow
Benj.
blocklatch
book-forms
breeze coke
bridge deck width
bush canary
choke-tube
cloaket
coaddition
coryphaena
cost method
counteropening
cowlitz r.
cross-bend test
cryotool
decomplexifies
deflection field
elevation accuracy
essential factors of production
Euphorbia donii
Female Part
flood protection material
floor dealer
genealogical method
Godwin Austen, Mt.
hetairism
Hidaka-sammyaku
high - speed chase
hortulane
intervasions
jasp opal
Kirtlington
Laage
lateral range function
lead alkali metal alloy
light-sensitive resin
linear increase voltage
lobuli renalis
lower atmosphere layer
Lunal
magnetic aging
measurely
metasericite
modulated voltage
nashira
nominal contact angle
o-e
odontia deformans
opacifying
parenchymatous myelitis
pericoxale
Philippine teak
photo-FET
pycnoconidia
quietlier
race on foot
raise one's eyebrows at something
rhesus
Rhododendron tenue
right semicircle
romancist
roquin
rubidium fluosilicate
saeta
schlagblech
sea mine
seal-free flow through centrifuge
seizure of tangible items
shaddy
sharp-frozen
shortwards
sodium chloroaluminate
software generation system
steam jet burner
steam-heated oven
stoplog hoisting equipment
streamline covering
sulman
Swizzerland
syngas
tincture of hamamelis
trainable controller
tulip mold
unplumbable
Valencia Trough
vertical static convergence
videoswiping
well-hinged
wises'
xenoplastic transportation