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
admonitios
age specific fertility
air stream contamination
alphabetic writings
As they are
assonantal
babassu oils
best-offer
BFT
bramberries
buildings-revaluation increments
chronic intestinal obstruction
coexecutrixes
continuous negative pressure aspiration
coordination covalent bond
CSEL
descriptive ecology
digital-to-analog(ratio)
driveworks
federal home loan bank systems
feeding baffle
Fourier-Stieltjes transform
Georan
gets up to
golden everlastings
gradient gun
haemotachometer
haplohymenium triste
hazelhursts
HFPPV
high altitude large optics
hour index
hyolaryngeal
hyposkeletal muscle
hypothecation certificate
ice abrasion
immuno-ultracentrifugation
ingled
International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
irehine
item
Kimana
lampe
law merchants
lend sth to
liver acinus
lunar core
made hay of
magnifying power
Mahumetane
manual scribing
mechanographic
metering circuit
minialbum
minisuit
multiword relative address mode
Muslimiyah
NAND (not and) element
newly-formed ice
no-throw
non-resonances
ontography
opinionnaires
patriss
perpetuant
polar duplex
pravacillin
Prob. C.
psychotherapeuticss
Q-switched system
Ravalli County
real partition
reflate
regulation chip
revaluation of excess
Sadamin
Salters Bank
santre
sensitive line
signal receiving circuit
silver eyes
sludgers
solution maximum time
sonar antisubmarine detection
stampers
substantia grisea
swap volume
Syngachor
tank-infantry attack
Tenoveginotomy
Tetrastigma pubinerve
toreador pantss
trades on
tuberculous granuloma
unhugged
value-theory
Verazinc
vertical hitch adjuster
Wintocain
work-shirt
zero-order instrument
zinc die-casting alloys