时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


At least 17 people are known dead from Florida to Virginia in the aftermath of hurricane Michael. More than 300,000 homes and businesses remained without power in Florida and Georgia Sunday.


Retail 1 giant Sears has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 2 protection. The filing is expected to impact tens of thousands of workers.


International business leaders are pulling out of the upcoming investment forum 3 in Saudi Arabia. That country is dealing 4 with growing pressure after the disappearance 5 and suspected murder of Saudi Aribian journalist Jamal Khashoggi.


A pilot is dead after a small plane crashed into a home in Payson, Arizona. No injuries were reported on the ground. The cause of the crash is under investigation 6.



1 retail
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
2 bankruptcy
n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
3 forum
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
4 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
5 disappearance
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
6 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。
学英语单词
accidentologist
adonizing
adverse factor
aeronautical fixedservice
air-dried moisture
ALT key
artos
audette
bad prognosis
barge against
beet harvester
bratunac
cachoeiras de macacu
caratuberoside
close-fallout
coverts
crossing streams
daughter of Jezebel
demographers
detrivores
do the deed
drats
drevils
Eastern mixed forest
edge connector
Eliot, George
eudesme virescen (carm.) j.ag.
Eurofizz
exact sequence of morphisms
eye's sensitivity
f-stop
fibrofelt
first-responders
flatterings
flowing earth
four-terminal resistance thermometer
FTFY
galliwasp
geographic proximity
glucoreceptor
golgi complexes
Grasdorf
Hanau kinoscope
henced
hydrogen ion concentrations
indian sub - continent
Inman's Nautical Tables
Institute Voyage Clauses Hulls
instrie
intellectual power
iwrc(independent wire rope core) wirerope
keyplates
l conversion
lago de nicaragua
laminarised
level condition
life course
marginal supplementary cost
Maxam-Gilbert method
milk-vomiitng
mini-button
nano-henry
noneffluent
office-workers
on the south
on-hold
one's true colors
onomatopeic
Paraxenol
paying back
peridea graeseri tayal
phytomechanics
power frequency
primary film
raised shelter deck
ramirezs
rcj
rib holding forceps
ring expansion
selfinjection
series of number
Sligo, B.
small soaptree
sorkedalite
spergel
spider-webby
spruce
stellate bodies
stored-value card
strict compliance rule
swath method
tied input
transit condition
transpassing
turbinate bones
TVWS
ultimate capacity
vegetable oils and fat(s)
vibrossage
warm language
whittles away
yowpindail