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
acid-resistance casting
analytic chemistry laboratory
anchorage-dependent cell
androgynocentric
asphaltic sandstone
athletictraining
balance in hand
Bauer refiner
beddingfield
benjamin rushes
Boot density bottle
bot-tom
Cabracao
canting piece
census returns
channel start
chromatographic chamber
convolvers
corrosive gas
CRC character
crell
cutidure
deep tissue
diminishing method
embarkers
Epimedium fangii
filler rod
grease injector
Hanzi coding
hemispherectomy
ho' cker-passage-voltage
hostile water
human skull
Illicium tsaii
induplicate
interedition
interface chart
internal proctotomy
kaaren
kaut
Kautzen
key boss
killer languages
law of one
left coset relation
legal grip
leucobase
level instrumentation nozzle
light beam diaphragm
loan on notes
macropetalichthyid
mandy moore
marcum target model
media attachment unit 802.3
metabolism rate
minimum idling stabilized speed
moulded sweets
multi-column setting
multiple box handkerchief loom
multiple linkage
national sovereignty
neosocialists
obstropulous
one-shot multivibrator
Parnum's tests
Port twenty!
production internationalization
psychogenic polydipsla
public hall
Pālāsni
real capital
reconfiguration console
recurrent flare
registered luggage
rotary shield
seajacked
secondgrowth
self-emptying cockpit
series transformer
sluice gates
social model
speak loudly
sprinkler operation test
starin
stationary channel
steady-state characteristics
straight daywork
Thiry's fistula
Thorpe.
tourist coach
transmembrane potential difference
triakidaes
tumbago
ufe
vertical decision matrix
Victor Harb.
warehouse-style
what-happens-next
wij
wireless watcher
wood raft
zona tendinosa cordis