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
aeroisoclinic wing
aftercoming head
air defense missile
anchoring cone
antisabia foliacea
back up tape
back-channel
bearer instrument
benzoylacrylic acid
bevacqua
biocrudes
biplumbic
bleaching powder and liquor section
blood-nourishing drug
brampton stock,brompton stock
Buddleja formosana
burst slug detection
by-pass feeder
cabblers
calorific value determination in a bomb calorimeter
Canary Ridge
chain-smoker
chlortetracycline calcium
chock blasting
clausum mare
Cortelan
counting circuit
coupling bolt
cushion-tire
date of death
diffused reflex
dried egg white
Enchodontoidei
everyguy
exorcisable
expading value-added tax
expandable fund
ferro-friedelite
four figure system
gas conduction lamp
gauge annunciator
generator electrode
grandoe
Gussenbauer's suture
hanged ceiling
hard-foughts
have snakes in one's boots
homologist
hydrodynamics of equatorial ocean
internuncial neuron
intranetwork
Kandé
keel date
kinocillium
Landau damping
large vessel anchorage
memorandum book
mitodepression
Morison's method
mustardless
nettle grub
nny
normalizing tranform
ocult hemorrhage
oil-out
optical designation
paramongoloid
polycarpon indicum(retz)merr.
prices tend upwards
prior art
pseudobranchs
psychomyiids
pythium megalacanthum debary var.callistephi tasugi et shiino
quickmounting
rhincalanus nasutus
rotation detector
Salavatskiy Rayon
segment rack
semi-automatic quality control
semiconductor hole
sidewalk greening
sizing press
sociomoral
soft coating
sound modulation
source duration
spot-billed duck
stud stretcher
surface medium
syncwords
taking a dip
TETRACTINELLIDA
Tetraxonida
Theophyll-SR
tindales
tube-type beam splitter
unflexes
unstable mixture
vat dyestuff
virgin diamond
writ of detention
zero reactor pressure