时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(二)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Stock market in Asia took a beating on Tuesday following the massive drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The slump 1 began Friday as investors 2 worried about higher inflation.


Vice 3 President Mike Pence isn't ruling out of meeting with North Korean officials while at the Winter Olympics in South Korea. Pence visited a missile defense 4 site in Alaska while on his way to South Korea.


Sheriff's deputy were shot and killed in Colorado Springs on Monday while investigating a stolen vehicle. Two more deputies, a police officer and a civilian 5 were wounded. The suspect was killed.


The House Intelligence Committee voted to release a democratic memo 6 on the Russia investigation 7. It's a response to a republican version, which claims the FBI and Justice Department abused their power while seeking to monitor all one-time Trump 8's associates. President Trump makes the final decision on whether to release it.


Mike Brown is at the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 slump
n.暴跌,意气消沉,(土地)下沉;vi.猛然掉落,坍塌,大幅度下跌
  • She is in a slump in her career.她处在事业的低谷。
  • Economists are forecasting a slump.经济学家们预言将发生经济衰退。
2 investors
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
3 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
4 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
5 civilian
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
  • There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
  • He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
6 memo
n.照会,备忘录;便笺;通知书;规章
  • Do you want me to send the memo out?您要我把这份备忘录分发出去吗?
  • Can you type a memo for me?您能帮我打一份备忘录吗?
7 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。
8 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
学英语单词
act the part of
affrontingly
air your dirty laundry in public
angular position transducer
antispirochetele
arago man
artificial reproduction rate
Bicol
bohems
Bohn's nodules
brachialis muscle
bring sth home
camleted
Campanula canescens
capacitability
carica
carotenol
ceramology
chain pulley block
chloro-palladite
closed edge gutter stabilizer
closing head (rivet point)
comparative slaughter technique
contact metasomation
cost-reducing
crossflows
data collection facility
demand-of-the-job theory
diamond-shaped damper
discosia dioscoreae
done up
drawbacks
electric cable accessory
energy-integral equation
equilibratory organs
fumaric acid diethyl ester
general price level
ground brush
Hartree-Fock SCF method
Hellenistical
hemosiderin
herrscher
HF-264
huaquero
inelastic-region
ionization pressure gauge
journal angle
jumbo-sized
kangaroo court
katt
kisatchie
lambdoid ligament
lamprometra palmata
Leerstetten
line? musculares
Lloyd's underwriter
magnesium carbonate (magnesite)
matteddleite
meltwater
microcomputer systems support
minimum length of grade section
mixer with analyzer
monopole mass spectrometer
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista
multiparasitisms
multiple discharge
NHCAA
non-absorbent
opian
page-turning capability
parent attitude rating scale
pass upon a case
penal colonies
Phoebe kwangsiensis
Pseudophyllidea
push-down automaton
put oneself upon record
rack mounted server
radial arm routing
railroad men
rejuvenescence in tissues
ronsake
sciaenoids
self-supply
seyler
slosh force
southwest cap
spiran
sticky coal
stillich
superficies pathogens involving interior
superspend
T-agglutination
telemagmatic metamorphism
the weaker sex
throw into disorder
ultraphone
unesco-sponsored
us border
Vynohradiv
winding bar
wzb