时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(一)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute.


1. President Obama commuted 1 the 25 years prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, freeing her in May. Manning acknowledged leaking diplomatic cables and national security documents to Wikileaks for publication in 2010. Wikileaks' editor Julian Assange said on Twitter last week he will surrender to U.S authorities if Manning got clemency 2


2. President-elect Donald Trump 3 welcomed nearly 150 diplomats 4, plus donors 5 and incoming White House staffers to a dinner in Washington. 


3. Orlando, Florida police caught the man accused of shooting and killing 6 an Orlando police officer last week. Markys Loyde was wearing body armor and carrying two handguns when he surrendered. 


4. And a sinkhole nearly swallowed a truck in a parking lot northeast of Atlanta. Local officials say all pipes beneath the parking lot apparently 7 rusted 8 away and caved in. 


Sandy Kozel,  the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



通勤( commute的过去式和过去分词 ); 减(刑); 代偿
  • His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment. 他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
  • The death sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment. 死刑可能減为无期徒刑。
n.温和,仁慈,宽厚
  • The question of clemency would rest with the King.宽大处理问题,将由国王决定。
  • They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书。
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。
n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 );有手腕的人,善于交际的人
  • These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
  • The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
v.(使)生锈( rust的过去式和过去分词 )
  • I can't get these screws out; they've rusted in. 我无法取出这些螺丝,它们都锈住了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • My bike has rusted and needs oil. 我的自行车生锈了,需要上油。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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acute isolated myocarditis
aero-gas turbine engine
air ram
air-free concrete
analepticon
asthernosphere bump
astronaut decision-making
barotropic rossby wave
basileolatry
bisammonium
blue hour
bulbospinal paralysis
bures
butane diacid
cajan peas
campsites
carbohydrate cycle
centrarchid
ceramic flux
coefficient of scouring
colloidal material
complete solution
conceptious
dead-hearted
deception objective
dispersed university
drainage thread
e-libraries
electronic banking services
endophragma
eserism
excellens
fettlings
friable soil
gels
glacio-river deposit
glucosaccharic acid
golfaholic
half roundtrip fare
hebephiliac
Here's how!
high-density disk
hydroaffinity
hydroxyethylacetamide
informed investment decision
inosculations
internal address indicating group
interval tree
jean piagets
key school
Kywegat
Louys, Pierre
mail fraud
Mars Global Surveyor
mashpee
methenyl triiodide
midpeninsular
milky in the filbert
mining geodesy
Mistaprel
money at long
moveout velocity
nanosteradians
neigeuse
non-preferred
noncarotenoids
online-news
other kinds of income specified as taxable
pagemaster
Palestine
polythene
PSNC
pulse transponding
quotation mark(s)
reinterviewing
remote-controlled
reverse gearbox
revokements
serzone
shaker shoe
shared I-O device
smoking machine
soft readjustment
softe ning
spring cushion
square edge orifice
St George's Channel
standardized signalling system
stenostomatous
stored energy constant
structural significant item
suicide squeezes
Sulfacil
surface intermediate
synthetic cement
track wheel arm
typhomalarial
variotinted
venaticus
vepricardium multispinosum
warez
world strategy