时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(四)月


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This is AP News Minute.


The Pentagon is backing President Donald Trump 1's assertion that the missile strikes in Syria were "mission accomplished 2." At a briefing Saturday, Pentagon officials said the US-led airstrikes successfully hit every target and they were not aware of any civilian 3 casualties.


Russia condemned 4 the Syrian airstrikes at an emergency UN security meeting it requested. The US ambassador to UN, Nikki Haley, said that the US is "locked and loaded" if the Syrian regime uses poisonous gas again.


Vice 5 President Mike Pence told U.S. Allies in Latin America the US-led airstrikes on Syria "degraded and crippled" the country's chemical weapons capability 6. Pence is fling in for President Trump at the Summit of the Americas.


Tens of Thousands of people sang, cheered and cried at the funeral for anti-apartheid activist 7 Winnie Mandela. The woman often refereed 8 to as the "Mother of the Nation" is being buried as a national hero in South Africa.


This is Julian Stiles, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 accomplished
adj.有才艺的;有造诣的;达到了的
  • Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
  • Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。
3 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。
4 condemned
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。
5 capability
n.能力;才能;(pl)可发展的能力或特性等
  • She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
  • Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。
6 activist
n.活动分子,积极分子
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
7 refereed
vi.担任裁判(referee的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • Your focus should be on getting papers published in refereed journals. 首要的就是发表文章,而且是在匿名审稿的杂志上。 来自互联网
  • It was a national judge who refereed the game. 执法这场比赛的是国家裁判。 来自互联网
学英语单词
Aryanizing
average atmospheric atom number
beetle off
bifiar winding
Bilsi
biome type
buy-one-get-one-free
causal laws
celestial object
cloakedly
cognitive coping skill
concurrent negligences
coplanar network
cytoplasm (strasburger 1882)
decorative laminate
degraded mountains
Dibromotetrafluoropropane
discerning
disinfecting mat (foot mat)
Electricity over IP
foreign subsidiary
forty-eighters
front-end fees
genus Otaria
GOCA
gulonate
haermeyer
halpe gamma
handwritten alpha-numeric character
holodisk
holomorphological
hydrodipsia
ichthyosis cornea
impastured
input-output switching
interest formula
intrinsic elemental semiconductor
jail
jovanovski
JSQS
kymograph
lardries
lauterbrunnen
lead attribute
log raft
malleable
Markranstädt
mass gaining star
medical circles
Minimum Price Contract
mulvital
name register
non-periodical statistical report
Oblivon
output cost ratio
Owen Glendower
para-aminosalicylic acid (pas)
Patrinia heterophylla
pellerins
Ponderax
Pope Day
Potshausen
problems of wage determination
push/pull cable
pyrophoric behaviour
radiocardiogram, radiocardiograph
radiomedicine
reactor vessel internal
reciprocating steam engine
recoiling click
reduced mass-flow
rigging-angle connector
saccharogalactorrhea
sclarcol
second-order elasticity
septennates
sharolyn
signal space
simulated formation
snackteria
sodium periodate type
speed-indicating generator
subgrade protection
suffix notations
superbowl
superspinous
Te Waewae
Thomson galvanometer
thruster pipe
traction return current rail
trunked
tweeping
two-band model
ultramicro balance
uncoiling unit
urinology
Verkhniy Kitat
voice signal processing
water screen
wheatlike
wolfram filament
yug