时间:2018-12-01 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.


President Trump 1 used a rally in Mississippi to mock Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Supreme 2 Court nominee 3 Brett Kavanaugh. Ford's attorney, on Twitter, called President Trump's words a vicious, vile 4 and soulless attack.


A new report claims President Trump received more than 400 million dollars from his father, much of it through dubious 5 tax scheme or fraud. The White House and President's lawyer both rejected the report in the New York Times.


A volcano erupted in Indonesia, on the same island that an earthquake hit on Friday. Planes were warned about volcanic 6 ash but no evacuations were immediately ordered.


18 people including a congressional candidate were arrested while protesting outside a McDonald's restaurant in Detroit. The demonstrators were calling for a higher minimum wage and the right to form labor 7 unions.



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 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
3 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
4 vile
adj.卑鄙的,可耻的,邪恶的;坏透的
  • Who could have carried out such a vile attack?会是谁发起这么卑鄙的攻击呢?
  • Her talk was full of vile curses.她的话里充满着恶毒的咒骂。
5 dubious
adj.怀疑的,无把握的;有问题的,靠不住的
  • What he said yesterday was dubious.他昨天说的话很含糊。
  • He uses some dubious shifts to get money.他用一些可疑的手段去赚钱。
6 volcanic
adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
7 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
学英语单词
a fair lay
adhorting
airborne ranger
ask no odds of
astronomical calculation
Aulocystis
automatic gain control(agc)receiver
back and fill to
baldacchino
beam tie
betabrass
blue-tongued skink
books of mormon
cargo delivery system
characteristic plane
classify
clean gone
clonalities
coagulant aids
cocconeis sublittoralis
conformable relation
container handling vehicle
culmifer
cystozooid
deal or no deal
direct-deposit
dorsal lingual veins
double majors
elephantsnout fish
endoscopic embryology
energy trapping
entergy
extra-natural
eye-stripes
farnesiana
feedforward propagation
film base
flipflop string
flood diversion region
fluorescamine
fly paper
gear inertia
general operating language
geological structure
get into a dispute with sb
Goolwa
Hamilton principle
head design
heat kill
Hepatopoietin
hockfield
iliensis
isobutyl-trimethyl-silicane
itch-free
leadership substitute
leda cloth
left-to-right shunt
linear time algorithm
lodongiyn
MacMichael degree
main technical requirement of railway
marchese copper process
maximum transmission unit (mtu)
mems postprocessing
minionette
monocyclic orogenesis
mortgage note
natural substrates
nautanki
obliquity of peivis
occurrence time of minimum load
oomycides
overutilisation
partition coefficient
passing stool with pus and blood
philadelphus schrenkii var. mandsuricus (maxim.) kitagawa
plane convex lens
play of valve
post-officer
priority research areas
program system testing
pulsating amber light
put on the brake
rated control voltage
real-time address
redesignated site
redrafting
rest-day
ruled form
saucebox
seconddrawer
self-lubricating lower track roller
slice of time
snoozings
sob stuffs
store service
Sus scrofa
tachyauxesis
technopund
thermodynamic system of steam turbine
two-cylinder turbine
XSF