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
Adhere to reforms and opening to the outside world
amalgambarrel
ancistrum
antideaf otic pill
arietellus aculeatus
articulated pod
ASPHV
astropecten velitaris
beat pin
bipolar type
Brookol
buckling deflection
bummed-out
cable and wireless
castillo de san marcos national monument
castor seed
chipped away
coal shoot
codebtor
combat crew
congruence expression
controlled-beam magnetron
cybermuseum
cylinder body bushing boring-machine
DHg,D.Hg.
diphenylthiourea
double channel catheter
down the river
Dragendorff's test
electronic vacuum dilatometer
enriched-fuel reactor
evil tidings
family-value
Festubert
fetch round
fibre coupling
First life
foot strain
formater
galvanic test
genus mollienesias
genus Polygonia
genus Spizella
grassmann's law
hard-top
honey bantam
house-brand gasoline
Hubschmann's pseudaconitine
imformosome
inside measurement
installation and maintenance
ishii kann
japonica
Khāpa
kinematic(al) equation
lattice isomorphism
LEASAT
lentus
leper lily
linceus
long term planning of power system
manufacture of foreign
mean transverse distance
MHPED
microliterature
mining flameproof electrical rock drill
mitomalcin
mold-formed bottle
nonstop crossing of opposite trains
nucleofuge
object-oriented operating system
pchloroamphetamine
PCKD
person marketing
piezo-electric control
polar sciences
priority access
prolong the period of validity
quadric discriminator
RADR
recopilation
red - eye special
red-neckeds
route indicator
rubbing alcohol
Scleria tessellata
semblables
sequential access memory
shop hours
Smoke Cr.
sound-deadening
spray cooling tower
standard shortened rail
star finite complex
Symplocos ramosissima
transcendentalise
treatment timer
unpractical
valley plain
vesicular stomatitis
weisenheimer
wide wale