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
ailest
ala lobuli centralis
andreaea taiwanensis
antitwilight
Armillifer armillatus
ballot papers null and void
ban from
base net(triangulation)
Biharnagybajom
biomass geochemistry
Blackmur, Richard Palmer
blow out current
brassel
Captain Horatio Hornblower
characteristic loss spectrum
chemlab
circulation feed water heater
co-ally
combinatorial logic network
concrete temperature control
counsels
cumulative feature
customising
data paths
debays
deepithelialized
depressant prescription
dermic cancroid
diatomous
downwarped
dropped fuel assembly
egressing
Ephedra minuta
Fabas
fabricable
fawny
full legal weight
generator commutation
grass-like
hexadachylia
Hppler (rolling ball)viscosimeter
icelandic monetary units
impast
intermittent region
ion condensation
iritome
Jahwist
kam muangs
kamberis
laurita
leather cloak
leptochiton ater
lid clamp
linear time-varying control system
low energy nuclear physics
main line system
martingale difference process
maximum continuous condition
middle note
military might
nervous regulation
non-deterministic time complexity
not less than
oprising
order Myxobacteriales
Ornithorhynchus
over-controls
pdl (abbreviation)
Pilning
pithwood
plated leather
port riser
pressurization system
pteroyl
Puccinellia anisoclada
pulse-initiating rotor
radiographic
rampway
ranklingly
raw slurry
rcecurvation
relational approach
right of litigation
Saturday Night Live
scrub out
Sebuku, Pulau
sertac (kemer)
shenzis
spark plasma
spillages
syndrome decoding
system meshed
tanty
temperature compensated crystal oscillator
time-warping
toot your own horn
total variation non-increasing
transceive
ultimate period
uncleation theory
Well Stacked
willerdom