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
3do
a little from column A, a little from column B
after-sales service
airstream atomizer
analog digital converter
architectist
astroglide
automatic oil-water pressure safety cutout device
Ban Mae Ho Phra
Bartholin abscess
be confronted
beauty-spot
bite on/upon
Blagnac
boot-up
boranamine
boucherizing
calcium hypochloride
centrifugal ultrafiltration
chordurethritis
chromagranin
chubei banhsia chu
coherent light beam
combined value
computer based education
coverers
decompressing
dense blazingstar
detail cost analysis
detoxicated
dota
emulation technique
evo
fairing process
fat edges
fat-guts
funnel with jacket
gapping blade
genus epimediums
hydrated calcium silicate
hypercalcemic uremia
hypocerebral ganglion
impedes
implicit assumption
in touch of
injection cocainism
intek
interleaved bar code
Jobrin
karpin
keep A at B
lexicogrammars
marine metal
noselite melteigite
oily fish
on the shop floor
one's sun is rising
overstacked
overthinned
Paithan
palmital (dehyde)
paradisaic
patched together
perithelial
plane of structure
point operation
radio relay repeater set
radioactive well logging
rana brevipoda porosa tokyo
reclassifies
reillumed
resetinput
reshoring
ringin
riverly
round ulcer
rubber velvet
set key
single-entry single-exit circuit
sommerfelds
stock index futures market
subsidence curve
suggestive of
surface(contact)activation
suspension attachment
teletypesetetter
terrasalica
topotypes
tree rat
trimethyllpsoralen
trot sth out
upper margin of pubic bone
vector optimization
vent and off-gas header
voltmeter ammeter method
wage-price-tax spiral
weighted reciprocal lattice
well-informed investor
white nose
wishy-washier
Wotho Atoll
xylylene dichlorides