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 red shirt
air counterbalance
air humidifying equipment
Alamo Heights
allowable heeling
amniotic fluid stain examination
angiostrongylosis
aphantobiont
auto-collimating
batch weigher
bearing holder
Bimin
bittersweet chocolate
blank fixe
blight trial
bows and arrows
bright day
broke out into
canal structure
catecholase
Celastrus aculeatus
chloromethyl ehtyl ketone
cockspur
Cootehill
countertrade wind
cross ripple mark
crusaders
definite-time delay operation
deprive someone of something
distribution circuit
double stick hank dyeing machine
eccentric upset
elementary particle physics
end-winding support structure
environmental public policy development
ethiogensis
external fired boiler
farnesiana
femto-lumens
flos dolichosis
fuel storage pool filter holding pump
full pressure
full-arrest beam lifter
gestes
ghost ramp
goniotomy
gray cast-iron brake shoe
heat lag
helium voice
hepatocholangial
investment in a wholly-owned subsidiary
Jewspeak
johann mendels
Jurchen
kassin
keevil
kyver
l. m. montgomeries
lapis chloriti
limiting reagent
Longmorn
Magnolia conspicua
martial judge
mature cow weight
mcwhinnie
metaplax
microcentrifuged
monitoring of grass diseases
negative impedance converter (nic)
non-linear acoustic effect
ocean energy section
overall budget level
pain phosphorus
patentees
pre-stroke adjustment
press for mould extrusion
pressure-breathing system
Pygeum topengii
rabbitadapted virus
raft foundations
ribbon feeding
schwartz
secondary recording instrument
shift reaction
sick sinus syndrome
single byte correction
sister-german
slicing and caving
soft coating
soften
sphyrna mokarran
stampeder
Sturry
success probability
synchronous voltage
take someone captive
trembathite
unexploded cartridge
weight application
whirlwind
xanthoprotein reaction
Zwickauer Mulde