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.


Brett Kavanaugh made his way to Capitol Hill on Thursday morning ahead of what promises to be high drama. A hearing in which Senators will listen to a woman accuse the Supreme 1 Court nominee 2 of sexually assaulting her, then weigh his denial. It is the first time the country sees and hears from Kavanaugh's first accuser.


Across the street from the Capitol building, protesters gathered at the Supreme Court, chanting "Kavanaugh! No!" and holding signs that said "I believe Christine", in reference to Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford 3.


Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said at the UN Wednesday that he objects to President Donald Trump's actions against his government and says that the "illegal unilateral sanctions" are part of a bullying 4 tactic 5 by the US. His speech came on the same day that 6 countries asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Maduro on charges of crimes against humanity.


The Milwaukee County zoo has its first red panda cub 6. The cub was born on June 6 and is now about 7 pounds. Estimates put the population of adult red pandas at less than 2,500 in the wild. They also have an approximate 86% mortality rate.



1 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。
2 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。
3 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
4 bullying
v.恐吓,威逼( bully的现在分词 );豪;跋扈
  • Many cases of bullying go unreported . 很多恐吓案件都没有人告发。
  • All cases of bullying will be severely dealt with. 所有以大欺小的情况都将受到严肃处理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 tactic
n.战略,策略;adj.战术的,有策略的
  • Reducing prices is a common sales tactic.降价是常用的销售策略。
  • She had often used the tactic of threatening to resign.她惯用以辞职相威胁的手法。
6 cub
n.幼兽,年轻无经验的人
  • The lion cub's mother was hunting for what she needs. 这只幼师的母亲正在捕猎。
  • The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast. 这头幼兽吸吮着它妈妈的奶水。
学英语单词
acetyl-1-myrtenol
alluvial meadow soil
banded gneiss
beat-frequency system
bejumbled
bit in
bond scission
borthiin
brik
brockite
Buchner,Eduard
calcation
carburizei
casual house
central veins
Chinese furniture
Chinese Research Council of Technical Economy
chromatolyses
combination order
corylus americanas
counte line
CRT
de-escalate
deacon's bench
denverbased
discharge outfall
disrelishable
double-post
dual ideal
endogenous pigment
enumeration-i/o package
eotetranychus maai
flat as a pancake
folding pocketmagnifier
forecasting process
francis josephs
gainzas
Gordon sign
grasby
green cigar
gutturalizes
hectocycle
higher-mode coupling
in someone's boots
intestinalisation
isobutyl methyl ether
isotopic indicator
jumblement
lanius excubitors
laser-two-focus anemometer
loose pin
material usage standards
McCar.
misliterate
mobility constant
monochrome multipersistence screen
multi-column journal
nuptial coloration
one's own experience
ophthalmite
payroll deduction
phenyl ketone
pistacia lentiscuss
pneumoren
pork fillet
potamoplankton
press button sprinkling system
pressure control unit
probablistic logic
profit-maximize
putrefacton
radicalness
range in
re-group
real axes
record size
renounceable provisional letter of allotment
RMLV
sinostrangalia ikedai
spalacid
squiredom
stocking fillers
striple
superunda
Suspension Insulators
take a poor view of
technetronic
tetragonal parahemihedron
thalsimidine
thickening in region of a joint
Thraupidae
timer programmer
to pour oil on troubled waters
trading hours
train mates
trimethylacetates
triquarks
undissembling
vena caudalis dorsalis
Venus' comb
virgater
whenwes