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
absolute assignment
all-or-none response
all-weather carrier landing system
as wet as a drowned rat
automatic fault finding and maintenance
backward-sloping letter
bated
battering method
beltlike
blackboard framework
boo-boo,booboo
borealiss
Buerger's disease
bulk gypsum carrier
calculating method of load resistant capacity
catarrhacte
centered conic
Chromis
cobweb spiders
coefficient of relatedness
constitutive ablations
copperbelly
coralwood
cupola torch
currymuncher
Decca Tracking and Ranging
dextrere
die will-less
display preferences
dissociative trance disorder (dtd)
Domaszkow
duplicate printing machine
elliptic point
explosive content
feed water pump of steam turbine
firewell
follow-on echelon
Gironniera subaequalis
graffane
half-saturation time unit
Han-yang
helmintosporol
hindleg paralysis
hughey
hydrated water
hydro-desulfurization
inexcessof
intercommunicates
interval function of bounded variation
it's too expensive
John Lennon
knee cap
lawful killing
leukopoeitic
lime burn
Mays al Jabal
Mazus fauriei
monozygous
mugil lizas
Nkrumahism
normal incidence reflectivity
Obertal
Passport Office
pellagrous
Philadelphia pepper pot
photochemical dose
pituitary basophilic cellular tumor
quantest
Quinethasone
r/m
rail ladder
rampless
reke
research psychology
rixa
russett
Sexau
shadowless lighting
shallow hardening steel
similarly isomorphic
snob effect
steady state model
synthetic mustard oil
teome
the beauty of ghent
the Exchequer
the us department of energy
thickening capacity
tourneyed
TV relay transmitter
uncoaching
unweighted average
w/o
waiting games
waldens
wardrobe department
waying
wheel reduction gear
within hailing distance
year of discretion
zaya
zone optimization