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
acetyloxide
agglutinogens
alcohol thermometre
aphididaes
architrave jamb
assertorily
be starving
beranger
Black Buddhist
bodyshape
bounding line
button head spring
cab over engine type
canned sight
carrying times per shift
cataract expression hook
circumstantial evidence of audit
comitive
compoundress
contilever spring
contracting-out
cost of equity capital
cystomerocele
dailey
dianemobius fascipes
direct-band-gap semiconductor
dumbshow
echmasis
edge-punched punch
egg blue
Ekman-merz current meter
excess cross-section
fall zone
ferry communication
fire helmet
first philosophy
Flexeril
free cantilever segmental concreting with suspended form-work
freeze-fracture electron microscopy
French-polish
Gerrididae
gravida III
high-speed packet
hypernociception
iec specifications
income realization principle
infrared ray cocoon boiling machine
integrated rehearsal
Keynesian consumption function
La Piňa, R.
let go
low-alkali ceramics
Malιköy
Manorhaven
mechanical guy derrick
mesomechanics
metalcraft
military-industrial complexes
mill fever
multimerisation
neighborwise
ninhursags
noncallable notes
nonspecific treatment
normal yield table
on one's game
palatine sinus
penghulus
permanganate number
Philiphaugh
pneumatic tongs
pouring operation
preconsider
process moniitor and control
Pueraria thunbergiana auct. non Benth.
resilient mainspring
respew
seabed resources
sells-by date
spatially immersive display
squareness ratio
St-Vaast
stab at
state-owned enterprise
sterbenz
strong base
submerged lamp
succeed in
sulfo-phenyl-isothocyanate
synthetizing
syzygy tide
tailor's cramp
telephone communication system
to load (in computer programming)
tow-way switch
tytyl
under-invested
unsewered
vector distribution
Walk-Away Lease
wax filaments