时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(十一)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out Wednesday as the country's chief law enforcement officer, after enduring more than a year of blistering 1 and personal attacks from President Donald Trump 2 over his recusal from the Russia investigation 3. Sessions told the President in a letter that he was submitting his resignation "at your request".


At a news conference, Trump warned House Democrats 4 against spending the remaining years of his presidency 5 investigating him and the administration. Democrats won control of the House in yesterday's midterm elections. He said the two parties should work together.


The Girl Scouts 6 of the United States of America has filed a trademark 7 infringement 8 lawsuit 9 against the Boy Scouts of America for dropping the word boy from its flagship program in an effort to attract girls.


Samsung provided a glimpse at a fold-able screen phone device that it will release next year. It is expected to compete against several other flexible screen phones.



1 blistering
adj.酷热的;猛烈的;使起疱的;可恶的v.起水疱;起气泡;使受暴晒n.[涂料] 起泡
  • The runners set off at a blistering pace. 赛跑运动员如脱缰野马般起跑了。
  • This failure is known as preferential wetting and is responsible for blistering. 这种故障称为优先吸湿,是产生气泡的原因。 来自辞典例句
2 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。
3 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
4 democrats
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 presidency
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
6 scouts
侦察员[机,舰]( scout的名词复数 ); 童子军; 搜索; 童子军成员
  • to join the Scouts 参加童子军
  • The scouts paired off and began to patrol the area. 巡逻人员两个一组,然后开始巡逻这个地区。
7 trademark
n.商标;特征;vt.注册的…商标
  • The trademark is registered on the book of the Patent Office.该商标已在专利局登记注册。
  • The trademark of the pen was changed.这钢笔的商标改了。
8 infringement
n.违反;侵权
  • Infringement of this regulation would automatically rule you out of the championship.违背这一规则会被自动取消参加锦标赛的资格。
  • The committee ruled that the US ban constituted an infringement of free trade.委员会裁定美国的禁令对自由贸易构成了侵犯
9 lawsuit
n.诉讼,控诉
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
学英语单词
advance of freshet
amalgam cell
ammoebocytogenous
antidrom-
artifical environment
bereavers
Bien Son
black market purchase
blus
bond discount unamortized
boothferry
botanicals
bottom density current
buffi
bufo smithi
capricorn
CAT 6
channel listing
click-thru
coarse plate
code brown
coiled finned-tube type cooler
collection of taxes
column tube
condensation test
craniocerebellocardiac
criteria-cued
critical pressure relief device
dcf formatter
demethylations
dermamyiasis linearis migrans
disgregate
DSAR
educational measure
epinodosin
Evergrande
field ambulatorium
fila terminale
flower-bud abscission
freeze-wellboring
frequency-domain convolution
frontal rain
genus drosophyllums
good-dame
Great Divide Basin
heteropterous
Hnilec
horizon seiscrop section
humeroulnar head
hydrogen cracking
inter-service support
interactive computing
intermediate frequency stage
l.r
lanchara
lashed out
linked veins
Ljubisnja
low pressure hose
madrigalers
Mallotus metcalfianus
metaarsenite
misfit parameter
most definitely
Noeschoengastia
non-depolarization
nonbinary
O. B. E.
obliquus set
operator isomorphism
plasma-ray device
Pluchea pteropoda
PMNL
powerwashers
priesand
primary business
progressive scanning system
Proteaceae
pullis
quatre
Ramus descendens
Red Jungle-fowl
roone
seal sth in
service rack
short-range navigation
sifting
Sohano
stays-at-home
subordinate tree
teledensity
Temin enzyme
Tirend
tricotyledonous
ultrasonic transmitter
unshowy
v-series recommendations
valvula semilunaris
vapor extractor
weld pass
wild ryes
Zhoushan Islands