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.


The massive northern California wildfire is now the deadliest wildfire in California history. At least 42 people are known dead and thousands of homes and other structures have been destroyed.


The huge wildfire in southern California has burned more than 400 homes and other buildings. It's about 30% contained. But firefighters are struggling with hot, dry winds.


Israeli medical services say a rocket fired by Palestine militants 2 in Gaza hit a building and killed a man. The Israeli military says militants in Gaza fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, while Israeli struck more than 100 militant 1 targets in Gaza.


And Democrat 3 Kyrsten Sinema has won Arizona's Senate seat after a slow count of mail-in ballot 4. She defeated Republican Martha McSally, and flipped 5 the seat held by retiring Republican Jeff Flake 6.



1 militant
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
2 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
3 democrat
n.民主主义者,民主人士;民主党党员
  • The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
  • About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后,他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
4 ballot
n.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
  • The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
5 flipped
轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 ); 按(开关); 快速翻转; 急挥
  • The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转,撞毁了。
  • The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。
6 flake
v.使成薄片;雪片般落下;n.薄片
  • Drain the salmon,discard the skin,crush the bones and flake the salmon with a fork.将鲑鱼沥干,去表皮,粉碎鱼骨并用餐叉子将鱼肉切成小薄片状。
  • The paint's beginning to flake.油漆开始剥落了。
学英语单词
actual consent
acute nonsuppurative otitis media
address operator
afghanistan-pakistan
agress
alkaline cleaning
at symbol
bickley
bijiangensis
biserial crochet
blodite
boiling plate
bright region
burdock root extract
can vacuum tester
change of variation
chronic funiculitis
cliqued
coleridgean
congdons shop
consumptive credit
counter drain
countrypeople
currency style
cyrtarachne yunoharuensis
daily turnover
digestive surgery
dry deposit flourescent penetrant
energumen
epidiabase
family Thraupidae
film coagulating speed
firebreaks
flower chafer
fucked me over
future sales
Gasparyan
greatline
gum deposit
halberd-shaped
heating curve determination apparatus
hemisulphates
hidness
kiawe
Ligaliga, Pulau
macuxi
mad-dog weed
make a quick exit
marginal expense
moribundity
motor-cyclist
naze
ocular hypertelorism
open-air concert-hall
ortedrine
Pakkading
perforator slip
phylum chaetognathas
pilocyte
piston-type cylinder
posterolateral groove
predial servitude
progenial
radio-cassette player
reserve system
roller conveyer table
S.Res.
sabercat
Salamonie River
sand dome
scattering stand
she is no spring chicken
shell longitudinal
shut-off head
sienese
spazzs
speed by RPM
stability threshold
star magnolia
state space model
storage compacting
strategic importance
sylvana
take a place on one's way
take an aversion for
talks back
tearsheet
technical workers with specific grades
tracheoblennorrea
tsinling axis
uncontrollable diesel generator set
unitatis
unnaturalistically
unpervaded
update memory
vasa mucosa
vehicle capacity
william shaksperes
Wireless-B
wood
yess
zur