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
acceptance supra-protest
advanced software environment
antifading antenna
Arabian Plate
arterio-dialysis
athyroid
attrition test
b. m. thyreohyoidei
balloon filter
benziodoxole
boil-eddy
bushites
cancrinite nordsjoite
ceramic-based
cercospora hyalospora
circumscribing square
clamshell brake
coaxial line oscillator
cockpit atmospheric pressure regulation system
collision stress
commutated doppler
couson
crurotarsans
decutient
delimiting period
dislocation formation
djp
e1
Edward River
erwinia tracheiphila (e.f.smith) holland
extension blocks
Fludara
foramina rotundum
foxtail grass
get around to sth
green revolution?
hackensack
hamonic mixer
hemispherical shell
home shopping
hydroxypetachloride
incrementals
indirectness
joistless
kosar
Kyburg paradox
language ability code
Lanlate
length-to-diameter(ratio)
low pressure flame
low priority traffic
mail virus
medical-student
mesophylic
method of calling
method of orthogonal projection
Meynet's nodes
microengine
mimeography
Mont Cenis, L.du
Neilston
nettle-leaved bellflower
oblique-swimming triplefin
package tours
party election
Pedomicrobium ferrugineum
perispermum
piezoelectric ceramic tuner
planetary monsoon
plastic art
power window
propaquizafop
qutab
radial route
RDPS
realismo
replugged
rondeaux
sales executive
script language
shore sth under the carpet
skift
source level interactive debugger
specialized foreign-trade corporation
spheric conductor
subqualities
sulfocarbamide
sweet flavo(u)r
taa-
telecounter
terminal assessment
tie-line interchange
total pressure of fan
tractor drive shaft
tral
trimerthadione
twifold
unaltered rock
uncapitalise
unmaximizes
wheelable
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