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
allyl sulfocyanate
Anchor fouled by the flukes!
asplenium billotiis
Ba Maw
baobabs
basibranchiostegal
Bay-g-5421
be differ from
be imprisoned
Betts process
bigelow
blistering colllodion
bottle grass
brushes by
buhl saw
bullitt county
bursaphelenchus xylophilus
cartographic data base
caryophyllea
certainty
checking fixture
Chelydoin
Chinese bomb virus
co2s
crewing
docking radar
double helical spurgear
drinkathon
drowned valley
early germ
ECMEX
endleofan
euler square
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
everflowing
foreign currency bills payable
fuel selector valve
Galton's delta
genus Alocasia
gibberish total
go fishing
ground nut fiber
helical-coil type heat exchanger
Hemitragus
hour counter lock spring
incardinating
inclined guage
include columns
input message
insurance share
intervales
Ipronal
jaegers
kazaronovski
labone
leading wheels
link mnemonic method
make oneself pleasant
marsh ore
mathematicism
megacephaly
mesaba
mesophase carbon micro bead
micromanagers
moptis
Namaponda
no-spark
non vibrator ignition system
nuclear reactors
oissels
Papilionaceae
papyraceus
paralysis agitans syndrome
Pasdar
positive convergence
prefacile
private telephone
protected trade
provosty
rated service speed
reel gripper jaws
remote subport
reticulated ganglia
retrocollic spasm
right-handed machine
ring lighting
scintiphoto
single anode rectifier
singly-fed repulsion motor
slot name
sperma-
sporobolomyces carnicolor
springing away
summary justic
thermocouple vacuum gage
turitto
vertical Drilling machines
whytche
winesburg, ohio
wing-down
wrecker's yard
wrecking truck