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
'Ajlūn
account on transfer transactions
acoustic homing
aerophotogrammetric lens
amen cadences
and thing
angora layette
at the top of one's voice
back-to-back with
backwater valve
Baginton
ball stone
bang-on
biomedical fluid mechanics
black elephantiasis
black market price survey
bushing type condenser
byekeshevo (bekeshevo)
CIDST
circuit switching delay
clasp gold
cloakedly
complementary bipolar
convey assembly port
coreanus
corneoscleral punch
crystal control.
cursor address register
deliberate attack
douceur
electric-arc welding machine
emulsion number
environmental rapist
evaporator water treatment
Faulkton
filter box
finger nut
floppy disc system
forepeak tank
four boat lift net
garbers
genetic diseases
geopressure geothermal resources
gozle
green corns
half-naked
half-retinal
Hilbert programme
human blood
hylergography
intermediate handing
interrupt pending
jewellery armoire
katharsis
keto-acidoses
kilocycle per second
Lionist
Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant
logical predicate
love shaft
lubin
marantic endocarditis
mechanical performance
merismopedia glauca
mitzies
Moresby
Mouchoir Bk.
Mr Spock
multishirked
Municipal Convertible
Murat's fremitus
nervous-humoral regulation
neuritises
neutron logs
notification
over-stock
overall project
Palmerian
pinpointable
posterio-occlusion
pronograde
pulse polarizer
radar azimuth converter
ration allowance
return riser
run-of-the-mine
safety responsibility regulations
SAP Planned Delivery Time
SDMX
shadowood
silting bed
starter gear shifting fork
stopwater
Strozza
tangential couple
torrential flood erosion
trap-tufa
tributoxyethylphosphate
tupid
unvariable expense
vertical speed indicator
yp extent.