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
absorber coupling
actuator
ADC, A/D converter
additional post
aladan
amphoric resonance
Anemone demissa
aplosyenite
audience rating
biomass liquefaction
blunt nosed body
brachionus forficula
color television
craythorne
crucible steel moldboard
cyclone separation
damaged Thoroughfare and Conception Vessels
data construction
degw
dinoseb
ecosystem type
fascisti
finished product
fixed order quantity
Franklin Institute
frowsiest
gamiest
go into liquidation
half solid floor
heating resistance
height of high tide
hexacontane
hexahydro-salicylic acid
hornotine
hot-driven rivet
houda
interrogative sentences
Introdouche
lapilli mound
library-user
lobular glomerulonephritis
long list
manganese trichloride
marbofloxacin
maritane
methylcholanthrenes
net of canals and ditches
new political economy of development
nitrification inhibitor
patrollers
Peltovuoma
peve
pipiles
plasma oscillation analysis
pressure and vacuum release valve
pyrotechnian
radical operation
record of cash disbursement
renner
right circular cylinder coordinate
rough board
Rowell.
safety communications equipment
self-consciously
Senekjie's medium
serenader
shoot craps
sideways extrusion
sing the praises of sb
single-length normalization
sinoradimella costata
snail-shell
Solvay, Ernest
spadger
spatial noise
strata mucosum membranae tympani
t head bolt
tax on slaughtering animals
Tazlina Glacier
tenomyoplasty
third-degree relatives
thymus glands
trimoxamine
turuq
uncurably
under no obligation
univorous
unmanned rocket
unsuit
upper Ordovician series
urts
UTRR (University of Teheran Research Reactor)
vajazzles
vibration and shock
view-finder
viewing prism
vincis
wee-weed
well-penned
xerosis of conjunctiva
zanthoxyli pericarpium