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
acceleration tolerance
administrative procedure act of 1946
aloo pies
altiazide
amino acidemia
ammonium phthalamate
anionic flotation
assignment of marketing right
Bhawanipatna
big kahunas
boilermakers
box families
bwith
Calamus yunnanensis
campused
cannabin tannate
canvas back
Cassamba
cock's-foot
colo(u)r grades of rosin
composite functions
containeth
crapified
crossed electrophoresis
cyberworkers
dastardized
density wave theory
Dermacentroxenus
devil dog
displacement behavio(u)r
dytiscids
emanated
entry box
ephedra sinicas
epimorphin
ethyl chloride
express assumpsit
floor trading system
folliculitis exulcerans serpiginosa nasi
foolery
Frisches
fusarium oxysporum asparagi
gabriel daniel fahrenheits
Gary Glitters
grounded signal lamp
guestbooks
hardware dealer
heat of ablation
Heller operation
high-wire
hyptis suaveolens poit
Injuria non praesumitur.
inpadocs
internal revenue agent
internet suites software
invocator
it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
leebo
Lyakhovka
Masasi
molded-fabric bearing
Moselsürsch
multiple tense programming
nonconsensus
not-so-sweet
oblate symmetric top molecule
oscilloscope camera
petty cash book
podonectria aurantii
postal receipt
prided
quasi neutrality
rana clamitanss
ranunculus chinensis bunge
scheler
secondary line
selection switch
sensory process
seventy-
sheet rectifier
sine of the third order
sn-coupled solution styrene-butadiene rubber (sn-s-sbr)
speed ratio on constant power
stop short at
sub-loop
supplementary control
surface availability of catalyst
swim-hole
syntaxy
talaromyces emersonii
term space
tetraplex
toss up
toxanemia
trenchantness
tripropanolamine
Ulanova
unitely
Walton-on-Thames
white marlins
xiphydriid