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
A/D converter resolution
Abyan
acoustic effects
amaethons
Anglo-americans
Baundal
benzimidazolone
blaw
block character
Budrio
caleroes
Caliphization
catch-all provision
cese
chaumitien series
Chǒngp'yǒng-gun
close support
cloven hooves
date/time of transaction
dragonfly
drugger
dry fruit
dumping fuel
dynamic photopoint check
ecarte
embreaded
emulation software
entry requirements
erbumine
eutelolecithal
evaluation standard
extrorse
fades-in
feldmans
fort union
freezing point lowering
gene overlap
geographic range
getz
gmt or gmt
go backpacking
gyro case
heptamerons
hula hooped
inherent system
inwet
irregular indorsement
Leizhou Peninsula
levogram
light version
local network management function
log operation on water
maidenship
make sb's blood freeze
mallotus villosus
matriarchal society
measurement for active control
microscopic counting
mid-range
migratorial
MQC
multimegaton
nationality act
nominal values
noninteractive system
old lag
on the domestic front
oxepine
palembus dermestoides
Peter Martyr, Saint
pleni-power
pliers for radio mechanics and electricians
pneumatolytic differentiation
polygonometric work
prunus virginianas
Prussophile
pseudotrachea
real ratio of international exchange
reductasic
rehearsal flat
Salvia divinorum
send through
shabeen
speed pulley
stratigraphic correlation diagram
style fashion goods
sublocation
Teleac
tennenbaum
terrestrial vertebrate ecology
TIU (tape identification unit)
tnymol ciodide
Tretiy Internatsional
Trikeri
twin-hull flying boat
two-tone detector
upper-grade
vaginosis
wake-up primitive
washwater
wholesale business
wire pistol