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
Abbotsley
airless injection
alcoholic intolerance
allworthy
anticommuted
as numberless as the sands
asides
axially magnetized stator
bakeout degassing clamp
bar and tube straightening machine
be supplied with
bidermann
boat stretcher
bock kiln
Boksburg
bronchohemorrhagia
Burda, C.
Burjī
cab seat
ceratium symmetricum coarctatum
cholaxin
cioccolata
co-latitude
convert to
economic and social research council
eellike
extinction index
fast-scan
figuresome
flask board
frozen puddings
fusible calculus
gas house tar
global concept
graphite gneiss
ground emitter transistor amplifier
hairpin dune
hamano
heart-lung unit
hepp
himu
impatiens sultani hook. f.
incrementation memory
indirect contamination
indirect observations
individual lives
iodo-mercury-benzene
isosyllabic
kingslayer
Kivik
lift the embargoor
long-eared owl
Marcinelle
marine glue
Megatrichophyton
megina
microprogram control functions
mine construction survey
misrepresentation of law
monitoring aids
mooring to two anchors
multiple uplinks
neuritic plaque
order naiadaless
penwomanship
pit-bottom
platinum cone
pool schemes
Portable document software
pushing about
radial reynolds number
Reinschospora
reserve seed for planting
reverse mold
Rhombifera
sch?tzellite (sylvine)
schedule for payment
scheduling policy
scissors fault
signiphorids
six-zero
skin and boness
slat feeder
Soputan, Gunung
speciffic heat consumption
sq.in.
stratmann
subcollege
surface management
sutrisnoes
tenualosa reevesii
the constitution
through the anger of the moment
time-tables
total magnetic field
velbenamine
vibration velocity level
vitascopes
watercolo(u)r pigment
wheel pin
yayasan