时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(七)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute.


1. Prosecutors 1 have dropped the remaining charges against Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, bringing an end to the case with hours conviction. Gray was a black man who was critically injured in the back of a police van in April,2015. 


2. A judge says John Hinckley,Jr who attempted to assassinate 2 president Ronald Reagan will be allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live full time in Virginia. The ruling comes more than 35 years after the March,13th 1981 shooting outside a Washington hotel, in which Reagan and three others were injured. 


3. Pope Francis arrived in Poland on Wednesday, where he will spend five days meeting with young Catholics and visiting Auschwitz, as well as some Poland's most important Catholic shrines 3. It's the first time that Francis has visited the East European nation. 


4. And two circus acrobats 4 tied the knot on a tightrope 5 during a performance in Houston. The couple got married 30 feet off the ground Tuesday, during a Ringling brother's and Barnum & Bailey show. 


Emily Roseman, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
2 assassinate
vt.暗杀,行刺,中伤
  • The police exposed a criminal plot to assassinate the president.警方侦破了一个行刺总统的阴谋。
  • A plot to assassinate the banker has been uncovered by the police.暗杀银行家的密谋被警方侦破了。
3 shrines
圣地,圣坛,神圣场所( shrine的名词复数 )
  • All three structures dated to the third century and were tentatively identified as shrines. 这3座建筑都建于3 世纪,并且初步鉴定为神庙。
  • Their palaces and their shrines are tombs. 它们的宫殿和神殿成了墓穴。
4 acrobats
n.杂技演员( acrobat的名词复数 );立场观点善变的人,主张、政见等变化无常的人
  • I was always fascinated by the acrobats at the circus. 我总是着迷于马戏团里的杂技演员。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The acrobats' performance drew forth applause from the audience. 杂技演员的表演博得了观众的掌声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 tightrope
n.绷紧的绳索或钢丝
  • The audience held their breath as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.杂技演员走钢丝时,观众都屏住了呼吸。
  • The tightrope walker kept her balance by holding up an umbrella.走钢丝的演员举着一把伞,保持身体的均衡。
学英语单词
a priori limitation
acute primary pulmonary abscess
aland island disease
alkyl suifur acid
apostemated
average sth out
Beyciler
brain electrical activity
cantillating
capital repairs
capucci
chill perushable
cinnamon bears
closed matte
cluster controller operator
copper-nickel-zinc alloys
cryoglobulins
damage cargo clerk
direct cut chopper
effervescing potion
electromagnetic isotope separator
Eliade, Mircea
encloud
entrance roadway
euhemerizing
ex customs compound
express boiler
field suppressing resistor
fire-worshipper
flossies
folding saws
foreign purchases
front-wheel brake drum grease guard
Fryazino
gnawed by rabbits
heart shape thimble
hedonistic calculus
Hobbesian
hydraulic lime
IBG
indigenous psychology
individual package delivery
inside-deviation
laboratory glassware
Lamprocysteae
linear time variant channel
lipedema
lump-sum acquisition
m.d
masking tone
mega-sheds
merthyrs
microsoftware
microstone
Mimexina
Mitchell, Margaret
Muskat intercept
nanotechnological
natrium aceticum
neurosurgically
own the concept
package count
pedware
perocephalus
phase surface
phylloteles pictipennis
piston rod cross head
pocession
poythress
QHD
range analysis
redgra
refrigeration container
royal proclamation
rust-belt
Rāzān, Kūh-e
satin weave
scoutmistresses
seakeeping capability
secretary of state for education
shipboard gantry crane
Sillian
skywagons
soft machinery steel
sparking distance
steam beer
steam turbo-alternator
stellar winds
storm-proof window
supplemental ridge
tax loss
treason-felony
universally jointed shaft
upsnatch
Vaggatem
ventilator blue
veratryl alcohol
voussoir key
Wakanda
wase
whisky-jacks
white-throated tinamous