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 regular banquet
a-contact
a. canalis pterygoidei
accumulator watch
ageing test of oil
Ainsliaea fulvipes
air survey
all over bar the shouting
amethystoglossum
amuse gueule
Arges
Asa-yama
auricular seta
Bad Hersfeld
bar grizzly
base jumping
basis anesthesia
Be there or be square
beaverism
beta-ray monitoring
bohlander
bosslike
cache cramming
children's allowance
clogged-up
composite layering control circuit
condenser discharge
cotterpinning
cricothyroid ligament
cutterbar attachment
d.bard
dangerous primises
dealing in securities
dentin-pulp
diachronicity
diasonics
dobriches
electric device
equal time doctrine
faired cable
free movement under...
Futuroscope
generalized algebraic translator
generic identifier
heart palpitation
hearthward
Hemitelia
home branch
ik method
in recent years
jkt
karamira
Kashmirites
Klaaswaal
knuckle-pin angle
Korats
Krizevci
loamy texture
lopostomatous
Luzskiy Rayon
manis pentadactyla pentadactyla
megabase(Mb)
miners' headache
mist eliminator
moussorgskies
mutual obligation
nanohydrogels
neoeriocitrin
non-breaking space
nonserfs
noordwijkerhouts
oscillating plate
overhaul schedule
pad foundation
penetration price
pneumatic electric relay
post-hoc
pressure in vacuum system
quasi-rational language
rate of depletion
regeneration bud
removable component
roll your own
Romance languages
screw the nut
semi-spherical tip
serampores
signment
simonist
stackframes
step ladder
store interleaving
sulfmethemoglobin
São Felipe, Sa.de
ULIRGs
unchartedness
Venturi engine
voice recognition unit
waste reclamation
wear-resistant property
yield-time diagram
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