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
alpha-reductase
ambulacras
amyotaxia
atttenuate
authority vested in the people
ballsiness
barfuls
batch flour
bending curvature
bleacherss
Bosh-Omori seismograph
box turtle
braciole
brainstormed
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bscs green version
business affair
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cepharadione
cesium iodochloride
combo breakers
connectionlessmode network service
Corydalis amplisepala
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crop eugenics
cylinder bank
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duration of twilight
ectopic parathyroid in thymus
electronic body temperature balancer
em space
English sole
esthesioneuroblastoma
eutectoid alloy
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filler metering feeder
flywheel-type alternator
form-drag
Funtana
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general communications interface
guarinoite
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harmonic waves
helianthrone
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Penning ionization spectroscopy
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Reaganite
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right to harvest
rowdiest
seete
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st lawrence river
Steinmetz's constant
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tectono-eustatism
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valach
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