时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(九)月


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This is AP News Minute.


The Charlotte police chief said officers gave a black man multiple warnings to drop a handgun before one of them opened fire and killed him. But the man's family says he was unarmed. Tensions remained high after protesters clashed with police officers overnight.


Hillary Clinton said the killing 1 of African Americans by police officers is unbearable 2 and needs to become intolerable. Donald Trump 3 courted black voters in Cleveland, saying he was "very troubled" by the killing of a black man by a white officer in Oklahoma. But he was introduced by boxing promoter Don King who used a racial slur 4 as he made the case for supporting Trump.


Russia and the US blamed each other for Syria's failing cease-fire as the UN Security Council took up the civil war. Secrectary of State John Kerry called for the grounding of all aircraft over parts of Syria to allow for humanitarian 5 aid.


Dozens of dogs salons 6, boutiques and purebred puppy sellers are spring up across Havana as Cuba's growing upper-middle class is developing an interest in fancy dogs. The growing business is creating hundreds of jobs and some small reminders 7 of a widening income gap.


Noreen Nasir, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 unbearable
adj.不能容忍的;忍受不住的
  • It is unbearable to be always on thorns.老是处于焦虑不安的情况中是受不了的。
  • The more he thought of it the more unbearable it became.他越想越觉得无法忍受。
3 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
4 slur
v.含糊地说;诋毁;连唱;n.诋毁;含糊的发音
  • He took the remarks as a slur on his reputation.他把这些话当作是对他的名誉的中伤。
  • The drug made her speak with a slur.药物使她口齿不清。
5 humanitarian
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
6 salons
n.(营业性质的)店( salon的名词复数 );厅;沙龙(旧时在上流社会女主人家的例行聚会或聚会场所);(大宅中的)客厅
  • He used to attend to his literary salons. 他过去常常去参加他的文学沙龙。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Conspiracy theories about Jewish financiers were the talk of Paris salons. 犹太金融家阴谋论成为巴黎沙龙的话题。 来自互联网
7 reminders
n.令人回忆起…的东西( reminder的名词复数 );提醒…的东西;(告知该做某事的)通知单;提示信
  • The film evokes chilling reminders of the war. 这部电影使人们回忆起战争的可怕场景。
  • The strike has delayed the mailing of tax reminders. 罢工耽搁了催税单的投寄。
学英语单词
18-hydroxydesoxycorticosterone
anterior pyramidal cataract
arsenical autimony fahlore
auxiliary flux
bill account
bitter herbs
body scab
booby hatches
bronchiolar spasm
cabin cruiser
calanthea arguraea koern.
callianthemus
Camarron
can only do
caving bank
CB-1932
clip-holding forceps
conduit type power plant
continental breakfast
deficiency disorder
deltaic succession
developing bacteroidal tissue
draping bed
elangwe
european unity
fore-and-aft balance
foreleader
Freissinières
fuckboy
genus chinchonas
gnawingly
gravity shunting
handals
harleysville
hit the road
home theater projector
hydraulic-jack
hydromyelomeningocele
idiopathic chloranemia
inhigitor
interpretative subroutine
James Merritt Ives
kapiolani
khandala
Knik Glacier
Kulullī
laser output characteristic
life performance
lloyd-davies
lumbar sympathetic ganglion
macvector
magnetomechanical effects
maximum cutting capacity
melchs alloy
membrane stack
microprocessor assembly language
monadian
Mopipi
multi-purpose obstetric table
nature of taxation
no-ball
non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment
nonimpact thermal printer
Nuffield Foundation
operating zone
ossa sesamoidia pedis
pachulski
paddleboards
partelesse
penetrating shower
perilenticular
plexus pancreaticus
preinjector
publish-subscribe
pulley support
put throw off some one's mask
quay-sides
ray tracing formulas
Raykovo
regeneration by groups
relative hepatic dullness area
sangris
schedule rotation sstem
semiconductor memory circuits
sermonets
shaped profile milling cutter
sheetrocks
shisur (ash shisar)
small-craft
soil characteristics
spaghetti charts
sturmia oculata
summer sown crop
sympatol
tool crest
Uta, Wai
uteroplacental
Wallace-Diarmond's methods
water strider
weekes
wolper
zygomorphic