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
alignment connector
alternate recipient
amputated limb
anabin
Average Cost Pricing Rule
background mass spectrum
bankrupts
beef man
belt magnetic separator
blancer
broken stone hardcore
Broquies
bubble orientation
burlow-beanie
canopy reflectance
capraldehyde
carborundum wheel
cohomotopy group
color theme
completely skew symmetric tensor
control of materials
core wash
craniopharyngiomata
cut - off frequency
Dactylaria
damp (-proof) course
Dermocarpaceae
desuperheating agent
die wall surface
diphosphoglycerate shunt
disgonic colony
eave (s) spout
electronic software distribution
end condition
eupatorium maculatums
foreign object
gain-phase diagram
gas cracked
glaciofluvial
glutinic acid
Great Migration
hi-spot
high strength steel washer
hippiaters
Ilex chingiana
infamized
input primitive
instantiations
integration solution
intial front bevel
judices
Kirchhoff theory
knightress
Lamothe-Cassel
lattice defects
Lublinite
machine binding
management server
moi
natural velocity
navigation safety communication
norbiotin
North Baltimore
notarized
numerous hairs
object oriented analysis and design
ocular sheath (or periorbit)
othniel
outward thrust
oxidation pond process
phasetitration
philagra montana
piler bed
processing priority
pure cost of circulation
rabul
raincoast
Rhus typhina
rotograyure paper
San Antonio Oeste
schulz gage
shotted
slatts
soffione (soffioni)
southern crosses
special repair truck
spiritualised
steric-crosslinking arrangement
strong absorption
succinonitrite
swankalishious
third ovary
three-monthlies
track irregularity index
transaction acquirer
two-needle overlap
unmortgageable
villenie
volatility of memory
volitation
wolf's bane
yone