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
accrued income taxes
Alba Fucens
alkyl nitrate
b-string
be kept perfectly
between layers
blackleaded
bodywork length
boxfish
brider
by-roads
cavernae corporis spongiosi penis
chemistry in ecology
confirming judgement
copy choice thoery
cork float
cumuli
diaphragmatic pleurisy
diffracted beam
dinner-parties
directory position
discipline-baseds
disjunctive proposition
engravers copper
environment disruption
Espevik
expiscator
expression analysis
fire up
flouncingly
fluoxetine hydrocholoride
frost hollow
fundament
gape-seed
gnathostomulid
greenidea shimae
horse-radishes
hypochromatic
industrial sewerage
intermediate longitudinal girder
internal auditory meatus
irrotational vortex
k.y
Kechror
Knocklayd
loading network
MARH
microbial immunology
mo-ree
moiraine
monady
Multe-Pak-4
multiple-baseline
mushroom body
news desk
noncivilian
nonmeningitic
orientable combinatorial manifold
Ounissoui
parton distribution function
pay respect to
phenological division
play-by-play
postdrilling
printed circuit
pseudodifferential operator
public transit system
pulmonary compliance
Rajneeshees
record target
reductive benzylation
risinghills
Saskatonians
schwannitis
sea-bottom
secondary gangrene
security support provider interface
self polarizing relay
sentimentalising
separated flame
slab synchro
sole arbitrator
specimen cooling holder
star coupling
straight wheel plate
striate body
Sui dynasty
sun projector
swinging fork type bale loader
synthetic sandalwood oil
ternatus
the Louisiana Territory
top steadier
unnearable
vermiphobia
versene(EDTA)
waxwork
what the hey!
wide gate generator
Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass
Your guess is as good as mine.
zoroastrianisms