时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(十一)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. President-elect Donald Trump 1 is back in New York, taking meetings at Trump Tower,  with former rivals and long-time allies. This comes a day after he indicated he's worked out agreements to fill major posts in his administration. 


2. Protesters and police clashed again near construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline 2. Authorities are defending their use of water douse 3 on protesters over the weekend, during a skirmish in below-freezing weather. 


3. Pope Francis is stressing mercy in allowing all priests to absolve 4 the faithful of the "Grave Sin" of  abortion. In a letter made public on Monday, the Pope said he was extending indefinitely the special permission he granted during the holy year of mercy, which just ended. 


4. And a group of musicians played music composed by holocaust 5 victims in the halls of Jerusalem museum. One of the musicians said the music has been played elsewhere in the past, but staging in among the different holocaust displaces, held a special significance. 


Suzanne Yee Gaffney, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 pipeline
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
3 douse
v.把…浸入水中,用水泼;n.泼洒
  • Men came with buckets of water and began to douse the flames.人们提来一桶桶水灭火。
  • He doused the flames with a fire extinguisher.他用灭火器把火焰扑灭。
4 absolve
v.赦免,解除(责任等)
  • I absolve you,on the ground of invincible ignorance.鉴于你不可救药的无知,我原谅你。
  • They agree to absolve you from your obligation.他们同意免除你的责任。
5 holocaust
n.大破坏;大屠杀
  • The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
  • Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀,因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
学英语单词
abs(absolute)
aftermath-time
Altenmarkt an der Alz
amasi
arminian churches
at this stage
axonompetry
back alley news
back masking
Baikanthpur
block making machine
carrying initiating signal
carvenone
cellosoive
cephalitis meningica
chemoluminescence method
clear sailing
collagen fiber
come-on line
contained spring
cumulative precipitation
differential distance
draw knob
dummy in
earth-grine
elastic macrofibrils
electro arc contact machining
exterior extent
failure diagnosis
fixed contact
flexible light pipe
genus oncidiums
Gosaldo
gumline
gytt
H chain
hoechstetter
hotpink
human organ
hydrocenosis
hyptiotes affinis
imbrices
impis
jensons
jetting tool
lemonwoods
magnetic flux densities
major course
methylarbutin
mis-sware
Mssbauer effect
Mtakuja
nationsbank
natural circulation system
network appliances
nevertheless
nightingales
oatmeals
oesophagojejunostomy
office stationery
oilengine
on tow
optimum reflux ratio
Osharovo
overprinting fold
Oyré
peristaltic pump
pessary
phony mine
podo-
Posterisan
prime-aged
proven track record
public volume
Rami lobi superioris
reducing urination for preventing enuresis
remirroring
rheumatic fever
right of premogeniture
Roy Jenkins
rural population
sintered powder metal
snow slush
speciality of criminality
spinode
square caliper
St-Laurent-de-la-Salanque
stratified single-stage cluster sampling
structural escarpment
terminal control area (tca)
thistles and thorns
time-savings
tinting
transformed flow net
triped
trotternish
underequipped
undertrials
uniform force
untreated sewage
Westmorland County
yaranga