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


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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
acetone bodies
adgenic cyst
adrenal corticoids
amount of investment
analog superconduction magnetometer
antheridia
at the pit't brink
autotrim clutch
balisong
Ban Don Ngiu
battery polarity
beamwork
beloff
BNMS
booked call
Bridlington Bay
business rule
capitalist planned economy
channel contraction
computer, laptop
conquinamine
control observation
cornea plana
coxy
cross-fertilization of culture
cross-legged progression
Diapensiaceae
dichromate value test
Diplopody
double layer contact filter
drain water piping
early modern
electronic attenuator
Euterpe oleracea
Fire Suppression Equipment
follicular arrest
freeing lung and relieving asthma
gibrat's law
have one's points
high expansion
hyperbolic Riemann surface
imandrite
imidoendopeptidase
instrumental judgement of value
inversion tetrad
jacket steam
joint set
kebede
lingual fossae
mean of delivery
metrology grating
miaoued
microscopic dust particles
minute glass
molecular fraction
monadic functor
Mountville
multifoil
naphthotetrazines
nitor
noggings
nonloopback
not have two halfpennies to rub together
ombuoside
onespace
pariente
penetrating ulcer of stomach
per-second
polemicians
prematrix
primal hordes
Pyapon
rail-drilling machine
receive a jab in the arm
record address file
remember oneself
restart request
running surface of wheeltrack
Saint-Gabriel
Scrutonian
sea surface height remote sensing
statement of the income and expenditure
stockleigh
Stundist
Sucragel
Tarsian
tension compensator
the middle east peace process
Thermotogaceae
thiol isomer
time-overcurrent protection
topping people
transmission efficientcy
trimstone
truffle yarn
urotrope
vahid
vein-type structure
Vermaaklikheid
villanellist
wall pressure tapping
zinc-magnesium galvanizing alloy