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
a world of make-believe
abandoned track
acid sludge asphalt
adversarial politics
air boiler
analytic estimating method
animal-skins
annual usage dollars
arborets
asbestos-cement pipe
ayanamsa
azotase
bath nitriding
Belvedere Torso
bilingual alignment
blabbed
bokite
buccal tablets
caffeespresso
carry out one's bat
cash disbursement voucher
celestial line of position
constant current anodizing process
control airport
Country Fund
creep drinker
Cressona
cross-media pollution
darksiders
deuce it
ding-a-lings
dipleurula
distance swimming
DLE (data link escape character)
dynamic mechanical test
edge abrasion
electrical line of force
emulsifying capacity
ensourge
eyeball protector
fast packet multiplexing
fire -resisting paint
flazasulfuron
folkie
fore-sin
genus Pygoscelis
grinding tester for fur
griph
kallaite (turquois)
kitschy
Lacroix-St-Ouen
ligg. intercuneiformia interossea
lowest common multiple
man-machine interaction
management section
metrified
minimoon
mirror-metal electrode
months of sundays
morozova
Māhānpur
neosynephrin
no load current
non-cupative will
nonpsychosis
nurudea shiraii
Oise River
orthometric height
owled
pine-cone
pocketknives
preprandial
psn.
puddephats
pusateri
push-pull shunting
qilin
Queenist
resultant
rheotaxes
Saint Peterberg
satisfiabilty
saturnine cachexia
ship-broker
shop-in
small middle dorsal metatarsal vein
solid electrolyte cell
speckledness
stirring motion
subject of knowledge
synthesis of labeled compound
tax free imports
television frequency deviation indicator
try conclusions with
tunnel arch
umpteen
undeferred
unsaturated synthetic rubber
unshamefulness
Vanier, Georges P.
vasocongestion
weld toe