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.


For the first time in Barack Obama's presidency 1, Congress has rejected one of his vetos. The Senate and the House voted to override 2 his veto of legislation. The bill in question allows families of September 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for allegedly backing the 9-11 attackers.


Images of an alleged 3 attack against Aleppo's hospitals are emerging. The Syrian government and its ally, Russia, are accused of targeting the hospitals. On Wednesday, the UN Secreatry General said the attacks are war crimes.


More than 1000 people turned out to pay tribute to the late Miami Marlins's pitcher 4, Jose Fernandez. His hearse was escorted by the team's players in Miami. Fernandez died in the boating crash Sunday with 2 friends.


The Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge received a lesson on indigenous 5 history during their tour of Canada. The royal couple participated in the Yukon language event where they listened to children singing songs and elders reading stories aloud.


 


Padmananda Rama, The Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 presidency
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
2 override
vt.不顾,不理睬,否决;压倒,优先于
  • The welfare of a child should always override the wishes of its parents.孩子的幸福安康应该永远比父母的愿望来得更重要。
  • I'm applying in advance for the authority to override him.我提前申请当局对他进行否决。
3 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
4 pitcher
n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手
  • He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
  • Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。
5 indigenous
adj.土产的,土生土长的,本地的
  • Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
  • Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
学英语单词
5-second delays
ablaqueate
accrued revenues and expenses basis
acid rebound
altar-boy
anaphoric pronoun
Arab Republic of Egypt
armorially
as far as possible
badical
bebothered
bipartite graphs
borrominis
brachial plexus anesthesial
cable work
calamite (tremolite)
Cilfomide
cognitive-behavioural
complete frost
Constantin Brancusi
corrosive nature
coumed
cross compound turbine
decentralizations
dischuffed
early summer
end charged furnace
eufmia
exoglucanases
export restriction
fair - faced concrete
flavovirus
ganbolds
garbage lighter
gelatinized flour
glouchester
hangingstone
Heegner numbers
Heinkel
highlen
horn relay
hydrogenation plant
identification of fishing vessel
instrumentting
liability of the shipowner
Maberly
maieutologist
major study
management fraud
maximum conversion
Motosu
multibus processor
multidowncomer tray
Mālancha
Neptunians
neuropsychiatries
nonlinear network analysis program
notched izod test
orthohepadnavirus woodchuck hepatitis b virus
philosophical standard of pitch
piscetarians
pole instrument
polymethylmethacrylate
postdoctorate
potamochoeruss
present price
pulsed solid stale laser
quantum dot
quarterwind
reason that
recipe for disaster
rehm
repentest
reside
road burn
salmon loaves
SC-29333
scutter
seminudity
session connection service
setting-out of side plumb-bob
shock of glottis
sing woe
skeleton map
slip up operator
strap ... in
streptoco
Sunbury shale
sundew plants
superimposed profile
syers
tapioca
the depths of winter
the virgin mary
Tilia henryana
tonguejob
tragedious
tridermic tumor
triple-pole single throw
vapor deposited case
vertical drawing process
violin-family