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
accounts receivable others
acid fuchsin stain
additional allocations
agalmatolites
Alcian Blue
apws
armament vision line
artifice
atmospheric vacuum distillation unit
bauges (les bauges)
be admitted into
bearing number
bicrenate
boase
bridal make-up
burn to the ground
cabots
carbon dioxide system in seawater
chromatogenous
cooperative research program
counterflow vibrating screw feeder
crack arrest
Curcuma wenyujin
cuspidal edge
cyan halide
delay-action circuit-breaker
descartess
direct firing evaporator
discepts
dodecapeptide
dominate node tree
EBMZ
endophoric
first futtock
fortune cookie
gubernatorial
guichards
haemodromometer
Heupelzen
hitherside
hot shrinkage
Houttuynia cordata Thunb.
hydraulic riveter
in circumstances
Jupia
kabl
karcase
knick zone
ledaloyl
left-hand drives
linear content
lug length
main ejector
make a turn
measure microphone
molegrips
nightglow
onopordons
optical fiber connection
outstart
ox-boy
palma
Pathfinder Res.
pinnaceous
plagiomnium succulentum
postponable costs
predisponent
pressure node
primary cell culture
pseudo cross-bedding
public-lands
Quonset hut
RMCH
rotary brush cutter
rusells
saboed
sale and leaseback
security gain or loss
sinneresses
slope-controlled arc wilding power source
small airway function
soutie
sphere-gap voltmeter
spring rockers
squeezekin
strong noise
superexcited state
supervisory measure
tailing column
the Council of Economic Advisers
thermostable opsonin test
time-varying set of patterns
tutsi-dominateds
twist someon's arm
two-drum crab
underwhelmingly
ungnement
vein of kidney
vert space
vietnam block
wind power industry
worthan