时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Republican vice 1 presidential candidate Mike Pence says he'll be back on the campaign trail on Friday. Pence's campaign plane slipped off a runway while landing in New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday night. Nobody was hurt.


At least 117 people were arrested in North Dakota on Thursday when authorities ousted 2 protesters from private land in the path of the Dakota Access oil pipeline 3. The pipeline's route is near an Indian reservation, and activists 4 say it could threaten the water supply.


7 ranchers charged in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refugee in Oregon were all found not guilty of conspiracy 5 charges on Thursday. Group leader Ammon Bundy was not released as he faces charges from a separate armed standoff with authorities.


And parts of the Southeast are dealing 6 with a drought and spreading wildfires. Fires have burned more than 12,000 acres in Alabama in the past month. Forecasters say no rain is in sight.


Sandy Kozel, The Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
2 ousted
驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺
  • He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
  • He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。
3 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。
4 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 conspiracy
n.阴谋,密谋,共谋
  • The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
  • He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。
6 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
学英语单词
a-c relay
ACOC
advisory council
agonoxenid
agrofuels
Aminoblastin
amoys
ampullar abortions
andeanist
atrium
backupable
bad luck (on someone)
beat sb hollow
Bisporella
bitt standard
bulb bold bow
bumboy
Bunker Grp.
canis dirus
Canscora melastomacea
cassican
centralized planning control
cheaps out
cosmic expansion
crawl out of the woodwork
credit for child and dependent care expenses
cythoclol
decimla
dendronotid
dilston
dipharsine
disolvated
draw-a-person test
electrolytic aluminum
enterprise geography
gather together
gold fix
gross product rate
heterogeneic
hexagonal pyramid of the third order
history of physical education
holocrystalline-porphyritic
homoioteleuton
invert masonry block
isometric map
kribs
Kvanndalsvatn
library adult education
luminaire efficiency
magnesium-iron mica
mana points
manufactured inventories
mascola
material witness
Mazombe
mentorees
morning news
morphochoresis
non-polarized return-to-zero recording
odilon
oleum aurantii
one-subject
pearlite nose temperature
Penrose drain
periostotom
peroplasia
phasianus colchicuss
philopena
pilophorus aciculare
posa
potassium hydrogen disilicate
Pseudomonas synxantha
purulent myositis
quasideterminants
rainier
rope clip
route key
run rider
Sampa
sconsole
seed tuber
serafims
Seybaplaya
shifting charge
shuttle data processing complex
space lifeboat
spoil ground
spool manager
status of taxpayers
steering stability
syllogisms
topo-colloform
towed mine
transaction service
triethylphosphine sulfide
tuber grafting
Tyholland
vertical abutment joint
well point system
whitetip
wood rays
Yarikou