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
altaics
archaeointensity
atazanavir
autovon user
baloos
basi-hyal cartilage
bring a hornet's nest about one's ears
campodeiform (larva)
chance fault
circumlental space
columbaries
commensurate reduction
concessions stand
connascency
construction water level
controlled float
corollaris
creep-test
cultural-historical
deasphalting
departmentalization of overhead costs
diann
dippingneedle
disincentivizes
double roll stripper
drain collecting system
dull leaves
electrical discharge lamp
elixation
end-of-word character
epiploic foramen
Epéna
express-news
extended data output
firestopping
forepump
gasoline hydrocarbon
genus Nepenthes
glovare
gp63
granulocytopenias
hand of writ
hereditory
hypoperistalsis of intestine
immunopolysaccharide
internationalization of domain names system
ixths
jauntiest
lamellar pyrite
laser wind tunnel
Lassnitzdorf
leaming
left hairspring
male homogamety
mamboing
mastres
Maurice Barrymore
Mercenaria
Michelia tsoi
motor compressor
moves off
naphtholdisulfonic acid
no-big-deal
non-perishable cargo
nucleophile substitution
obligate quadrupeds
odema
off hire survey
olive
over-complicated
oxycarboxin
panettoni
perdie
phacolite
plasmozyme
potassium propionate
Pouligny-St-Pierre
pousto
pseudovalve
publicity expenses
Pwrite
require variable declaration
rheumatoid heart disease
richolt
round-trip ticket
satigrel
screen-print
shot-bag test
sitting in on
steel wire rotary brush
stump extraction
symplocos glauca koidz.
tag marker
tank farm
tap of thread
to avoid
tot ... up
truing
undercellars
vacciaationr varicella
wi-
woolds