时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(八)月


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This is AP News Minute.


A Brazilian police official tells the AP that the story of 4 US swimmers being robbed at gunpoint in Rio was false. According to the official, the swimmers were confronted by a security guard at a gas station after they forced open a bathroom door and vandalized the bathroom. Olympics officials say the swimmers made a mistake.


Democratic presidential nominee 1 Hillary Clinton spent part of her Thursday afternoon hearing from a select group of chiefs of police and sheriffs. Officers gathered in New York City to offer the nominee suggestions on how to reduce tensions between communities and police officers.


Southern California's big wildfire continues to grow. The fire command says the destructive blaze has scorched 2 more than 49 square miles. As of Thursday morning, up from 40 square miles Wednesday night.


And from Seattle to New York City, statues of a naked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump 3 caused a stir in major cities. This statue, seen standing 4 in the buff as crowds snapped photos was removed by New York parks and recreation crews some time after installation.


Emily Roseman, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
2 scorched
烧焦,烤焦( scorch的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(植物)枯萎,把…晒枯; 高速行驶; 枯焦
  • I scorched my dress when I was ironing it. 我把自己的连衣裙熨焦了。
  • The hot iron scorched the tablecloth. 热熨斗把桌布烫焦了。
3 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。
4 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
学英语单词
accession of wealth
aggregate amount
amplitude-modulation receiver
anal cleft
artemidoruss
assbrains
atomic linkage
augitic
Balkano-
Barex
basaloid
be loud against
benziodoxoles
biastophiliac
bottom pinch roll
burn ward
by-pass bond
capital requirements
CCALI
chiselmanship
chordees
Christicide
clayk-goose
colloquialize
common barley
comparison base
Congruism
copper strip
curved thin-shell roof
customized software
Daphniphyllum subverticillatum
desists
discontinuous deformation
false sarsaparilla
far from the madding crowd
folk-hero
fonduks
foreign exchange terminology
heat regulatory centre
heterophenomenological
high-voltage multiplier
hilda groups (of asteroid)
hui pu y?eh
i-baptized
Immelmann maneuver
independent personnel system
inherently ambiguity
injection-mouldeds
inyet
Keynesian theory of economic growth
laamaar
landing with
lead sulfite
live hard
loftinesses
male urethral crest
mastoid antrotomy
medium power logic gate
memory cycle (time)
microepiphyte
motor-mower
mousselike
multiple control
Nkourala
non-lubricateds
nonerotically
obcuneate
odd lot orders
osladin
parametric linear programming
partial girdle
pendulum module
penicillium cyclopium westendrop
per anum
plate straightening roll
pole core
potassium metastannate
process control monitor
rat-traps
reverse lightning
right scale integrated circuit
rotzs
rural building
salt tolerant microorganism
samarqand
satellitious
screw for framework of automatic device
self acting mule
Sinobambusa seminuda
sodium error
squall front
synchronous coefficient
table-hopping
tesyk
tonnage breadth
tracheo-
transient reactor test experiment
unspectacled
vanderlyn
voltage between segments
wadite
xrays