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
anandas
angulus infectiosus
aplanospores
arillodes
Balobe
bereuter
bidex baling machine
boundary tension
Calvi, G.de
Celsius, Anders
Cenarchaeales
Chapman's pill
click pulley
clockwise polarization
comdial
commercial pledge
CPIT
Credit Spread Option
crowdlike
crx
delay action detonator
denervated bladder
deplistor
devolvings
Dostoyevskyan
dual image processing system
ductus biliferi interlobulares
dutriomycin
ear-to-row method
earthquake observing station
eating-houses
electrobasograph
ERSD
external thoracic artery
feed (liquid) distributor
fertilizer experiment
filiated
fire classification
firehole
first place
fission nuclear reactions
food-deficiency disease
foresmen
gas range
generalized reciprocal method
ghap
Golumet'
group-grope
guanidine kinase
interdivisional
invasivity
inwoods
jaspo pal
Karman vortex
Kirkcudbright Bay
laraque
logic analyser
made no scruple to do
miliary fevers
mobile mount
multiple culvert
nettle ring
nonshorting switch
pivot knife-plane
plant residue of peat
pre-reaction
preponderating anode
presentably
professional indemnity
Propane air
propulsive control
punditic
queuing discipline
reach up
region of runoff
resty
retaining-ring
rhizostyle
rutinic acid
Saromabetsu-gawa
silver-on-line
similarity principle
single pass dryer
site backtracking
so nice
sodium amalgam
spray dome
statement of capital stock
surcar
sushi
tan vat
tar distillation
to supply
translational enhancer
tube extrusion
undeferential
upon a die
use-fully
Varennes-sur-Allier
water-shed inventory survey
with a witness
wood's