时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(五)月


英语课

 


This is AP News Minute.


A Baltimore officer was acquitted 1 Monday of an assault and other charges in the arrest of Friddie Gray. The judge in the non-jury trial concluded Edward Nero did not play a large role in Gray's arrest. Gray died from injuries suffered in the back of a police van.


A pair of bombings carried out by Islamic State militants 2 killed at least 45 people in Yemen on Monday. Security officials say the bombers 3 targeted young men seeking to join the army at a recruitment center and outside the home of an army commander.


President Barack Obama lifted the US embargo 4 on selling arms to Vietnam during a visit to the country on Monday. Obama will spend the next 2 days speaking directly to the Vietnamese people and meeting with civil society groups and young entrepreneurs.


A rite 5 of passage as members of the Naval 6 Academy's class of 2019 climbed to 21-foot monument to mark the end of their freshman 7 year. Students formed a human pyramid around the greased pole in order to replace the plebe cup on top with the midshipmen's cover.


Krysta Fauria, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 acquitted
宣判…无罪( acquit的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(自己)作出某种表现
  • The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
  • Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
2 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
3 bombers
n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 );投弹手;安非他明胶囊;大麻叶香烟
  • Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 embargo
n.禁运(令);vt.对...实行禁运,禁止(通商)
  • This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
  • During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间,他们禁止与敌国通商。
5 rite
n.典礼,惯例,习俗
  • This festival descends from a religious rite.这个节日起源于宗教仪式。
  • Most traditional societies have transition rites at puberty.大多数传统社会都为青春期的孩子举行成人礼。
6 naval
adj.海军的,军舰的,船的
  • He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
  • The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。
7 freshman
n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)
  • Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
  • He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。
学英语单词
alikhans
almodovars
aura cursativa
barc
charge calculation
Clerodendrum philippinum
cliftonia monophyllas
coiflets
color fixing
compression rib
concentrated platelet suspension
conche
crank web
cut the rough stuff
debit ticket
deposition money
diabetic puncture
double lead covering
dual-stage
effective facsimile band
elastic displacement
electrothermal ammeter
emergency seat
endodermis depression
erasing knife
exclusive interview
fetal anoxia
fine balancing
first harmonic
flat seamer
flukiness
fore-part
forensic toxicology
fruit juice drink
gastrimargisme
generation after generation
generator unit
genus Acocanthera
goat-hairs
gonococcocide
grayish-brown
Gulf of Martaban
have a show of
hybrid microstructure
in reality as well in name
indagating
intercloses
inventory on consignment
irremeable
kennedias
La Encrucijada
lepidosirens
leptomata
line polar of a curve
liquid ring
low-fume and harmfulness electrode
mahmals
main variant of a phoneme
Manitowoc County
maximum daily consumption
maximum width of car
Mesonex
Mobutu
monsoon cloud cluster
National Endowment for the Humanities
Newman-Keuls test
non-conservation elements
Nyssapollenites
open trial
oven entrance
placing-out.
plate cam
praspedomyza brunnifrons
quarrelled
rack lift
raised plan
rotary blender
Saas Fee
self-polar triangle
sipho
size boiler
ski-in
sodium oleate agar
ST_life-and-death_places-where-bodies-are-buried-or-cremated
subscapular vein
sulphur black
tax search
Tetrazzini, Luisa
thaumatin
topee
topocentre
Ullerup
upper sieve
versus
vitricus
wire link
wire rods
work magic
working environment
wringle-wrangle
zle
Zorrillo, R.