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
abnormal patency of eustachian tube
anchor stud
anti reverse rotaotion device
anticipatory government
automatic-feed grinder
benzyloxy
Berkeley B.
bethink of
break-make-make contact
bridge transformer (hybrid coil)
brother link
bucolism
cabinet-type switch
ceresan
chafing block seat
charles de gaulles
choucroute garnie
co-tillage
company number
contamination
Cooperative electric utility
cumulative screen analysis
debilone
dendrocalamuss
dichroiscopic
direction safeguard valve
do accounts
Dobruja,Dobrogea
double bearing rudder
dump box moulding
e-community
emanuels
embracable
ergastulum
ethylphenyl-polyoxyethylene-etheralcohol
exponent equation
falls all over
field-programmable logic array
first criticality
fishy taint
fist of five
flood recession
frontotemporal
funneled pipe
gibbetings
grind to powder
H carrier system
horizontal resultant
Imperial Academy of Medicine
induction heat-treatment
infamising
jean anouilhs
Kaunata
king beam
land boundary
low-temperature cooling
Maglemosian industry
mailable
marine functional zoning
max plancks
MFAC
National Labor Union
neurosurgeons
no-primary
NRVM
open chest cardiac compression
operator handler
overmodest
raise set
recorderships
regent house
rosololactone
S. A. C.
Schottky diode termination
scrap from stock
sicko
soft switching
sound and flash ranging
spectral invariant
speedometer shaft clip
splayed edging
static-safe area
stirrup-pump
sucrose ester of fatty acid
superancy
taikanite
tape cell
target oriented
theriomorphous
tone down
Twelfth Amendment
ultrapotassic
unkinky
unshipments
vege out
VGPR
virtual path connection identifier (vpci)
Waihi
wedge-type flow
xmin
zero calibration frequency converter
zeroing-in