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
ability to function
apothegmatising
ashiver
asset-purchase
at a high plane
autochthonic
be behind
bilamellated
Birresborn
body hugger
Brazilian blowouts
bucket chain dredge
bures
campsosternus mirabilis
capacity-input filter
carp.
cauterization of sclera
cell-phones
chabrol
charge storage flipflop
Chinese tallowtree seed oil
Circinae
collection anionic
concentrated waste store
crossed belt sander
databook
delivery car
density of occupancy
dery
Desmodoroidea
door-stops
double beat
duty of master
earn a good reputation
endotenon
fragilis
fuel particles
fuel reprocessing
gaging hole
gastrulae
glycerol trioleate
Gorodovikovsk
governing word
grammaticity
Hajdu-Bihar Megye
herd-average
i-stihen
independent rail fastening
inhibited error
inveighed
larval fishes
logs
Lyotardian
maltose-1-phosphate
megacoulombs
mine timer
momentary supply
mongolians
Montenegran
nardini
non-domiciled
noncivilized
noncommutative right context sensitive grammar
oclitic texture
Omskaya Oblast'
optimum reaction vessel water level
Oransbari
oxidizer overflow connector
Petit truss
photoconductivity dosimetry
polyvalent bacterial vaccine
primary of international law
quaternary fission
rated head
real-numbers
recits
restabilized
riunites
rope stranded wire
safe-hold
Sain-Paulin cheese
salpas
saturated set
scallions
silk cloth
snail clover
soluteness
special ordinance
spillway of food
syringaldehyde
tevfik
throb with
Toti's operation
true face
turbulent skin-friction coefficient
two-resistance theory
unlost
volumetric losses
wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometers
world's merchant shipping