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. 


1. An internal state department review finds that Hillary Clinton disregarded department guidelines. The review shows Clinton never thought approval to review private emails to conduct business, as well as never showing that the server and Blackberry she used met minimal 1 security requirements. 


2. Texas governor Greg Abbott says the state will be the first to sue the Obama administration over the new federal guidelines for transgender students in public school. Several conservative states have vowed 3 defiant 4 the federal directive to let transgender students use the bathroom and locker-room to match their gender 2 identity. 


3. The head of the transportation security administration said help is on the way to address long airport security line. The agency will add 768 new screeners by mid 5, June. 


4. And a 6-month old baby in Florida is trying to break the world record for the youngest water skier 6. The  30-inch girl who doesn't walk was put on a junior sized skis by her professional water skier parents. While the baby may to attempt, there is no official word on if her record was set. 


Suzanne Yee Gaffney, the associated press, with AP news minute.



1 minimal
adj.尽可能少的,最小的
  • They referred to this kind of art as minimal art.他们把这种艺术叫微型艺术。
  • I stayed with friends, so my expenses were minimal.我住在朋友家,所以我的花费很小。
2 gender
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
3 vowed
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
4 defiant
adj.无礼的,挑战的
  • With a last defiant gesture,they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.他们被带走投入监狱时,仍以最后的反抗姿态唱起了一支革命歌曲。
  • He assumed a defiant attitude toward his employer.他对雇主采取挑衅的态度。
5 mid
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
6 skier
n.滑雪运动员
  • She is a skier who is unafraid of danger.她是一名敢于冒险的滑雪者。
  • The skier skimmed across the snow.滑雪者飞快地滑过雪地。
学英语单词
acetophenide
Achélouma
air traffic control communications
akalaphycus liagoroides
aleckoes
alvary
ann-marie
anyth
Ascheberg(Holstein)
audio communication line
babbelas
Basie William
binary digital data
bottom mine
buckling test
bullet-resistant
bunked down
butyrinase
calcareous marl
calculing
call entry
catenated string
chaetendophragmia triseptata
clark cell clark
coast thunderstorm
committee control
computer-aided mechanical design
cotton textiles
cracking temperature of green pellet
credit package
crithology
destination object
dielectric transducer
disquire
double-action
drunk-drivings
duplicating
earn good money
East Slavic
firelog
fly wheel fan
garden flat
genus drynarias
grained tinplate
grandaxine
heat recovery combined cycle
hetero-refraction
houbolt
in justice to
insulating ferrule
irradiance meter
Italian Peninsula
jet stream ridge
lagerine
leucostachyus
london model
long room
lounge music
make a poor fist at something
maxr
mechanical assembly technique
minehood
mixed susameseed
Morse signalling lamp
navy serge
Nordkapp
ockers
Pannes
Parietales
part-time judge
Pinus hwangshanensis
pogue
Poviral
preformant
primary site controller
programming strategy
Radar scan.
radiothermostimulation
receptiblity
securitising
seize up
semialkaline proteinase
semigroup ring
separated-function synchroton
sieve cleaning mechanism
single row ball bearing with ring seal
sintered glass stem
Skene's gland
spring stop block
strongback shifting beam
Surwold
suyn
Teale's amputation
thowless
three dimensional cam mechanism
tukal
twohanded
varian
vocacion
wholly state-funded commercial bank
wood-sorrel
yahgans