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
A eliminator
aazaan
accusation of crime
applicant for insurance
arenaceous-pelitic facies
Asperger's
bar-room plants
Barrow, C.
bemoradan
black noise
blue highs
Brewster(unit)
central pilot tunneling method
cidar
co-logarithm
composite stock
conjugate elements
constant torque asynchronous motor
corridorless
credit spread
decaffeinates
Discaloy alloy
disposing capacity of the natural person
distributed bulletin board
dolphin hugger
doubly charged
dublin bay prawn
Durruqsi
each year
earthstations
enter into a contract with
Epimedium platypetalum
fancy matt
Gascoyne Plain
general lighting system
gluttonizes
go skating
gust influence
half round head screw
hematosis
Hering's phenomenon
Hieracium pilocella
histolyzed
hoque
hour star jumper eccentric
hydroxybenzylpenicillin sodium
hypermilitarized
IDGF
inequable
investigations on rice growing
Kaibito Plateau
language-changes
Ligularia jamesii
lubb
lymphologically
man made isotope
martyrologists
Mathieu's disease
mercantile enquiry agency
message switching multiplexer
micromanages
Missolonghi(Mesolongion)
Mtagenesis
off-blast period
on load factor
Perkovic
phlorhizinize
plunger-type cylinder
pneumatoscope
porosus
precision wavemeter
primary specific ionization
purchase discount lost
purchases in transit
Quilaco
rayleigh dissipation function
Roebuck Downs
second month of summer
segment independence
self-balancing amplifier
shak-shak
shell frame
shift operation
sodic chalybeate
St. Vitus dance
stacking fault hardening
statistical parallax
subreptions
supertransuranic element
tail chute
to the last gasp
tolylene
top peg
trade and industrial education
troglobitic
underflowing irrigation
vanadic ocher
vertical cutter
walled gardens
Welshify
wickhoff
zygosporangium