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
aftersale
air drying
alligator pipe wrench
anaphylactoid
anomospermous
basulard
biological detection
birdiest
blickling
bounded context parser
breast stoping
brevitubus
calfee
carbozoo
caremost
Chamaedo
clearing up
cobalt catalyst
contractors
copy auto ins
coudert
crated
crown brass
dc cable
de-realized
decinormal solution
dewars bottle
differential-excited generator
double register
electromagnetic shielding chamber
electronic position indicator (epi)
extensive hemorrhage
flagstar
foldering
gasoline tank cap
give lip service to
glacial detritus
granulocyte-macrophage colony
group mode
hand over to
how would you like it
in absolute term
indears
infinite chain
interruptible load
Juruna, R.
kolmogorov-smirnov one-sample test
Kyivs'ka Oblast'
laluna
Langeln
lifeform spectrum
light-pen attribute
Little Ruler
me-generations
mean lag
meat infusion bouillon
medical decision making
multipyramidial kidney
nazaritic
neomys fodienss
noblestem
overlapping sublist
pandya
pecker
petroni
pier-heads
Plato
playoff game
positive conditioned stimulus
preoccupied name
principal amount
Public Works Administration
purification rate
rainlike
recursion tree
reinich
ride the lightning
round-sharp needle
schrempf
self-creation
shoulder cut
Sidi Toui
SINECOD
slalomed
sports announcer
staphylococcalphage
strategic nuclear forces
Stratford de Redcliffe, 1st Viscount (Seratford Canning)
subtropic rain forest climate
tapper unit
thernstrom
tidal weir
timing-belt pulley
torify
transvestic fetishisms
unbocked
unglazed porcelain
user queue
walking type plow
wyckoff
Yeldyak
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