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
-dactyl
a thorn in someone's side
accidental ejector
armorial decoration
astern synchro-
baritsu
beet variety
belders
besoothing
beta-gamma power
bottle creek
Casparian dot s
cast-iron box
change-over signal
checkered flag
civil affair
contraction of an ideal
Coronocephalus
corrective action team
crossed products
dabbin'
delayed-n multipliers
dense timber
Dhola
diethylacetonitrile
diffraction chart
display hardware
double-checked
dragon-fire
Euronext Brussels
fiti
Foam Lake
followable
freith
genus Calidris
get a hump on
get up late
goooooooooooood
hang 5
happing
heat-sensitive ferrite
hochman
holds fast
hot die forging
incussion
Kobelt's cysts
Kreuzau
ligamenta cruciata genus
Lipha
Local Gov.
logical record processing routine
logistics data analysis
magnesium chalcanthite
manganese-bearing mineral
marsh gas tank
meme virus
mere right
near-vision
needle nose
nonlinearity in lasers
nonmultithreaded
nutshelling
on the rack
opthalmologists
ostent
payment on arrival of shipping document
photoelectric threshold
photoplastic
potted assemblies
profit on working capital
protective relay
pull side
put the chestnuts in the fire
rail surface
re-occurring
recharacterize
residue Lie ring
rotor short circuit
salvage and rescue ship
scirpus
sicyonia ocellata
smegmatis
statically determinate structures
straight-
streakily
subcentric
subcutaneous felon
super freak
Supression
sverdrup (sv)
test failure and resolution report
tetramethylurethimine
thomas jeffersons
toilet tissue
tormentise
tortrixes
upsoars
Victoria, Sa.de la
video picture
xci
Zaandijk
Zosterophyllum