时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(五)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Democrats 1 are intensifying 2 their calls for an independent commission to probe any Trump 3 campaign ties to Russia and the president's firing of FBI Director James Comey. But House Speaker Paul Ryan cautioned against "rushing to judgement". The White House is denying the president pressed Comey to put the brakes on the FBI investigation 4. Trump complained at a commencement speech that "no politician in history" has been treated worse than he has.


The Turkish government and Washington's mayor traded blame Wednesday for violence outside Turkey's embassy, where President Erdogan's security staff broke up an anti-government protest. Nine people were hurt, and two were arrested.


Hundreds of law enforcement members served arrest and search warrants in Los Angeles as part of a three-year investigation into the ultra-violent street gang MS-13. Dozens of members and leaders were charged with a variety of crimes, including murder.


The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus will give its last show this weekend. The Associated Press was granted extensive access to day-to-day life with the preformers during the days of Ringling's last run in Providence 5.


Krysta Fauria, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 democrats
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 intensifying
v.(使)增强, (使)加剧( intensify的现在分词 );增辉
  • The allies are intensifying their air campaign. 联军部队正加大他们的空战强度。 来自辞典例句
  • The rest of the European powers were in a state of intensifying congestion. 其余的欧洲强国则处于越来越拥挤的状态。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史
3 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
4 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
5 providence
n.深谋远虑,天道,天意;远见;节约;上帝
  • It is tempting Providence to go in that old boat.乘那艘旧船前往是冒大险。
  • To act as you have done is to fly in the face of Providence.照你的所作所为那样去行事,是违背上帝的意志的。
学英语单词
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
accrued benefit
acid cured epoxy resin
air-gap torque motor
al mahdam
anilin dye
aphorismic
Ayuy
bandy-bandy
blade-removal opening
blanched garlic leaves
borerproof plywood
bottom contraction
bregmatic bone
bring to ruin
BSD license
charges for licensing of import permit
cheese plate
cidoxepine
clinosafflorite
commodity price
computational domain
conducting wheel
cross-hair
damage line test
daybreaks
door-to-door transport
doxetaxel
Edwardiana
electrovalency
endocervicoma
eothyridids
eribons
external wrinkle
Fagonia
following acceleration
Freyssinet concrete hinge
graft-versus-host disease (gvhd)
helsing
high nutritive value
high-resolution colour picture
imbellic
in the shower
indium hydrosulfide
Iranophones
irsogladine
isomorphism of sheaves
John Trumbull
khephren
Kor, Rūd-e
kyou mai (japan)
late burst
lay of the case
leaf lamina
life preservers
make reprisal
mcghan
melena spuria
Mladotice
mortianna
myokymias
Nioaque
NLat
North Australian Basin
open-studio
orthoterio
outdistanced
overyear storage
paradoxical reaction
parallel scheduling
pathologic rigidity
petroleum ester
phaeocryptopus nudus
phase-recovery time
progressivement
psychology of public prosecution
pull cut shaper
pull out of
quasi-periodic
range of composition
re-located
reader-in-the-text
remote focusing
retail store cooperative
riceballs
shorted
slot turning
spamalot
stigmatic chamber
strategic acquisition
the RAF
thiadiazol
thornings
time division multiplex
time shift
TLC
twoscores
Uli
vehemences
war advocacy
war surplus
yirb