时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(二)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Despite the rebuke 1 of Massachusetts Senator Elisabeth Warren for criticizing colleague and attorney general-designate Jeff Sessions with the words of Coretta Scott King from three decades ago, other Democrats 2 quoted King in speeches on Wednesday. Senators Bernie Sanders and Tom Udall both read passages of the letter on the Senator floor.


Panamanian authorities say a 23-year-old U.S. tourist has been found dead on a Caribbean island. Officials said the body of Catherine Johannet of New York was found on Sunday on a trail in a wooded area not far from a beach on Bastimentos Island.


Somalia has declared a new president on Wednesday. Former prime minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo took the oath of office as the long-chaotic country moved toward its first fully 3 functioning central government in a quarter-century.


And three Malayan tiger cubs 4 are being cared for in the Cincinnati Zoo's nursery. The zoo says nursery staffers step in to help the cubs warm up and feed, as the first-time mother's maternal 5 instincts didn't kick in immediately.


Emily Roseman, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 rebuke
v.指责,非难,斥责 [反]praise
  • He had to put up with a smart rebuke from the teacher.他不得不忍受老师的严厉指责。
  • Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.哪怕迟到一分钟也将受到严厉的斥责。
2 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》
3 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
4 cubs
n.幼小的兽,不懂规矩的年轻人( cub的名词复数 )
  • a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
  • Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 maternal
adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的
  • He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
  • The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。
学英语单词
a-Methapred
academic standing
adjourned
aircraft seat
anisotropic diffusion coefficients
arc lighting
asphaltic concrete
axial orientation
banjoing
Beckham, Victoria
beergarita
black knots
blanking tolerance
board house
bound-bound energy transition
British horsepower
brons
calabar skin
Calophanoides chinensis
canvass for contribution
capital of Somalia
charecter
chemical cooling
chunqiu
colour triple
compatilizer
condonances
contact pad
CPI-C
CSIS (containment spray injection system)
culturabilities
de-ionised
deranged
descending myelitis
dietls
Diggory
effluent sewage
elacin
embryogeny
energy-resolution
enolized
F. P. M.
fixx
flash flood
flux-time
four-powers
fracture English
g.a.r.y
Hammerstein Seamount
Handae-ri
heart - to - heart talk
helicopterist
Hentiyn Nuruu
heptarchist
horizontal milling machine
indigenous hydrocarbon
lemmata
locking position
lowii
malariometry
mechanical synchronization
microscrew
middle chain fatty acid
minac
mis-shapen
molecule partition function
myorhabdoi
negative identity
neutral reactor
optimal bias
panhemagglutination
penthorum
peroxisome (de duve 1965)
physarum pusillum
pichurim beans
point pole
poppet valve
postulated accident condition
Predinsolone
pulvillus
quantization law
reception department
reinoculated
religious orders
river run gravel
running-costs
seismic core phase
self-negation
senryus
settle for
sick-making
simnels
sleighers
Smolenskaya Vozvyshennost
streak plate
temporary light
track obstruction
transformation of environmental substance
turning indicator
waste disposal
wrek