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
-leafed
aircraft-community noise
ancistroplax taiwanensis
attention spans
bellarmine
Binh Thuan, Tinh
biosustainability
breath speciment
Buddhize
cambridges
cationic auxiliary
chemical information
co-stability
color depth
compare logic
comscore
Consignmecnt(Delivery)
corporate planning system
de-evolution
degauss push button switch
demotivated
Dolcental
Dr Dre
drop tank
ecolinguistic
EDP (effective depth of penetration)
enabled interruption
Ennedi
equilibrium adsorption
fib
foster families
foxiest
fumewort
gas washing
gene probe
general officer
generalized Jacobian
genus Phytelephas
hand wharf crane
hardly necessary
heat indicating paint
height-to-paper
horizontality
hypnorms
hysteresis energy
imployment
inner city renewal
inteneration
isogradient contour
klallam
kuos
Laminaria saccharina
lap resistance welding
larga
lever brake
library function routine
lifetime of neutron
lipscreen
marburgvirus marburgvirus
mass-day
meteoroscope
microbic insecticide
MIRU
nai (tl) detector
ngaio marshes
non-contributing area
orthiorrhinus
oulai
pain-control
palaeogeographer
patchoulene
phenyl aminosalicylate
pneumatic spraying machine
poivre
postemphasis
pressure ventilator
proper inflation
pterygotemporal
Rayleigh law
rectangular field
reflex housing
renewal and reform of fixed asset
row boat
self ventilation
self-potential log
Sellönd
split hydrophone
steel bar cold drawing machine
study facilities
subjective value
Thayettaw
the water's edge
tonnage dimensions
torier
tracer scale
two-dimensional fluid flow
unchair
under-possessor
unobjectifiable
valve balancing piston
w.f.
world organisation