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
Alassio
alkaliresistant
ampullar
armed islamic groups
bacterial endotoxin
beavens
beer-tokens, beer-vouchers
ben tree
Besut
bialkali photocathode
Bontberg
branch connector
bromelein
calculation of effective value
calloways
cape hood
Carpentier ring
Ch'angdo
circular-measure
cold-rolled carbon spring steel
combated
complete graph
continuous running signal
crankshaft piston compressor
cream colour
cryogenic coil
defects liability period
denticulate ring
drain collecting system
e sharp
environmental qualification
esrun
exterior container
finishing paint
forevermores
fuel barrier
Gentiana pudica
genus alouattas
gerlogubi (gedlegube)
gitterned
Gosse, Sir Edmund William
home schooled
Horn of Africa
inlet water
Istebné
kingsmere
knal
knock off one's feet
landscape development of highway
light duty flooring
Lublinite
mannerance
media-literacy
methylbenzylamine
micro command
Middle Border
modular N arithmetic
modularity of system packaging
multibook
myopathic spasm
near-zone sounding
necessity for life
Nehushta
Nencki reaction
Niegosławice
normal curves
out-of-power
paraxial ray tracing
partes sacralis
pittosporum sahnianum gowda
pole field
poussie
previous year
qinghua university
quantized response
quantum merit
regulare
sailboarder
sandbreak forest
Schiwanox
sectorial tides
spectral index
sperm -nucleus
starting air bottle
stored liquid plasma
subjectto immediate reply
subsolar point temperature
sup-plementing
thermodynamic branch
time attack
titty-twister
tropism
unrespectfulness
urban family
ureic
vicem
washing filtrate
waterrepellent finish
web-fed
well salt
wet cutting
youngest empty cell