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
-philous
acute anxious feeling
agidibo
allocated cutting method
aniline cancer
ballcaps
baro-
biliary tract neoplasm
Bouafle
bouki
building-out capacitor
Ch'ǒngch'ǒn-ri
chiffchaffs
concealment and nondisclosure
conetta
construction contract in process
construction supervision
container system
copper-constantan thermocouple
corn steep liquor
crust-hunt
custard pudding
Dienstweiler
disavails
disseminated choroiditis
drilling rigs at sea
Eberthella talavensis
enthroning
environtology
fertilizer the soil
fictitious graticule
fiocchi
foundry chisel
galactographers
gasserectomy instrument set
genus Olfersia
geological timetable
go path
Good Friday
Gothic arch tracer
heat-supply load factor
HHAR
hoffman oscillator
HVLS
improper quadric
incentive marketing
industrialiser
ion image
Jawor
kafkas
kerest
liar('s) dice
local concept
luhaiya (al luhayyah)
materials returned to stockroom
mesulfen
Miltaun
more-over
multiple phase
multiple quantum well detector
neoprene rubber sleeve
nonfundamental mode flow table
oneway clutch
packstones
papilio hermosanus
parachromatopsia
pep pill
phycobillisome
pit field
planenesses
ploridyscrinia
polemicizes
pongol
Porson
Prosostomata
reflex pick-up
regenerative detection tube
revesz
roar at
rubrique
Scarpa's staphyloma
scatter buffet
sea of
selenophysical phenomena
sexualizers
short wave therapy apparatus
Standryl
stannic sulphide
start-up wear
stockscion interaction
stop ... wind
tension plate lock-up
the dawn chorus
thyridium
tippur
Ts'ageri
uniparted
vatos
Virginia rose
vretical centering control
wages and salaries account
white-black