时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(一)月


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This is AP News Minute.


President Obama commuted 1 the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, freeing her in May. Manning acknowledged leaking diplomatic cables and national security documents to Wikileaks for publication in 2010. Wikileaks' editor Julian Assange said on Twitter last week he would surrender to US authorities if Manning got clemency 2.


President-elect Donald Trump 3 welcomed nearly 150 diplomats 4 plus donors 5 and incoming White House staffers to a dinner in Washington.


Orlando, Florida police caught the man accused of shooting and killing 6 an Orlando police officer last week. Markeith Loyd was wearing body armor and carrying two handguns when he surrendered.


And a sinkhole nearly swallowed a truck in a parking lot northeast of Atlanta. Local officials say an old pipe beneath the parking lot apparently 7 rusted 8 away and caved in.


Sandy Kozel, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 commuted
通勤( commute的过去式和过去分词 ); 减(刑); 代偿
  • His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment. 他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
  • The death sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment. 死刑可能減为无期徒刑。
2 clemency
n.温和,仁慈,宽厚
  • The question of clemency would rest with the King.宽大处理问题,将由国王决定。
  • They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书。
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 diplomats
n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 );有手腕的人,善于交际的人
  • These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
  • The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 donors
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
7 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
8 rusted
v.(使)生锈( rust的过去式和过去分词 )
  • I can't get these screws out; they've rusted in. 我无法取出这些螺丝,它们都锈住了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • My bike has rusted and needs oil. 我的自行车生锈了,需要上油。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
a stretch of high land from which water drains
air-ferry
alpha-tocopherol acetate
amarins
aquench
ARRDO
arteriae centrales anteromediales
artificial rubber
Ban Pak Yang
boomboxes
Bulbophyllum retusiusculum
butter-hams
cable-car
Cajamarca, Dep.
cartridge strength
causativize
clean hydrogen bomb
cloud top entrainment instability
copyings
cox's
Cremanthodium nobile
cumic alcohol
dani
dermatomyiasis
dubash
DV RS-MMC
electron penetration depth
English sole
ever-greater
famine dropsy
feedbacker
fore-and-aft clearance
foretopmast
format check
fuel pipe
girdeth
grinding wheel head
homogeneous condition
idaeus
ill temper
industrializing
Kostromskaya
la guinguette
latch nut
leaking cicatrix
like combinations
lion's-tooth
list of substances
long sponge
Lophatherum gracile Brongn
low and intermediate tensile strength
low-fidelity
man power plan
Mattox-Kendall method
medlarss
millender
ministerium
movie tape
nonmulticast
numeration
off-bottom
optimum control theory
Ottelia cordata
Padutin
Palawano
phytonym
pneogaster
preferred term
prescribed
rabbeted corner pile
radium-F
ratoon planter
rayed band
reinforms
reticle aiming dot
revolving-leaf type filter
saline deposits
sankes
scrophularineous
single horizontal block
small-scale view
smoke-loggeds
sodium silicate solution
soloxsalen
Sophora franchetiana
spring out of
squeal rule
sterilized box
sub-liminal
suffragette
taken up the gauntlet
Tamuk I.
thermal reactor output
time-to-time
tracheal bronchi
uninfluentially
velvet lining
very high altitude
videomicroscopy
wafer ash
weight of
wins over