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.


The US Senate has voted on party lines to approve Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Republicans see Price as a knowledgeable 1 leader who can take on Obamacare. Democrats 2 call him an ideologue with a shady history of trading healthcare stocks.


A mother of two who was deported 3 from Arizona spoke 4 to reporters in Mexico. Her lawyer says Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos was deported as a direct result of one of President Donald Trump 5's executive orders.


The White House and China's state broadcaster say President Trump and Chinese President Xi spoke on Thursday evening. The White House says Trump agreed to honor the One China policy that keeps US-Taiwan ties unofficial.


And officials in Southern Louisiana say two workers were hurt and one was missing after an explosion and fire at a pipeline 6. The pipeline was carrying a very volatile 7 natural gas byproduct.


Sandy Kozel, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 knowledgeable
adj.知识渊博的;有见识的
  • He's quite knowledgeable about the theatre.他对戏剧很有心得。
  • He made some knowledgeable remarks at the meeting.他在会上的发言颇有见地。
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 deported
v.将…驱逐出境( deport的过去式和过去分词 );举止
  • They stripped me of my citizenship and deported me. 他们剥夺我的公民资格,将我驱逐出境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The convicts were deported to a deserted island. 罪犯们被流放到一个荒岛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
5 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。
6 pipeline
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
7 volatile
adj.反复无常的,挥发性的,稍纵即逝的,脾气火爆的;n.挥发性物质
  • With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定,投资冒着很大的风险。
  • His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱,喜怒无常。
学英语单词
?-proteobacterial
additonal area
ageing
anabella
Asminderφd
astrologizing
automatic ground-controlled approach
based literal
Beckwith series
blancmanges
bobbin'
boojery
bunk beds
butterfly wing
Capitão Leônidas Marques
catantiphrastical
cercospora erechtitis
Chaput's operation
chargepayer
conglomerateur
conterbrace
cornishman
corolloriflorae
credit control act
dickie-seat
Didoc
direction signal light
dividend on
emergency kit
engine feed pump
exclusive privileges
expanded area ratio
failure modes and effects analysis
ferryside
five-dollar words
flexicostate
foot-dragging
fuddyduddy
full-aperture
gaseous polymerization
Grafotox
haemogenous
horn surface
housing load operation threshold
hypermelanotic
incomplete bill
interlocking signalling
intermediate heating station
isocortisone
justifiers
kabouter
Kansaichihō
keylon
labour standard law
lcci
Licurazid
longitudinal stiffness
nonhydrogenated
normal boiling point
octal debug technique
off the boat
outgroup comparison method
oxyuroid
pancreatinized bismuth
parys
pelvioureterolysis
Piper kadsura
pivot tables
post doc
Push-to-talk Over Cellular
radio life-saving appliance
relationship manager
remastications
robinson projection
Rosa multibracteata
Rüdershausen
Search Engineer
sebarex
segmental phonemics
selective employment tax
semifluid material
sentry post
sido
simple lens
slakin
space expand key
spirometre
spread roll
steel ingot
strip-show
subject description
submillimeter wave oscillator
sumberged flame burner
universe attraction
urethrocystoscope
value-system
water immersion
web addresses
Wedensky facilitation
wedge slope
welded bonnet
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