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。
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a good deal
aerodynamic wave drag
aldose-ketose isomerase
Altlay
an opening of business
atomic emission spectrum
balanced ratio
ballen
bene-placiture
benzoic alcohol
bowds
bromo-phosphonium
Burgh Head
butopyrammonium iodide
cannot handle
case extractor groove
champerss
chowderlike
coal rake seam
community
comparative statement of product costs
conjugate movement
control totals
cylindrochlorin
Deng Xiaoping
dhobic itch
dibutyltin dibromide
dichlorantipyrine
drawbored
electronic-flash lamp
EPC (easy processing channel)
ethyl dibenzyl-glycolate
expectancy
file meristem
flat package
fluorination of drinking water
genus picumnuss
grass marsh pine forest
guanabenzs
hechtman
hydrogen
hydrogen getter material
hyperline
Indosasa parvifolia
jamerson
large-screen picture
least square minimization
limit of side projection of blade
littoral benthal
low albite
luminous gas
Mandler filter
masticoate
Melmélé
Merrillan
midshipmanship
mole
monocles
moon-blindness
mountain-tops
nanny-like
non-energy use
nonchromogens
noninclusions
oil-field emulsion
omnidirectional signal
payday loan
pesterment
picters
prothromibin complex
pull to a stop
put a curb upon
quadruple scanning
ranestol
re-formattings
reactive energy meter
restricted problem of three bodies
roadmaker
saturated-steam temperature
serializer shift clock
sharks
sharp feature
short-time trend
smart browsing
smoke deflector
splaiting
spongivore
spurious transmitter output conducted
square netter
subaluminous rocks
swappable segment
symbolic equation
synchroized operation
Temple of Jerusalem
tesams
tetraodontid
textualities
thyratron controlled generator
tireman
united states thread
Viburnum erubescens