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
a-block
active center
ad hominem
alternative attribute
apneusis apneustic breathing
Ascococcus
aucubin(e)
baisas
behrend
boeces
campanias
capacitor-discharge welding
capital growing stock
captive model test
carrier sheet
case-weed
caulicolous
chain gill drawing frame
chain ring
Chesterfield Inlet
class-teacher
crotch fruits
Cygnus buccinator
danghara (dangara)
dateline
delayed type
disponer
drift constant
earthiy
Eurasian jay
fall back mode
ferrous metal
fibre moulded product
fruitious
genus Malaclemys
Girondism
glaucous bristlegrasses
gonadotropins
gram-molecular
gulfs of california
gunpowder residue
Hai River system
helium family element
her-mele
homoeostases
hydrobiids
imbricans
implementation period of new technology
increment function
inoculum potential
inspection of hull lofting
ion exchange absorption
Kemetic
lalthyrus tingitanuss
Larceveau-Arros-Cibits
MMCC
monocolpate pollem
more than all
Mount St. Helens
neikirk
of one's own motion
off-center
osmunda vachellii hook.
outards
overtemperature protection system
para mesonephric duct
parasitic fetus
penicillium emmonsii
perruquiers
placer supplemental service information
plain position indicator
pre-funding
pulse rate meter
query path
reasor
renews
rioterie
sacculation of larynx
saturation patrol
seelily
semblances
single rooted teeth
singular kernel
soothful
stacking gel
stinging insect
sum payable
sunteches
swallow buoy
system relay
television modulator
Tetrarthria variegate
trading and profit and loss statement
traumatic idiocy
tryparsamides
tshwr.
uk pharmaceuticals
wcpo
wicked stepmother
wraparound(in computer graphics)
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