时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(四)月


英语课

 


This is AP News Minute. 


Arkansas executed 2 prison inmates 1 Monday night. Convicted killers 2 Jack 3 Jones and Marcel Williams received lethal 4 injections about 3 hours apart. It was the first double executions in the United States since back in 2000.  


Republicans and Democrats 5 in Congress are trying to reach a budget deal to keep the government from shutting down at the end of the week. President Trump 6 boasted the effort by backing off his demand for funds for a wall on the US-Mexican border.  


North Korea has marked the anniversary of the founding of its military. Ceremonies included soldiers and citizens, waving flowers at the statues of the country’s last two rulers.


And heavy rain is causing floods in several southeastern states. Some vehicles got stuck in the deep water, covering Charleston, South Carolina streets. 


Matt Small, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 inmates
n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )
  • One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 killers
凶手( killer的名词复数 ); 消灭…者; 致命物; 极难的事
  • He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
  • They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
3 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
4 lethal
adj.致死的;毁灭性的
  • A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
  • She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。
5 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》
6 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。
学英语单词
alloy irons
arc of vibration
Argemone Tourn ex L.
basket dinner
boolde
caban
christoffer
commonly-accepted
creamic mold
cross the cudgel
Daouda
DC overvoltage protection
disauthorizing
dot-sequential color television
double-winding alternator
dubay
economic acquisition of resources
evangelizing
ever though
false cast
fiasci
finans
finite-word length arithmetic
footer sample
fund asset
girder sclerenchyma
global search-and-replace
guggulsterone
hepatised
hyperhidrotic
hypomineralisation
ID identification
interference fluctuation of sound
ionic pumping
Jiquan (H1)
job-hunt
john iii sobieski
Justin Martyr, Saint
kata
kolmogorov microscale
laudamine
least squares fit
Lutjanidae
lymphangitides
Madley, Mt.
Maher
Mambili Occidentale
marilena
Meisenheim
military sub-district
mine anchor line
must take resources
mutual-support
mydatoxine
non marketable
null persistency
obelisms
Paralyzer
parapan
pcsr
pelorism
phosphovanadomolybdic acid
piston diameter
press ... for
primeval-soups
punch print editor
put a gloss on
radial costa
regional electricity companies (recs)
relieving diarrhea with astringents
remoisturized
retracted tongue root
richta scale
rnb
roadway plank
rotary muller
SFAF
show one's ivories
Sinjil
skylike
sorbitol ester
space-like surface element
Stellaria congestiflora
Synchily
technical manager
the gentilitied
thermally stratified layer
three high universal mill
Tineidae
trial jury
ts'ai ch'a wu
uniqueness of decision situation
Vaccinium petelotii
vapo(u)r pump
vena cordis media
veritism
very shallow water wave
war-bird silo
water jetting at high pressure
wiring code
wonder flowers
yamp