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
adjuvanticity
after-cultivation
airphoto transfer
alpine glaciation
amphisapropel
ampullae quininae et ureae hydrochloridi
angiport
antifreeze substance
arch-thief
argies
assembly coding
automatic-batch column dryer
background noise of wind tunnel
blank bond
blanket jam
bretcock
canvas table
caserne
centipeds
cerinous
cesium tetraoxide
chloro-stannate
counter immunoelectrophoresis
counter-ideologies
cryopanel array
cutting room
Cystophora cristata
derisking
drawing vehicle
Ellwangen Berge
epidemic strain
Europistan
excercise therapy for amputees
excess credit
fair warning
godowns
grunters
hongkongia songi
Hubbard.
hyparchic gene
IAPSO
informal application
intensity fluctuation spectroscopy
internal normalization
inverter
jahn teller effect
jainer
k/l ratio
Karacorman
Kirk Sound
Komis
Lachlan
lafeu
laryngomalacia
let fall a remark
level of interpenetration
libtardation
lot-acceptance sampling
lunar mansion
madreperla lustre
mains-frequency synchronous motor
methoxycinnamate
NCA-Snase
Nhanduqué, R.
nitrex
North Palisade Mountain
nothing to
on the periphery
on-site reprocessing
one piece frame press
optical fiber communications
pectorophony
plastic corpuscle
Platanthera stenoglossa
polyazulene
reverse osmosis device
robe-de-chambre
rose pinks
scaled pulse
shambhala
simulatneous draw texturing machine
soil buffer action
specialdelivery
squeeze-
supermans
suprascapular region
sweet ferns
tachylytic
tackifying ability
thingama-bob
tomorrers
track drainage
transliteration
Turyn's sign
vat-free
Victoria violet
vision acuity
volatile metal
weighing house
wymore
ZPO