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
.dsw
a rough ride
Acuaria spiralis
argybargy
astropolicy
auditor's supervisory responsibilities
baiane
bedel circuit
begomovirus pepper leaf curl virus
bilboas
biota
blank market price
blightingly
blindfish
boat shaped object
building of slag
by extension
Candelara
centrifugal-chamber
champi
chorrin
CIMPM
client computing
coirreducible object
computer punch paper tape
Cook's tours
crystalline band
cunning linguist
custom form
cyberfora
denes
destination workspace register
diagnostic-prescriptive
disentwining
double-hung windows
e.s.c
earcaps
egesina albofasciata
emergency kit
endoluminal
endostroma
Epidendrum venosum
euglenophycin
euryspecies
fair market competition
fibre bundle transfer function
fixed oil radical
gcap
Geguan
half and half clasp
height computation
Herts.
heterolyses
indecentest
information object set
integral density
internal audit
it's on the house
low elevation angle of nozzle
M. Arch.E.
manual compensation
midwifes
multi-core type current transformer
Namdaecheon
narods
night-blooming cereus
night-flying operations
ogcodes taiwanensis
optimum load-sharing
original evidences
orthogene
Orthrus
Persea nanmu Oliver
point starting circuit
presymptomatic diagnosis
quick acting voltage regulator
remultiplication
resistance-to-radiation test
rice blast?
sales floor
schedule of changes in net quick assets
scolecenchelys gymnota
segmented condensation method
semi-stabilized dolomite
shut one's light
silicone varnish
Sinesalin
slithery
space boilery
spite
standard reference format
statistic hypothesis testing
strabismuss
targetry
teletypewriter marking pulse
Tol'ka
tufaceous limestone
Vauban's fortification pictures
vertical tracking angle error
what day is it today
zedek
Zhourong