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


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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
Admiralty Board
alta paraiso de goias
analytical reagent
architectural layout
arteria testiculariss
assans
autumn-winter
backlightings
baramin
bisphenol-a
black salves
boltering
car retarder motor
casing blowing
cembali
central treating station
chicken salads
choniognathus reini
cogging effect
cold bleaching
computationally secure
Concepción, R.de la
construction works
controlled combustion
cooling water ciculation
Corfield
crime of abortion
critical parameter
datum line differential
desipiency
digit-recognition system
distant fishing
early planting
egger
Epistle to Philemon
Fistulariidae
flyboys
foghat
Handub
HD Catalogue
height of fundamental triangle
histiocytosis non-lipid
hopper
hot work die steel
hypersynchronizing
ignorative
ilarvirus
includability
incorporeal hereditament
insinuate yourself into sth
interferoetalon
Irupana
keepie-uppie
lateral tomogram of maxillae
lavonda
left ventricular end-diastolic volume
longhanded
LU-LU session type 2
mammary pathology
mass oscillation
maximum permissible diving speed
mechanical bias
mentoring system
milkwood
miner's (personal) lamp
miscellaneous cargo
Mitra
net sales to inventory
Neuroanatomia chemica
non-imaging collector
parochial school
PCTC
pernicious anaemias
personal dividend income
pine root oil
plugged perforation
Polarization Maintaining Fiber
Pomatomidae
pulsed electron impact ion source
punching and shearing machine
pure exchange
quininizing
ray-floret
replunge
roller gauge
Rossi, Aldo
sacred music
semantic domain
sign on
single harness cord
solidarity through division of labour
spiral ribbon mixer
steady-state discharge
take up the glove
tcam node
transmetallating
true nostril
ungulaspis ficicola
unitary transformation group
variable speed-limit sign
vertical anchor
wool-rich blends