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
acronis
alderwood manor
Altnaharra
antipolarity
arbane
Arwala
assignable interest
backslashed
bedropping
beechwood creosote
by-street
carcerals
cathode lug
chloropsia
cladophora sakaii
clamp hook
code bar
conjugate series
controllable spark gap
creoles
customs flag
cuvet adapter
cylinder-type tank
day-school
denominator
diglycol aldehyde
electron cyclotron resonance heating
Estolate
expected life
follow something up
gasket piece-cutting machine
got the point
gypsyweed
high-speed ground transport system
HSPG
hydraulic tension regulator
intermediate switching region
intermittent moderate rain
laconicly
lavoy
lead disilicate
lunisolar tide
lyssacine
macaroon
marginal gingiva
mesenteric artery embolization
methallenstril
Minimum Investment
monetary and credit control
moonery
multipurpose timber-harvesting machine
neums
nonsmoothed
nonvolitional
over-allocations
overseas legal reserve
oxanthrenes
Pareto solution
Peoples Insurance Company of China
pixote
pneumatomete
Pnol
polytraumatism
portio dura
postcerebellar
potassium tartrate
power level control
pre-flight calibration
primordial gut
publishers requirements for industry standard metadata
Qomolangma, Mount
rakestraws
Ranunculus grandis
red fish
Remote Desktop Protocol
remove risers
residual shear strength
retinopathies
runabout
rupture velocity
Sanluri
saw guard
senior relative
sets on
shortsightedness
shutdown period
siphonapterology
SNA (systems network architecture)
station-line facilities
steam-turbine lubricating system
subitaneousness
synergisms
t.v.tuner
theoretical space relationship
Tillac
training system
tybamate
unbenefited
unbenign
variable-cell method
well-rewardeds
Yanadani