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
activated carbon method
all-or-nothing
antemortem inspection
antiwomen
artificial serum
backvelder
Barents Island
beisty
Billingford
briarwood
caparas
carpetless
cationic detergents
chrysophyll
church members
columbary
core analysis
crap on
diarra
diphenyl dimethyl ethane
Duddell galvanometer
enhydra lutriss
ensconcing
epithelial cyst
estate administrator
estrin phase
expanded preliminary design
fartherances
fixed crystal
flue dust collector
fluider
flush up
Fosfocin
full astern both
fur burger
gendlin
genus Vespa
gramme ring winding
grinners
hailstorm recorder
half-track
ham fat
hard drive shredder
hemispherical rotor pole
high-flowest
identity diffusion
ilana
impor-tant
kalle
kanny
Khāchrod
Lachesis flavovilidis
Langstedt
leakproof fuel tank
legislatrices
load sheet
loran rate
major diameter relief
mass merchandising
misevaluations
mouloud
Nahuatl language
Nodi lymphatici mesenterici centrales
Northern European
one-chip product
opt-
padina pavonia gaill
parallel tangent method
pelvic part
photochemical processing
policiesand
primary photochemical process
pull someones leg
put up a resistance
Putinisation
pyracrine
quinaria
Ramus prelaminaris
realities
resistor colo(u)r code
return of foreign trade
right of denunciation
rise-time distortion
schedul
Scleria onoei
sea main thermocline
secure storage
separation cell
single-current system
sitalidone
situs
snack
stack switch
swagger coat
three phase hoist motor
three-corner
u.t. 2 time
union three-way cock
valve system
varnish formation
water hammers
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