时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(一)月


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This is AP News Minute.


President Barack Obama defended his decision to grant clemency 1 to convicted leaker Chelsea Manning. Mr. Obama made the comments at the White House Wednesday during his last press conference as president. The president said he felt comfortable justice has been served and Manning has served a tough prison sentence.


Donald Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency says that climate change is real. This came during Scott Pruitt's Senate confirmation 2 hearing in response to questions by Democrats 3. Pruitt's response breaks with both the president-elect and his own past statements.


Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara are both in a Texas hospital. The 92-year-old was admitted over the weekend for shortness of breath, while Mrs. Bush was reportedly admitted as a precaution after experiencing fatigue 4 and coughing.


And the world's oldest panda in captivity 5 reached a major milestone 6 Wednesday, celebrating her 37th birthday in a breeding center in China. The average lifespan for a panda in the wild is reportedly 18 to 20 years, while in captivity, it's 30 years.


Suzanne Yee Gaffney, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 clemency
n.温和,仁慈,宽厚
  • The question of clemency would rest with the King.宽大处理问题,将由国王决定。
  • They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书。
2 confirmation
n.证实,确认,批准
  • We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
  • We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前,我们需要书面确认。
3 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》
4 fatigue
n.疲劳,劳累
  • The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.这位老妇人不能忍受长途旅行的疲劳。
  • I have got over my weakness and fatigue.我已从虚弱和疲劳中恢复过来了。
5 captivity
n.囚禁;被俘;束缚
  • A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
  • He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。
6 milestone
n.里程碑;划时代的事件
  • The film proved to be a milestone in the history of cinema.事实证明这部影片是电影史上的一个里程碑。
  • I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。
学英语单词
absorber rod guide tube
air potato
approaching and leaving-shore maneuvering
Asarum forbesi
babassu kernel oil
balanced quadrature modulation
be met with
bottom lift test
bounded measure space
caryophylloid dicot genera
classification of viruses
coal refuse
cognitive decline
complex simply connected analytic Lie group
cone and plate viscosimeter
constant voltage system
cooling pool
copicides
counter-vindication
Dado-head
dead certainty
dead sea scrollss
densification
diamondwoods
diluting compartment
employee fringe benefit
enpromate
environment correction factor
family Ginkgoaceae
filling gold
four-card montes
fourfold axis
Fourier spectrum
friendship bench
fuel-changing chamber
Galanthamium
global statistics
grochowski
Houdry flow catalytic cracking
intumescing
keep one step ahead
Kildalkey
Kimpanga
laser theory
ledger control
levyings
lift axis
Limited Partnership Unit
madrigals
mandibulo-
manjee
material production
medal winners
meinhardt
midpoint
mizzens
morehene
muntingias
oscillation bearing
overmaturation
P-governor
pegoterate
Persicarioipollis
podrs
Polygonum plebeium
powdered lubricant
Pseudosaccharomycetes
railyard
read-out station
real estate development
retroflexed
rotundifoliums
salvage pump
schiffman
school of dentistry
shadow-bank
silvestrene
single-phase arc welding rectifier
Smithia blanda
sonores
Spacelab-1 experiment
straight-forward mode
strenuous vibration
sulphosuccinates
supracoxal
surface antenna
system of jurisprudence
teamkill
till the land
Tipler cylinder
Trichosteleum
trico
truck-tire remover
trullipetalum
tuche
unsaturated cloud
uterus masculinus
valorousness
ventriculose
vittorias
wangler
Zarayskiy Rayon