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
acertain
blue print apparatus
buffalo type
bumptiousness
bus interface module
C. L. N.
canary seeds
cardiac axis
ccitt recommendations i series
centre bit of claw type
cercospora apii fresenius
chauvinists
churchlands
citreon
class libraries
clucche
colinear coaxial antenna
creampuff sale
disappearance and declaration of death
druse crystal
eastin
ecosystem management
electron-proton interaction
electronic facilities
electronic ignition device
elucubrate
excess argon
FAMEX
family
firedamps
flame coating
flameproof apparatus
flour paste
flow normal direction
fugitive wart
g.a.r.y
gabbles
glow stick
guard-ring detector
heavy petroleum spirit
hematine
hydraulic test pressure
hyperbaric oxygenation
improvisatory
insurmountable
irccs
IUMI
Jourdain's disease
Kudeyevskiy
lesser circuIation
ligua
local superconductor
m. coccygicus
manzanares
mark-sense row
medically necessary
Medullomyoblastoma
meteorological survey
mixed-martial-arts
mufas
mugils
natural monopoly
neuropsychiatry
oligaemic
ontonagon
optimum track route
Ozohine
P-P (peak-to-peak)
pacific giant salamanders
palaeoichthyologist
Petersen grab
petite marmites
prednisolamate
push-to-talk handset
quay port
quite go
radar operation automatic log
regeneration
representative measure
self-reversible
shide
snail butter
spiked solution
statistical data base system
steroid-sparing
sticky analysis
Stirling formula
stuarts
subcapsuloperiosteal
swosh
thallotherophyte
torasemide
Toucy
trace separator
tracking performance requirement design
triplet code
utility routines
water resistance of explosive
whizkid
winoxes
winterland
wood chip carrier