时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(三)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Democrats 1 have forced a one-week delay in the committee vote to President Donald Trump's Supreme 2 Court nominee 3. The Senate Judiciary Committee will now vote on Neil Gorsuch on April 3rd. Yet with solid Republican backing, his confirmation 4 appears to remain on track.


A deadly apartment fire in Oakland, California. At least one person is dead after a four-alarm fire spread through a building on Monday morning. Officials say at least 50 people lived there. The cause is under investigation 5.


The Oakland Raiders will soon have a new home. NFL owners approved their move to Las Vegas. The city offered the team 750 million dollars in public money to move.


She's a popular tourist destination and now she will be staying put through February of next year. New York's mayor announced the Fearless Girl statue will extend its stay on Wall Street, installed to highlight gender 6 equality on corporate 7 boards. The girl stares down another famous statue, the Charging Bull.


Padmananda Rama, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 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》
2 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
3 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
4 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。
5 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
6 gender
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
7 corporate
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
学英语单词
allrounders
Ambridge
anchoring of dislocation
annexed traverse
apparent polar-wander path
artificial precipitation stimulation
as a person
automatic comtrol
automatic throttle
banker's call rate
beside the question
Bible society
CNCL
cold-proof suit
comares
consumer logistics
core mismatch
double-ended boring machine
down for the count
employment discrimination
entering tape
extended dislocation
f-hole
fbst
final pit boundary
finished good
force piece
Galton rank order test
grows on
handkerchief tree
harchik
heavy-isotope buildup
hold one's hands
idempotent of bose-mesnear algebra
isobaric contour chart
judgment proof
ladogas
law of variable proportions
leaping voltage
leopardus pardalis
long-term loan
main supply
mixed yarn
monadic functor
mosely
nailheads
nephrins
nominal operating cell temperature
non-equilibrium polycondensation
nonmetal thermocouple
nuclei pontis
ocean-floor spreading
paraclimax
particle exchange
potential density
propeller characteristic
psycholeptics
reactor trip system
reames
required date
Rocky Comfort
running qualities of a car
running shed
scrims
sentimo
shmuel
sleptwalk
slide valve sleeve
smoke limit characteristics
sod houses
software engineering management model
solid waste management statistics
Solpugida
spice-cake
squelchiest
stadiametric warning
standpatism
start gauge
stramashes
sulphinide
sulphonitrocarburizing
surprise index
swashbucklingly
Synotis solidaginea
tagged frame
tailings chest
thoman
thorium-lead age method
top frame
torpedo effective range indicator
towgher
trandolapril
transaction equation
triangular sector
trullipetalum
underwrought
utahraptors
vamp ... up
ventilation drying
verticimonosporium diffractum
voltage-divider
zaruk