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
agricultural goods
air braking tachometer
anastigmator
assimilation
bad or doubtful debt
balaguers
be put upon
Bessel function of the first kind
blending chart
blueliners
bootsey
Bude lights
centrifugal nerve
Chsssaignac's tubercies
combined thrust and radial bearing
congelation
depositees
depth-dose
dihydrooratic acid
diluted crude transport
dirj (daraj)
disstress frequency
dominican mahoganies
emergency cardiac pacing
end-of-life salvage value
enlarges on
Ettinghausen cooler
exchange carrier
feudal rent exploitation
frrction load
fundamental change of circumstances
gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery system
geostrategists
granuloblastoma
hickish
humites
Hydrocotyle ramiflora
Hyfil
imbonity
in situ concrete
instructives
japanese waltzing mice
jordanellas
kerrigan
Kir-Shehr
latensifications
levosarcolysin
lift pipe
LORAN double slave
lyotard
macrological
maianthemum bifoliums
manganic manganous oxide
membrane seal mechanical pump
model output statistics (mos)
monocarpous ovary
moving pollution source
multiple-slide forming
neutrocytopenia
nominal aphasia
offhandish
operatizes
Ormosia saxatilis
overstretch
oxie
P-DHP
panel polling
pararhymes
Ploegsteert
polyvanadic acid
positive-iron core
potentially dangerous
powch
power-holders
qualitative test for calcium in urine
quarrell
quite a few
radiation detecting device
radio biology
reaccrediting
reactor-mixer
reading stones
regroundings
rural income
scogin
scouring of levee or bank
Silverites
spine robot
taylor (series) expansion
tc-dtpas
thermomigration
toust
trepanation and drainage
unqualified certificate
unquantifiables
unskilled worker
UYP
vehicle mark
Vitrea
whewers
yoro