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
a rail advice
acute dilatation of stomach
AGLS
air switching valve
alphanumerical keyboard device
arbitrariness
arris-wise paving
Artz press sheet
as - built drawings
average cost profit rate
basic format generator
black spruces
brake shoe adjusting cam bolt
carrier metal
cartridge disk loading
circe
citracs
classification of fuzzy functions
component interaction
container-handling
copyboys
core melt probability
dehaemoglobinize
DMA data transfer
DNP-ficoll
electronic leather area measuring machine
emery-iron roll rice polisher
enabled transition
equation of time of abstracts
euphorbia helioscopias
fireroom
fluxing banding
framp
gear and pinion drive
Golmānkhāneh
Huertas, C.de las
hydrogenolyses
iabies
ignipedites
inscrutable fault
intelligence age
joint center
law of capitalistic accumulation
ligular scar
low voltage klystron
magnetomyography
mancinus
mean time between failures(mtbf)
metric fine thread
microsphaera astragali (dc.) trevisan
multiplication
nargoline
non-bleed type
obtainers
oecesis
oil filling platform
oil putty
parallel shaft reduction gear
pennants
peritectic crystal
photocell type smokemeter
photorelease
posthemorrhagic
price-specie-flow mechanism
propylene chlorohydrin
psittacine
radix brevis ganglii cilaris
re-submit
responsible trading
roll in wealth
rotating off axis blade
sanyassin
selective measuring system
self-denying
slaked-lime
Sloanea formosana
Somerset I.
Sri Aman
standbies
state variables
subfamily Smilacaceae
surface sketch
system of rotating axes
taint meats
thedes
thizamide
three-colours
thumb drives
timber bearing block
time-varying reactance
towing rail
tricyclic dibenzopyran
trimazinol
tropotaxis
unbit
underground irrigation
unipolycondensation
universal grinding machine external
urethrometry
valve inside plunger pin
veined mercury deposit
W Virginis stars