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
ability-to-pay principle of taxation
aciie
african grays
Agapetes pyrolifolia
Ammit
anti-cultural
appetitious
apple sucker
basic water content
beachsalmon
Bhutia
biogeologists
blanking pedestal
blue-tongued skink
brouages
channelized
cherry-brandy
child helping agency
circumerration
cloudwashed
coniotoxicosis
contractings-out
convoluted seminiferous tub tubules
copper(ii) carbonate
device-level font resource
Deyeuxia petelotii
diazoparaffins
diplodia ricinella
discongruities
double-dog dare
Ena
enfranchised company
environment oxygen content
Ethamicort
ethyl sulfocyanide
exit stage left
exploratory bore-hole
Explore all avenues
extracting method
fast acting
feel sure about
ferrite-core loop antenna
gagan
generalized system of preference
glamour-puss
Golaya, Gora
guns blazing
hierarchical diffusion
homeotherapy
homoneura (homoneura) simplicissima
interrecord gap
Italian pottery
Meduno
milk strainer
more dead than alive
music-box
myelocone
New Taiton
no-where
O2V
overrent
paloheimo
Peter-penny
petromyzontids
phone camera
playfriends
power bus
put on style
radar echo box
random scan function
reading gun
reclon
releasing device
revenues are over expenditures
reversed phase coil
Rosa Seamount
Rufen-P4
saponaceous liquid wastes
Saprosan
see into a stone wall
sidesaddle
site designation memorandum
sodium polysulphide
sphygmometer
sylv
synsedimentary fault
temenggong
the briny
the man in the moon
Tien-pao
time-scale calibration method
tin dredging
Tozen
traffic peak flow
travesier
unlighted
urheen
USM (ultrasonic stress meter)
viridian
welding reheat cracking
Wollaston, Lake
yawing angle