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
'toons
ADPL
Angelica morrisonicola
anticorrosive coat
Assaikio
balloon bombs
Baranoa
bromargyrite
broomer
cantilever aerotriangulation
chenopodioides
circumbilivagination
citrus whitefly
clean it out
control rod drive line
corrosions
curations
dallaways
dantowitz
design aerodynamics
Dice City
droningly
emblooming
engage (oneself) to/be engaged to
entonoxes
excess-values
factory-productions
fall into the morass of
family ascaridaes
field tubes
fluorescence detector
foliolar
furriers' sword dance (hungary)
generalized adjustment
hand grinding
handler parameter
hydraulically powered silage grab
import sundry charges
lustrous fiber
lycids
malt liquor
Middelbeers
mode of fluidization
monomineralic rocks
moortop
multiplication of probabilities
neon tester
net of surfaces
neutrophilous
new vehicle
Nitrosospira
Nizhnetavdinskiy Rayon
non-coherent optical detector
Nun, R.
operations' objective
original expiration date
over-assessment
Pancreabil
Parabolin
photomodulator
picture-shading signal
polyptote
Potentilla gelida
pre-install
prenotion
proper values
psychoneurology
quirinale
radar meteor
redenbaugh
regeneration frequency
responsible crew system
Rhamnella forrestii
running under braking
sacralising
santalinus
satz
scale -down
sealed fire area
secretory canal
seldes
send off someone
signed and sealed
slow poke
solvent isotope effect
stiffened compression element
Tazawako
Te.
test fire point
test in depth
to stow the hold
touchdown and liftoff area
Transerit
transmutest
trunk wire
unappropriated surplus account
UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration
univariant relaxation method
valmont
wanna know
wantful
yerida