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.


Washington police say a woman described as erratic 1 and aggressive drove a car into a US Capitol Police cruiser near the US Capitol. She was later taken into custody 2. Police say shots were fired during the arrest, but there were no injuries.


UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Wednesday that Britain has triggered the European Union divorce process. May said the Article 50 of the EU's key treaty process was underway in accordance with the wishes of the British people.


President Donald Trump 3 is vowing 4 to step up efforts to combat the nation's addiction 5 crisis. The president held a round-table with New Jersey 6 Governor Chris Christie, launching a new addiction commission that Trump has asked his former rival to chair.


And a farmyard pig in South Africa is causing a stir in the art world with the unique talent for painting. "Pigcasso" was saved from slaughter 7 and now brings home the bacon by selling her colorful creations around the world.


Emily Roseman, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 erratic
adj.古怪的,反复无常的,不稳定的
  • The old man had always been cranky and erratic.那老头儿性情古怪,反复无常。
  • The erratic fluctuation of market prices is in consequence of unstable economy.经济波动致使市场物价忽起忽落。
2 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
3 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
4 vowing
起誓,发誓(vow的现在分词形式)
  • President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
  • President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。
5 addiction
n.上瘾入迷,嗜好
  • He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
  • Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
6 jersey
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
7 slaughter
n.屠杀,屠宰;vt.屠杀,宰杀
  • I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
  • Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。
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aluminum rhodanide
apudomas
automatic balancing display device
averaging time
ball-bustings
Ban Na Kang
be adroit at
bone standing
butkevicius
capotes
causative agents
chlororespiration
circular mill
civic beauty
closing of an account
code of ethics for the exchange of information
counseling in marital problem
cuprophan
Cymbidium paucifolium
digitogenin
dignitorial
discretionary wiring
doctrination
dumping truck
ellingtons
enginerooms
extremely low water level spring tide
fexas
fight with the glove on
flindosa
free-floaters
gantry crane with traversing jib crane
genderswapping
generalized convex function
genus Ochroma
get hold of
glass partition
global politics
gudgeon of universal joint
heeby jeebies
Hell's Angel
high-speed generator
HISG
Histazylamine
hydraulic turbine
infrafoliar
input-signal design
invalescence
iodopyrrole
jecoral percussion sound
lick up
light porous clay brick
lymph space
meaguer
meter-angle
millinewton
mixed-base number
mobile libraries
Mortierellaceae
moving prominence flare
myovascular insufficiency
nanosomia primordialis
narcocorrido
nasal hemianopsia
new moons
Newton's theory of gravitation
normalalloy
novatian
octicizer
people say that
Piatt County
positional servomechanism
reclaimed
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safe allowable stress
sand proportioner
sardana
secure voice unit
shop union
sink the ivories
sodium lauryl sulphate
stollman
straight ball
stress tests
tick typhus
tin alloy
to the depth(s) of
top-slicing
total erosion
trigonal hole
u-tube viscometer
Umranwāli
universal computer series
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vaso
vast floe
vector notation
vehicle registration document
vehicular bump-integrator
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