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。
学英语单词
ability to function
aeetonemic
ailanthus malabarica dc
amplitude keying
anchor wire
antihydropic
antimonarchicalness
avisodomist
beach resort
biegen
blade pitgh
block multiplexor channel
BPharm
capacitances
cittern-head
combining form
Currency diversification
daguin
deaeration chamber
decide the case
devilade
disk camera
duty free import
Ellobiophrya
Emtebebesl
engagement or employment
event time
expanded air
family card
fig-boy
finitistic space
fluctuate
fly tipper
full service reduction
fusoun
gelatinisation
glass filter cloth
gravity balanced hatchcover
hard porn
hotspot
Itori
Japanese beetle
jaundices
Keegan
keyboard template
law of least square
lord george gordon byrons
make no question of something
mawri
maximal divisible subgroup
Maya, Pulau
measured curve
Methylstana-zole
multicavity mold
NAWCAD
non-negative characteristic form
Norminal GNP
oceanic hydrometeorology station
onther
oririme
outglittering
pad stamping machine
photophoe
postcentral
preserving melon
program modelling
pulse sharpening
put sb. in a bag
Quercus chingsiensis
rapid-firer
receive channel
reduced transparency
reductive methylation
resonant absorber
retamas
rhododendron californicums
ribichloric acid
rights-
sand cap
scandalling
shiftning
special synchronous machine
specific retention
spermatocystectomy
split switch
square sennit
strigolactones
subgrant
Sylvilagus
tactile vocal fremitus
tape executive program
telemetacarpal
textphone
thalibrunimine
thin membrane
third harmonic attenuation
to set the pace
troupe
unitary restriction
upholstered-seat coach
user group