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
ace buddy
across-the-street
Administration of drugs
alerting services
anopheles (cellia) splendidus
barren sow
be done to the world
bondes
bookery
boron-filled ionization chamber
bovine brucellosis
bread slicer
Butt-carriage
Caldecott Medal
capital expenditure & current expenditure
carmo do paranaiba
catch my drift
centre position
chain rigidity
Chamaesium thalictrifolium
closed marginal geosyncline
colic veins
corectome
cyclononadiene
dethanolomine
Dipsocoroidea
DL-Xylose
dragged up
dramaction
Dryopteris goldiana
effect of deposits within the boiler
eurotium herbariorum
external conditions
featherpated
fistula in ano
formyl radical
friction-rolling hatchcover
ginger wine
gracelands
half tunnel
hypocitricuria
hysteriform
jeffry
kinetic height
L.F.D.
Langerhans islets
lead deposits
lipotrophic
lithonates
loading and unloading quality conformity rate
lope de vegas
low speed mill
malamoccoes
maritme radio navigation mobile station
Metchnikovellida
nehi
normal color photograph
organ genitalia
oversmite
Peddāpuram
pedestrian crossing devices
pitot log
pivotal fault
plowlands
plunging necklines
precompensated
quinin camphorate
Radar scan.
real-time agent
regular mesh point
residual sideband transmission system
retractor fiber
rhabdophane-(Ce)
saturation jamming
schallert
scythebill
self-starting
sequently
side-pull
signing-on
small screw torch
solhs
solid skirt piston
sour docks
special tool steel
spin-stretching
spring manometer
St-Mathurin
ST_sadness_weeping-and-crying
steery
stepgrandmothers
sulfathiazole ointment
surface equilibrium
taggert
that's life
trivia
twist propagation
undetachably
waveshaping
woodhen
YSAN
zinc hogbomite