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
accomplices
alphabet general sense
aquile
asyo
aurora yellow
Azerbajdzhan Republic
bardinet
bearing sets
block justifying machine
bony cranium
bottom load
certificate for advance surrender of export exchange
claen space clause
Cohnheim's areas
concentration direct reading
crab-eating
cramden
crisp picture
cum sluts
decision vector
degree finish
descend on the right side of fence
Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies .
disbalance
domestic-equity
duty paid proof
dysmetabolism
electronic numerical integration calculator
emergency electric supply unit
external eonomy
fattener
felushko
ferreal
Furthest Mosque
gear-reducer
glabrousness
glidepath tracking (gpt)
global coverage
goods packing
Gosden
horse marrow fat
hypakusis
incision and drainage of external auditory canal
inflacession
Ipewik R.
Karstveld
laminar shear
laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy
locally path connected
Louis, Morris
lower shed
Luxora
macroscopic total cross-section
Maoum Pen.
mechanical bar
mechanical ventilating system
minimum entropy estimation
mission critical
moonbases
morvens
neuroarthritic
nome
omegon
oothecin
outfall
over-enjoyed
parental investment
peganum harmala l.
powiat
pseudorandom sequence
puerperal aphasia
question-times
reimbursible service
retrogressive lap winding
rieng
road cut
Rochfortbridge
run an eye over
single face mechanical sealing
Sinostomatograptus
speiser
stab neutrophil leukocyte
stop-start chromatograph
straightenable
stress corrosion
substantive evidence
swell-headness
take in flank
the Adirondack Mountains
tilia amurensis rupr.
trochanterofemoral
trochantlnian
two-pulse counting circuit
two-slit interferometer
Tylophora astephanoides
type in something
wartpox
water butt
weak tripleability theorem
Whether Customs Cleared or Not
worldwide basis
worry along