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
adenogynum
adjustable crest
ANDING
anti-blooming target
antifouling forest
ashtanga yoga
big brown eyes
bolwell
canonical cohomology class
check valve plunger guide
chest lateral knife
Choanoflagellata
chromium-bronze
civica
condition of affairs
Cornu Saigae
cotton fabrics
cowke
craterlike
crayonists
cross reference to each other
design file
di-octahedron
dualistical
engine-room artificer
epic film
exhaust reservoir
explicit repudiation
family plethodontidaes
federative
film thermocouple
fuckin
fusarium laricis sawada
genus Armoracia
hand of glory
Hawthorne study
high flash fuel
high-fliers
hypothetical wing venation
incorporated
inertial guidance integrating gyro
inner pillar cell
jelutong
juvenoia
Kamoto
Karabah
Kemble, Fanny
laboratory information management system
Lady wrist watch
left anarchism
lipothymia
maritime association
metal-semiconductor-metal detectors
Mix,Tom
mycoside
navigation chamber
norml
Ophiorrhiza oppositiflora
oxygen myelography
Packet Internet Groper
paragraph numbering
path specification
period of gymnosperms
pharyngopathy
pick ... pocket
plasmid engineering
porcelaneous
principal penalty
private procurement
pungent smell
rappage
reactor dome
recharges
record control type error
Redby
reichel
relativity theories
rvfas
saleps
Scheibler's reagent
shift-in
short code
shuder
sodium hydrogen tartrate
solar electric technology
speed bump
spindle bolster
state forest economy
stereospecific
sucked ass
testing nominative
thalictiin
thiaieptol
ulloa
uncompulsory
unit vector field
universal standard data
Utricularia hirta
valerianas
waist-down
wet wash
write-once read multiple times optical disk