时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(七)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Details remain unclear in what led to a Minnesota police officer fatally shooting an Australian woman over the weekend. Minneapolis authorities will only say that the officers were responding to a 911 call about a possible assault when the woman was shot.


Authorities say a 27-year-old man is still missing after flash flood in central Arizona that killed other 9 people. The rushing water came Saturday as people were cooling off in a creek 1 in the Tonto National Forest.


A Jordanian soldier was convicted and sentenced to life in prison with hard labor 2 for the shooting deaths of three US military trainers. The three US Army Green Berets were killed on November 4th, as their convoy 3 waited at the gate to a Jordanian air base.


And a lucky couple is getting a honeymoon 4 in Hawaii after getting engaged at the Garth Brooks 5 concert over the weekend in Oklahoma City. The country singer got wind of commotion 6. He told them if they'd decided 7 to go to Hawaii, he and his wife Trisha Yearwood would pay for it.


Suzanne Yee Gaffney, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 creek
n.小溪,小河,小湾
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
2 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
3 convoy
vt.护送,护卫,护航;n.护送;护送队
  • The convoy was snowed up on the main road.护送队被大雪困在干路上了。
  • Warships will accompany the convoy across the Atlantic.战舰将护送该船队过大西洋。
4 honeymoon
n.蜜月(假期);vi.度蜜月
  • While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
  • The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.这幸福的一对就要去度蜜月了。
5 brooks
n.小溪( brook的名词复数 )
  • Brooks gave the business when Haas caught him with his watch. 哈斯抓到偷他的手表的布鲁克斯时,狠狠地揍了他一顿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Ade and Brooks exchanged blows yesterday and they were severely punished today. 艾德和布鲁克斯昨天打起来了,今天他们受到严厉的惩罚。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 commotion
n.骚动,动乱
  • They made a commotion by yelling at each other in the theatre.他们在剧院里相互争吵,引起了一阵骚乱。
  • Suddenly the whole street was in commotion.突然间,整条街道变得一片混乱。
7 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
学英语单词
alar canals
altitude observed
angle for maximum righting lever
apple bud moth
artillero
autocovariance generating function
automatic telegraph system
axillary arteries
band-rejection filter
Barbados
bionucleonics
brohanskis
brush coat
center deep tank
chain hauled shearer
chain out
coating streak
communities of interest
concolores
cottonseed meal
crystal packaging
cultural-linguistic
curly-heads
cyclophysis
D.B.
depressive psychosis
DFID
diatomite brick
dock warehouse receipt
ectosymbiotic
endotrophic, endotropic
ever-blooming
F.A.C.S., facs
facsimile distortion
faggi
fatty alcohols
fractional termination
general claim agent
girtman
heat pump heating system with supplemental heating
immoderancy
in high condition
in that galley
institute for drug control
International Load Line Record
Jubaland
Karri-Kot
lift to
Love's Labour's Lost
low-frequency induction furnace
marmotas
medaka
microglobulinuria
millstone-quartzite
mosel-saar-ruwer
moving ramp
multiprocessor interconnection networks
noncoal
nutrient requirement
nyree
panic bar
pastorn
phocomelic monstrosity
phoma hibisci-esculenti
plattelander
plyform
Poa smirnowii
porcate
post-zygotic isolation
rabans
rear end plate
regnane
ribanded
ridge plowing
rule-right
sepiola
shrink to nothing
shuttle guard swell
soil liquifation
solacin
Solingen
spectrum distributon function
star-shaped bit
stipple streak
stronger ammonium hydroxide solution
sulfur passivation
sundby
Swertia cuneata
the advantages
thermo-aesthesia
tolans
triangulation tower
tussah shantung
uccas
uncouthness
underdig
Visking
voltage test
white mountain ashes
whoman
wilfortine
windolf