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
acrylic resin varnish
albumen glue
aminoic acid
amplitude analysis
ANNALIDA
auto-pack
batch material
BauxiteI
bias by
carriwitchet
Ceratodon
charring treatment
chiliburger
Comrie Glacier
consonants
conversively
cross-connected generator
custom culture
desalvos
dialuminum
differone
direct pharyngoscopy
efformed
electric disturbance
evaluation software for Hanzi coding input
fast rewind control
feminine-hygiene
fire fighting
gaining twist
gigantactis vanhoeffeni
golf caddie
gratuitum
graviscalars
GUI
gunn (diode) source
halt cycle
hazardous substance
hettinger
imaginal operation
interserv
irregular jettison
koltsovo
lean towards
liquid filler
liquidation of subsidiary
Long Parliament
mechanical koji preparation
mercifies
metabolus nitididorsis
minicassette
musculi mylopharyngeus
nasi goreng
one time consumption
over-mastery
paleta
parasitotropism
Pashu
personal service
pig-nose turtle
Pocitos
pornograph
postitions
postulated steam line break
prelaminated
privy signet
propionyloxy
punctilious
regulating relay
regulator check nut
resumption of play
Rigidulae
rockfilled crib weir
Royal Courts of Justice
Sapindaceidites
sash
searchlight battery
secondary union
service wear
service-robotics
Sheep-market
snowslip
solemn war
spring suspended movable stripper
static image tube
steam cooled roof superheater
Stockholmers
strategic outline chart
surface conduit wire
Tao
task status index
the evening star
thiamine propyl disulfide
tunbs
two electrode valve
underfooting
unilateral denunciation
unlucky star
unsupposed
urinary antiseptics
vertical splitter
weathered zone
Zverino