时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


A 25-year-old US soldier who was killed in Niger along with three other US troops has been laid to rest in South Florida. Residents lined the streets with some carrying US flags as the casket carrying La David Johnson passed by on the way to the cemetery 1 where friends and families said their final goodbyes.


President Donald Trump 2 said he has no plan to block the scheduled release of thousands of never-before-seen government documents related to the assassination 3 of President John F. Kennedy. President Donald Trump made the announcement as the National Archives approaches its deadline for the release.


Egyptian security officials say at least 55 policemen, including 20 officers and more than 30 conscripts, have been killed in a shoot-out during a raid on a militant 4 hideout. It happened about 85 miles from Cairo.


BASE jumpers from around the globe converged 5 on West Virginia Saturday to participate in this year's Bridge Day Festival. The bridge spans the New River Gorge 6. The drop is almost 900 feet. This is the festival's 38th year.


Ned Barker, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 cemetery
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
2 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。
3 assassination
n.暗杀;暗杀事件
  • The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
  • Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年,林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
4 militant
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
5 converged
v.(线条、运动的物体等)会于一点( converge的过去式 );(趋于)相似或相同;人或车辆汇集;聚集
  • Thousands of supporters converged on London for the rally. 成千上万的支持者从四面八方汇聚伦敦举行集会。
  • People converged on the political meeting from all parts of the city. 人们从城市的四面八方涌向这次政治集会。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 gorge
n.咽喉,胃,暴食,山峡;v.塞饱,狼吞虎咽地吃
  • East of the gorge leveled out.峡谷东面地势变得平坦起来。
  • It made my gorge rise to hear the news.这消息令我作呕。
学英语单词
a-couple
ableu
adjustable discharge gear pump
angel's song
Anglesey
armoured personnel carriers
be glutted with
be no party to
bequeath
bollixed
Borsche carbazole synthesis
bowline bridle
casaubons
chechakos
chemical sizing
Chiritopsis bipinnatifida
classification of gravitational erosion
Clerodendrum villosum
computer sex
cone flour mill
conquerant
coronel suarez
credit bureau
dareful
Delta Flipper anchor
Denguin
deskater
digitenolide
dust separation
electrothermy
equi-volume sphere
etablissement
eyed eggs
farnum
flag salute
flakers
flocculonoddular lobe
free piston gasifier
gainfulnesses
genus tenrecs
goodacre
Güntersberge
heavy camber
heliolongitude
Hermite, Is.
hypocycloid of four cusps
ibrox
iife
Kenny treatment
Kingidium braceanum
lebensfeld
leninist party
Lunca
lutars
maculutea
mechanical ventilation system
metrosynizesis
monosodium 5-allyl-5-isopropylbarbiturate
moonstrucks
morel-kraepelin(disease)
navicula longa
network socket
Oakshade
olivium
original gross rate
outside diameter of mounted snap ring
overplying
palm wine
Palumbo
parayl
parity option
paroli
philatory
point ga(u)ge
possibles bag
powder plug arc(ppa) welding
preoperative
proven reactor type
pseudoreserpine
reward-to-variability ratio
rudest
sandburgs
self-grafting
sell sth forward
senecio scandens incisus
shrinking processes
Smithfield Market
sociology of communication
sparse linear equation package
sq sequence
stray birds
structural weight
subpoena ad testificandum
subsonic diffuser
system interconnection transformer
T- connector T
Tarakan, Pulau
totalizing puncher
triethyl silicon
two circle goniometer
wheel hub stud
xenocatantops brachycerus