时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(九)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Arizona Senator John McCain has announced he's opposed to the last-minute GOP health care bill aimed at repealing 1 Obamacare. Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine says she's leaning against the measure despite facing pressure from Maine's governor to support it.


Two days after hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico with deadly force, residents continue to fear power could be out for weeks, perhaps even months. Forecasters say the US territory could get even more rain, perhaps as much as 6 inches through Saturday.


Rescuers continue to search for survivors 2 following Mexico's 7.1-magnitude quake. Authorities say some 60 people have been rescued since Tuesday. Friday,the official death toll 3 stood at 286, with more than half the deaths coming in Mexico City.


First Lady Melania Trump 4 has picked up where former first lady Michelle Obama left off, joining school children to plant and harvest vegetables in the White House garden. They planted cabbage, carrots, cauliflower and other vegetables while harvesting peas, radishes and Swiss chard.


Ned Barker, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 repealing
撤销,废除( repeal的现在分词 )
  • In addition, repealing the alternative minimum tax would also help. 此外,废除替代性最低税也会有所帮助。
  • Repealing the investment tax credit. 取消投资税款扣除。
2 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
3 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
4 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。
学英语单词
aligned series
all-inclusive charge of transshipment
all-round crank motion
ant wart
antiparallel cranks
auxiliary vessel
axial point
beaumaris (biwmares)
castering action
Chaulfone
chukotskoye nagorye (chukot ra.)
cmpd
commutative semigroup
conga ( drums )
contrast telephotometer
creative self
culex (culex) quinquefasciatus
data-based microinstruction cycle
deletable
deuteroprism
dolophilodes minchiensis
double domicile
double-crossing
El Sobrante
estrodur
Eucalypt grandis
expectations
extragalactic radio astronomy
famine-reliefs
feeds the fish
Fergusson
filtering rate
flat descriptor
form library maintenance
free field current response
Fresh Water Trout
gradient freezing
grey's
haitian-american
HQNO
humason
hyperbolic error
immunoceuticals
intercrescence
into sheaves
intrusive rocks
inverse hyper-geometric distribution
iron-tree
JJ
kisses away
Lapu-Lapu
lee wave
lifting barrier
light-limbed
limonia tuta
Litzendorf
low efficiency
luminescence spectrophotometer
macromitrium taiwanense
mactilburgh
majendies
meat
mechanics of biomembranes
micro-encapsulated diet
mild steel
monodispersion
morchella crassipess
mucopurulent stool
Nansangaan
native metal
octopian
ocular capsule
optical irradiation
parabolic rate law
Parapholis incurva
peeker
peracchi
Poggendorff illusion
political contest model
queueing system
Raimondi
ring washer
rous
sceptire
signature letter
skinned fish
sleepaway
spastic miosis
spine-cell
spring fastener
tape trailer
TEMP (temporary)
text cipher
tombak
Trichodectes equi
unquietable
urticaria congelation
vacuum couch
vane sensor
vanoy
virtualises
water-baseds