时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2015(九)月


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 This is AP News Minute. 1. * Pope Francis has finally touched down in the US after leaving Cuba on Tuesday. The pontiff arrived at Joint 1 Base Andrews and headed to 2-day visit to Washington DC where he will meet President Obama and deliver remarks at Congress. 2. Retired 2 US Army General David Petraeus has apologized to Congress for sharing classified information with his biographer and mistress Paula Broadwell. Petraeus called the indiscretion ‘a serious mistake’. 3. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said the US should never be a theocracy 3 days after making anti-Muslim remarks on a TV interview. Top Muslim American officials have called for Carson to drop out the 2016 race. 4. And scientists in Alaska have made a prehistoric 4 discovery – plant-eating dinosaur 5. The animal was a variety of hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur that roamed in herds 6. The fossils were found in rock deposited 69 million years ago.



1 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
2 retired
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
3 theocracy
n.神权政治;僧侣政治
  • Shangzhou was an important period for the formation and development of theocracy.商周时期是神权政治形成与发展的重要阶段。
  • The Muslim brothers look as if they will opt for civil society rather than theocracy.穆斯林兄弟看起来好像更适合文明的社会,而非神权统治。
4 prehistoric
adj.(有记载的)历史以前的,史前的,古老的
  • They have found prehistoric remains.他们发现了史前遗迹。
  • It was rather like an exhibition of prehistoric electronic equipment.这儿倒像是在展览古老的电子设备。
5 dinosaur
n.恐龙
  • Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击?
  • He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。
6 herds
兽群( herd的名词复数 ); 牧群; 人群; 群众
  • Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
  • There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。
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