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


英语课

 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。
学英语单词
acetate fabric
advertising age
Alfred Louis Kroeber
ambriz
American Depositary Receipt
automatic multi-screwdriver
auxiliary function symbol
barrier lowering effect
battening device
birn
bit-depth
bottom brass
branch cable
carrier-based aircraft
chronokymograph
clutch cone
colour flicker effect
comb data-sampling circuit
common stake
conduct disorder
current rip
cyberanarchism
densely populated area
designated successor
diffend
Dirac's constant
dools
Double Guts
entolambdoid fissure
ergalgin
esterifying agent
eurobonds
existing data base
flapcake
flat-compounding
fluoric
forward looking ir (flir)
fuel column
get the word
glazing gasket
haies
Heckerism
herget
hinge-rod
hydrothermal plume
idealized model
individual depreciation
inelastic gel
jet-blacks
jigsaw-puzzle
medium-frequency tube
methane monitoring system
nail fiddle
naso vlamingii
net importer of energy supply
Nigritia
normalized curve
odd periodic autocorrelation
Otranto, Strait of
Oxytropis sitaipaiensis
paralytic shellfish poison(psp)
pit torus
polytyped
porous block type arrester
princeless
professorette
quasi-lagrangian coordinates
quick-view
Ramus occipitotemporalis
reduction-of-compound- lotteries axiom
relativistic electron
resettler
rich-bitches
ride easy
salitrite
SerialKey device
soda cellulose
sortkey
space before
specified peril insurance
specified rate rules
stichopogon peregrinus
straight knurling
sub contract
subsidiary combustion chamber
switch to
tail buoy
tammet
taper sunk-key
TDM - Time Division Multiplexing
the irish famines
thrill-multure
tiny amount
titration of total acidity
Tosk
transformation apparatus
up direction
wave moth
Yates
yo ho ho
Zafrilla
zig-zag scanning order