时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2015(八)月


英语课

 This is AP News Minute. 1. A man who shot and killed a TV reporter and photographer as they delivered a live TV report in southwest Virginia has died after shooting and killing 1 himself. The gunman identified as Vester Flanagan was reporter at the Station WDBJ who has been fired from a job two years ago. 2. James Holmes, the Aurora 2 Colorado theater shooter, will spend the rest of his life behind bars. The judge said he had no choice in the sentence after jury’s deadlock 3 over the punishment. 3. Amelia Boynton Robinson, who held President Obama’s hand earlier this year during the 50th anniversary of the march on Selma, has died at the age of 104. The civil rights activist 4 helped lead the march and became the first black woman to run for Congress for Alabama. 4. President Obama welcomed the WNBA Phoenix 5 Mercury to the White House to honor the team for wimming the most recent WNBA Championship.



1 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 aurora
n.极光
  • The aurora is one of nature's most awesome spectacles.极光是自然界最可畏的奇观之一。
  • Over the polar regions we should see aurora.在极地高空,我们会看到极光。
3 deadlock
n.僵局,僵持
  • The negotiations reached a deadlock after two hours.两小时后,谈判陷入了僵局。
  • The employers and strikers are at a deadlock over the wage.雇主和罢工者在工资问题上相持不下。
4 activist
n.活动分子,积极分子
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
5 phoenix
n.凤凰,长生(不死)鸟;引申为重生
  • The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
  • The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
学英语单词
adjunction transformation
administrative powers
American ostriches
analog-to digital converter
arm rest switch
bottled gas
cabin cruiser
classification of buildings
computerised editing and laser typesetting
concentrate one's attention on sth
datolites
diethylsebacate
dissolution method
electrolytic descaling
epinephroectomy
Ershui Township
Eudoxian
external meatal cartilage
flagellomere
food substance
fusible frit label
fuze sensitivity
geological report
Gerald Ford
Germanicists
giro
HAFP
Hattie leaf
hedg
hiero
histogram equalization
homologously
Hymenolepis fraterna
idiophrenic insanity
incredulousness
information (in information processing)
Integrated Missile Early Warning Satellite
interface message processor throughput
inverse definite relay
jembrana centralis
kelian
khao kriab
Laphygma exigua
lilac concrete
line drawing
locally compact division algebra
long lived assets
methoxydimethyltryptamines
mickey-take
mobile player
moonstone effect
multisequential system
naai
narrow-bodies
note to order
Philippine Islands
pku tests
planishing die
plushery
podocarpus macrophylla D.Don
poll deed
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
positive zero scale
priceless
process communication block
proterguride
Prunus mongolica
Pyrenaria spectabilis
quenching bath
ragged right
releasing variety
Robertson I.
sasrsesas-s
sawmilled
semilogarithmic model
shock proof mounting
simulator load
snow-forest climate
sodium gold sulfite
sour one's cheeks
southern arrow wood
specific heat of soil
spillage solution
stored energy
struckthrough
subrepresentations
super video graphics adaptor
super-popular
takemitsu
Tentone
thickset
thiethylperazine dimaleate
thiodeoxykanamycin
tiepiece
time modulation technique
topical anaesthetics
tubular ovipositor
unbustling
unguiculated
Vagina processus styloidei
waspishly
white dextrine