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
active-passive metal
al hillah (el hilla)
alternate long and short dash line
angular grate
antimony-yellow
Apamea
apoplexious
austinogebia wuhsienweni
bermuda shortss
casting surface
cathode-ray camera
CDZM
characters per pica
cheirogaleus major
climatic changes
cohesive soil structure
cohesiveness through identification
cold cathode discharge
color-sync processing channel
compulsory registration
contra-acting
corporate planning
coustou
cross chopper
Cynodon arcuatus
diophantines
discrete measles
disposal of depreciable assets
double pitched
drop-testing machine
DSP chip
end-of-burst
engineering job analysis
equivocation characteristics
eyeshines
family ranunculaceaes
familylike
ferro chrome
footplate
frantzens
genus cleomes
genus paeonias
Gormania
hemiatonia apoplectica
high back chair
horseshoe incision
hwan
ice pond
imlays
iridane
Jammu
krewes
l'oiseau
lattice defects
light locomotive
lubricating oil capacity
macleishes
mercuric sulphide
mukdens
multijunctions
nagoyas
oral and maxillofacial surgery
overtempering
pedalings
pentise
pethwind
phagostimulants
pneumatic-control
poikilocarynoses
potentiated
presupperscript
protection window
rated linear speed
reinhabit
remote cut-off
resin fill tank
Robert Alexander Schumann
rouilles
sagenesses
sand tail
scaningapparatu
seq and ack fields
single pressurizator
sorbitan carboxylic ester
stauridium tetras
stegana (steganina) nigrolimbata
stereo.
store away
sun's azimuth table
sweepback agitator
synarthrodial joints
teen-agers
threonyls
Tinospora hainanensis
toughening agent
tunnel-liner
unbirthdays
vapour pressure
volume specific heat
well-recorded
winter-hained
zero object