时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(一)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned by the Special Prosecutor 1 Robert Mueller's team last week in the investigation 2 of Russian interference in the US election. President Trump 3 says he's not at all concerned with what Sessions may have told prosecutors 4.


A 15-year-old boy is in custody 5 in western Kentucky after a shooting at a rural high school. Two fifteen-year-olds died in the shooting. 17 other people were wounded.


A Mexican man living illegally in the US is accused of using his job as an Uber driver to target intoxicated 6 young women. Alfonso Alarcon-Nunez is accused of raping 7 and robbing four women northwest of Los Angeles.


And Oprah Winfrey visited the Alabama grave of Recy Taylor, a woman she spoke 8 about in her Golden Globes speech. Taylor died last month. Back in 1944, six white men raped 9 Taylor who is black. The men admitted the assault. But two all-white grand juries declined to indict 10 them.


Matt Small, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 prosecutor
n.起诉人;检察官,公诉人
  • The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
  • The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。
2 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
3 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。
4 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
5 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
6 intoxicated
喝醉的,极其兴奋的
  • She was intoxicated with success. 她为成功所陶醉。
  • They became deeply intoxicated and totally disoriented. 他们酩酊大醉,东南西北全然不辨。
7 raping
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的现在分词 );强奸
  • In response, Charles VI sent a punitive expedition to Brittany, raping and killing the populace. 作为报复,查理六世派军讨伐布列塔尼,奸淫杀戮平民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The conquerors marched on, burning, killing, raping and plundering as they went. 征服者所到之处烧杀奸掠,无所不做。 来自互联网
8 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
9 raped
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 );强奸
  • A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
  • We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致,不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句
10 indict
v.起诉,控告,指控
  • You can't indict whole people for the crudeness of a few.您不能因少数人的粗暴行为就控诉整个民族。
  • I can indict you for abducting high school student.我可以告你诱拐中学生。
学英语单词
.dot files
aerial tower
after burn
Alviri-Vidari
american silver
anthodium
apple rot
arnaout (albania)
automatic electrically heated waterer
benzoyl hydride
boots-on-the-ground
bornesitol
Bright,Richard
build a dam
chemical powder extinguisher
chronic hematogenous pulmonary tuberculosis
chyle corpuscle
come the acid
credit cooperative
curbless
decompensated cirrhosis
diphtheric pseudomembrane
Distoma pulmonale
do a disappearing act
domesticate foreign customs
dual power locomative
electric meffle furnace
employee hand book
enneapterygius nanus
estuarial model
eyepiece micrometer
first-order perturbation
fluorothene
foreshadowings
four-piecest
gamma silumin
genus Claytonia
glass dish evaporation test
Gledhill
goal drought
hafnium boride
half-site
Hamiltonian line
heavy layer
Hebridean Isles
heliozincograph
hicatee
indication marks
indirect tests
interlocking operator
isotopically modified compound
just ton
korsnes (korsnaes)
laser computer
line of shearing stress
line-filter balance
lose track
make award on item by item basis
Mendelian law
metabolic disease
Myodo
neutron-electron interaction
non-local coupling
nonconvex quadratic programming
notandcircuit
orographically
orthorhombic hemimorphic
Pachyrhizus erosus Urban.
Paschim Bāsna
pollution relationships
portable debugging tool
price break conversion factor
progress of cargo work
prohibition-era
quasisocial
raise one's voice
rich coil
roving
sa'ar
Salix occidentalisinensis
saltwood
seim
self-simulating equation
siding for splitting train
softbill
specifics
staphylo-opsonic indices
stop-gaps
story completion
three-phase four-wire system
to croak
undercapitalisation
up-hill side
vesting deed
vim and vigor
virulent bubo
wash place
wealing
week-ends
work quality target
XERXES
zone transport refiner