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.


Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are expected back on the job on Tuesday with the government open for business. Republicans promised democrats 1 that the Senate will soon address the plight 2 of young immigrant DACA recipients 3.


Vice 4 President Mike Pence went to Jordan where he defended President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The move has drawn 5 protests from Palestinians and Arab leaders.


Pennsylvania's supreme 6 court ruled the state's congressional districts violate the state's constitution with boundaries drawn to help Republicans win. The court gave legislators until February 9th to draw a new map.


And Bill Cosby performed at a Philadelphia Jazz club. He got a warm welcome from the crowd and did not discuss his upcoming sexual assault retrial.


Shirley Smith, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 democrats
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 plight
n.困境,境况,誓约,艰难;vt.宣誓,保证,约定
  • The leader was much concerned over the plight of the refugees.那位领袖对难民的困境很担忧。
  • She was in a most helpless plight.她真不知如何是好。
3 recipients
adj.接受的;受领的;容纳的;愿意接受的n.收件人;接受者;受领者;接受器
  • The recipients of the prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者的姓名登在报上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The recipients of prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者名单登在报上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
5 drawn
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
6 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
学英语单词
absorber material
Abādān, Jazīreh-ye
aldosteronism
Alexandria Bay
aliased page
automatic phase control system
Bessel integral
Bilzerian
blander
bridelock
bureaus of engraving and printing
Burnley
caprylaldehyde oxime
car glass
catch-phrase
choconine
circumorbital bones
composition material
constitutional monarchies
contract in restraint of trade
counteraccuse
crook warp
cross-Strait relations
deallocation of activation record
donor fatigue
electronic signalling device
encrely
etch-pit counting method
five-sided
general migration
geometric displacement
getquota
grading into uniform size
guanine-nucleotides
health preserving with drugs
home-sick
horizontal magnetic intensity
industrial size
insolubly
instinct practice theory
iribarne
Italianare
Kano
knorr
Kolono
ksar
kupola
left-footed
lenticular ansa
lex Barbara
luteinizing
macedonite
machilus chinensis (champ. ex benth.) hemsl.
MadCAM-1
mandibular scar
millimicromicroammeter
multi-batch processing
not afraid
NUC-1
observation study
open - and - shut case
percolators
periscope tracking
phototonicity
Pittosporum napaulense
planetary rotation engine
progesterone test
program chart
pseudocentipedes
pulsejets
Pyrex cooling jacket
quarrycord
Quinny
Ratnering
reduced suspension
rigid boundary condition
ring defect
roof vent
Shantarskiye Ostrova
skin hooks
smoke signals
steering machine
tectonic cycle
tectonic physics
the alp
thiochlorfenphim
tier building
time limit effects in bargaining games
tonsilla pharyngea
transmission performance rating
Tyne Valley
uhms
unovertrowable
Utah redbud
valuation of securities
video mapping group
visibility variable
weft face
winefields
woodsboro
worry wart