时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(五)月


英语课

This is AP News Minute.


President Donald Trump 1 is seething 2 over the Russia investigation 3, including the FBI's use of a secret informant to approach his campaign aides. Trump tweeted Wednesday, "Spygate could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!"


President Donald Trump says he will know next week whether his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is still on. Trump expressed doubts about prospects 4 for the talks on Tuesday. Speaking Wednesday, he said if the June 12 talks do happen, it'll be a "great thing for North Korea".


Primaries have turned out well for several women seeking office, including Atlanta lawyer Stacey Abrams, now the democratic nominee 5 for Georgia Governor. She'd be the first black female governor in US history if she wins.


And NFL owners have approved a new policy aimed at addressing the firestorm over national anthem 6 protests, permitting players to stay in the locker-room during the "star-spangled banner", but requiring them to stand if they come to the field. The NFL Player Association says it wasn't part of the talks and will challenge any part that violates the collective bargaining agreement.


This is Julian Stiles, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 seething
沸腾的,火热的
  • The stadium was a seething cauldron of emotion. 体育场内群情沸腾。
  • The meeting hall was seething at once. 会场上顿时沸腾起来了。
3 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。
4 prospects
n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
  • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
5 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
6 anthem
n.圣歌,赞美诗,颂歌
  • All those present were standing solemnly when the national anthem was played.奏国歌时全场肃立。
  • As he stood on the winner's rostrum,he sang the words of the national anthem.他站在冠军领奖台上,唱起了国歌。
学英语单词
air riveter
alpine type of relief
altitude transmitter
alveolar-efficiency
army antiaircraft artillery command
autoconvolutions
ballfield
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battles of thermopylae
blight wood
burnt plaster
business law and regulations
calendar-year
capillary gel electrophoresis
chemical shift
chilarium
civic liberty
conditioned connection
cyathophylloid
dike maintenance
directorian
disposal region
Dorning
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dragooning
dry fires
early history
Edison's medicine
elastic relaxation
european white lilies
failure orientation
farm-labourer
Folkestone
high-voltage diode
hoot
ideata
injust
integrated programme of household survey
interlayer correction
Krascheninnikovia
laptopless
library formatted disc file
Linaria yunnanensis
lock-step parallelism
magenta
maidenhairtree
malekith
man of many words
man-days of strike idleness
martos
multiple pressure technic
NAND flash memory
nhas
Oil-varnish
On your soapbox
organocupric ion complex
peat poudrette
poor solvent
poppyseed
position defilade
pratoes
presidential
prior-period adjustment
projective cover
prosciutto ham
pulse hand magnet
purification of gas
pursuit aeroplane
pustular
Quatipuru
quiet solar radio radiation
radioactive contamination of soil
range to target
read time
real-time basic executive
resident assembler
residual cylinder stock
Rubus wardii
sequential chi-squared test
soul-to-soul
sportfully
sproulls
subsurface hydrology
sustained pressure
swirl vanes
synchronization signal unit
system-generated electromagnetic pulse
table-hopper
talyman
tarsiid
total deadweight
Trang Bang
triethylenethiophoramide
triterpenoids
twigils
undergarment
uterotubogram
vane control
vehicle identification
wave hopping
word-findings
zablah