时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(四)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Toronto, Canada authorities say it appears the person who drove a van over busy streets and mowed 1 down pedestrians 2 was acting 3 deliberately 4. At least ten people were killed. A 25-year-old man is in custody 5.


The man accused of shooting dead four people in a Tennessee waffle house is being held on two million dollars bond. Travis Reinking faces four counts of criminal homicide. He was arrested on Monday.


CIA director Mike Pumpeo's nomination 6 to be Secretary of State now goes to the full Senate. He won the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's recommendation by a narrow vote.


And President Trump 7 hosts French President for a state dinner at the White House on Tuesday. It's the first official state visit of the Trump presidency 8.


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



1 mowed
v.刈,割( mow的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The enemy were mowed down with machine-gun fire. 敌人被机枪的火力扫倒。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Men mowed the wide lawns and seeded them. 人们割了大片草地的草,然后在上面播种。 来自辞典例句
2 pedestrians
n.步行者( pedestrian的名词复数 )
  • Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement. 几个行人在结冰的人行道上滑倒了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Pedestrians keep to the sidewalk [footpath]! 行人走便道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
4 deliberately
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
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 nomination
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
7 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。
8 presidency
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
学英语单词
access layer
Act-O-Vial
acute articular rheumatism
Alejandro
Amer.Std
aminoexotripeptidase
Anatolian language
anhydrodrivatives
artistic ability
automatic blowdown valve
back-bye work
barium undecylenate
be in religion
beamshelf
bergshrund
black matrix
by comparison
camelthorns
chromatite
Clifton Forge
combinative scattering
compound filling
construction schedule
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly County
Corydalis pseudojuncea
decontaminating column
die casting technique
dispercle
distributed data manipulation facility
dowly
emergency door height
epbs
exorcisms
family reduviidaes
flared
flat saddle key
fuelinjection
get good grades
good wood
helical plow
hlinka
Immerpan
interplaner spacing
interplanetary mission
lady-like
lean gas-solid mixture
leishmanicidal
lie scale
Limnoriidae
Llovera
local rotary connector
loop jack switchboard
low-speed printer
marginal prime cost
moment of density function
multiplexer/selector
network device
owners
packless valve
pedal pin
pentafluoropyridines
petechiae
phenolic fire-retardant paint
prepregnant
president-ceo
primula auriculas
pseudoexfoliations
regulating autotransformer
ritualism
Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome
run fine
Saha's equation
Salmoneaal marseilles
self-deportations
sheet extruder
shellfish processing machine
shor
single-wave operation
snowbirds
solid phase zone melting
sporting gun
Steatornis caripensis
submucous infiltration anesthesia
superoscillatory
supervisory lamp
tateishi
tensile characteristics
test data generator
tetrahydro-beta-naphthyl-amine
traunslate
two spool compressor
unbiased importance sampling
unit fraud
Valencay
vapour compression cycle
verbal cues
voice communication card
volupteous
wallby
word stem
Yushania xizangensis