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
a man of science
acceptable daily intake for man
Anabaenae
anastigmats
at a canter
atmospheric side
back discharge
Balho
bancs
battledore boy
bean green
beddy-bye
bending frequency
biliaries
Bourarhet, Erg
broad-beam shielding
butyl-o-crecyl ether
Cabo Rojo
cause effect graph
celloidin paper
confluence of sinuses
crane runner
current-account balance
cytoarchitectures
Danthonia schneideri
demonstration forest
discrete valued random variable
docky
double rack type pusher
double-disk clutch
emblematical
enter to line
ethmoidosphenoid suture
evaporative coolers
excalceation
flux jump
focused grid
garniture of boiler
grapho-analysis
h bar
haplophyma
hemopexins
hibernators
high-purity hydrogen generator
huelp
ice warning
in-band
ion membrane
iopentol
jerk ass
kangaroolike
lateral mark
local actions
martinazzi
mean information content
medaeops granulosus
mesoplodon densirostris
Monteux
natural language system
nuclear data tape program
onsight
open forest
open-faceds
organization unit loading
over-smart
pacula
phenomen
pole-changing control
posterior oesophage ganglion
power liquid
premiable
priority threshold
producer gas
Pujǒn-gun
radiation physics
resecreting
romrod
rotational barrier
sacred dance guild (sdg)
Sadyan
sciophilic algae
Scurrula ritozanensis
shark
Sokhum
spherical configuration
spinodale magnet
Suitcase Seamounts
summer-times
Suprapulmonic
tactical air operations center
TAQUETE
Tofutti
Trypanosoma avium
tunnel diode negative resistance oscillator
tyerman
veena
visual electro-physiology
water cusion
X-mitter (transmitter)
Yser
zero strength temperature
zero-load