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
alcaldes
Alfred Tennyson
alla
antispace
automatic election
average rate of filtering
Bakonysarkany
banerji
barbed words
beachy hd.
catastrophic speciation
centers of excellence
charmley
clae
cooperation based on division of labor
core chaplet
corpus trapezoideum
crotalism
cyclorn
d. v. p.
dampness-heat in lower jiao
debt limit
deflection angle
dined on
disdainable
distutor
drift-nettings
engine cabin
ensemblists
enule
Eric Conspiracy
ethnoburbs
Eucupin
Euquinina
fault report
fire control sight system
Flower of Scotland
freight rate war
gastrostomize
glyceryl stearate
greats
have a chip on your shoulder
herbal anesthesia
hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets
heterophytic bacteria
high-voltage power supply
incipient crystallization
inhaler
insurers
intensionometer
inverted y-type column
Kalicephalus
katjiuongua
kick circuit
lotus leaf
meno mosso
misclaimed
myoelectric potential
non-negotiable securities
norrman
occupied beds
Organization Meteorological International
pamirs (pamir plat.)
penetration course
Photinia blinii
pittoris
plastic bond fireclay
platinized
plowed through
polysorbate65
private wiper
product population
pronominal verbs
quiver tree
real-time monitor software package
reenforcement
saturna
savo(u)rness
Serratula forrestii
shooting irons
Singapura
sintering condition
social security reform
steam temperature automatic regulating system
store keeper
synaptic membranes
tangrams
thickset cord
three-month-olds
thripss
tidal locking
uforbium
umbilical plane
us criminal law
vobis
washing-lines
widespread decline
windsor greens
Wollaston's reflecting goniometer
wordy
zero-shift
zinc diethyl dithiocarbamate