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
abo systems
Agdz
ailurophobia
algebraic K-theory
all inclusive
amniotic invagination
Andijon Viloyat
anencephalic monster
anodontia
bad/poor sailor
barge unloading suction dredge
barrier strip
besulpamide
bigorexics
calorimetric mass flowmeter
caries texture
coligranuloma
complementary distributions
Croatoan
denseness of rational number
direct ink writer
displaced ore body
DPPD
dry dock dues
energetic encounter
epicentrum(epicenter)
fetus papyraceous
Flood's equation
foamed-polyethylene insulation
follow-on developmental test
generalized likelihood ratio
geno-typing
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Glyciphagus domesticus
goldschmidt's law
gossippings
hammer block
harvested beet
hiemal plant
Hollinwood
ignific
impinge
indanylcarbenicillin
indentor point
informal communication
intake rollers
intergranular effect
intermammary groove
international astronautical federation (iaf)
intranuclear
last invoice method
latter grass
law-board
lend color to
lighten hole
locomotive classification
lower-income
Lucy, Mt.
megabuildings
mistura sennae composita
mixed method
mulatas
nitroic acids
octoradiated
one-pass 3D migration
orange horseshoe bat
paucin
pegaspargase
period of priority
photo morphogenisis
pitch a circus
pop-on
product water
propeller brake
proteinurias
psychodramatic
purine
quirkyalones
ram tester
russula mariae
sacred consumption
salicyloacetylsalicylic acid
sawn pasture
semilunare
spicular geyserite
stock transfer agent
strippable coating
subcritical airflow
synoptic analysis
technical speed
Thaumatoxenidae
Thinnfeldia
throw a pinch of salt on a bird's tail
tough minded
train running time on load
travel performance test
triaminoguanidine
tungsten wire
Twihards
uranium tetraboride
warning tap
zaladonis