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
abbet
Abros
agitator feed
allene linkage
alloeorhynchus vinulus
at auction
boardgame
body-centered cubic lattice
break shock
bristled
caas
cancer-fightings
carbon fiber reinforcement
change the record
chiffchaff
Chintamani
clairvoyances
cross out
d band
d'antoni
d.c.welder
Daphne cneorum
demy-
destructive malfunction
diesel oil purifier
driving swarm
Enemutu
enophthalmin
Erops
ferro-johannsenite
flachbarth
follower gasket
gamar
gastineau channel
general noncost system
give a lesser punishment
glass-doors
goat-liker
greceteria
hydroxybenzene finder phenol detector
hypersomatotropinism
inverted drill string
khristich
king's theatre
kiona
Kwiksave
lambis lambis
laminectomy and decompression
lollipop women
lymph cavity
mastoidal
mediante
melan
milk-born infection
multicell battery
nafi
news-vendor
nontunable
Oddbins
offensive lock-out
open grainage
operative gas
oscillograph recording system
over-estimate
partial recursive predicate
phoneticists
photo-sensitive recorder
pigss in blankets
pipe vines
predetection bandwidth
Prowers County
public gathering
pushing track of hump
Qalandīyah
radio nuclide
RATAN
reductive ozonolysis
reefer containers
regiones colli posterior
respiratory action
retroactive policy
roane
rotary magneto
spargarum disease
spraying vehicle
staffone
stemmers
straight thawing
Studal
sudden fiction
super-conducting magnet
symmetric membrane
table-tennis bat
take the pick of
the avengers
this noon
Todenbüttel
Turk's-cap
under-measure
unhitching
vendor part modification
water level bulletin