时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(三)月


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This is AP News Minute.


The Austin, Texas police chief says he considers a 25-minute cell-phone recording 1 from bombing suspect Mark Anthony Conditt to be a confession 2. Authorities removed homemade explosives from his residence.


Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for what he called a major breach 3 of trust. He outlined in a CNN interview steps that Facebook is taking to protect users after a firm's use of information improperly 4 obtained from fifty million Facebook users.


Congress could begin voting on Thursday on a new sweeping 5 1.3 trillion dollar budget. It substantially boosts military and domestic spending, but includes no deal on immigrant "dreamers".


The big northeast snowstorm dropped snow on New England on Wednesday night and early Thursday. The storm left more than a foot of snow in the areas of Pennsylvania, but less in the big east coast cities.


I'm Jackie Queen, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 recording
n.录音,记录
  • How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
2 confession
n.自白,供认,承认
  • Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
  • The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。
3 breach
n.违反,不履行;破裂;vt.冲破,攻破
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
4 improperly
不正确地,不适当地
  • Of course it was acting improperly. 这样做就是不对嘛!
  • He is trying to improperly influence a witness. 他在试图误导证人。
5 sweeping
adj.范围广大的,一扫无遗的
  • The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
  • Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗?
学英语单词
0454
Abū Ra'sayn, Jab.(Abourasséin, Mont)
achiever
adrenalin poisoning
Akkol', Ozero
antibioties
archaeological
asymmetrical regulation
azimuth bar
B12TAM
bivaginaosis
boschnialoside
boulevardlike
canvas
Carmadie
catapult launching
catheter
cellularly
Chamaecyparis thyoides
chapada
chaptrel
Christ Jesus
class of service tone
composited
culhane
depreciation-percentage of original cost method
dioxy-diaminosuberic acid
distortionless modulation
do oneself an injury
electronic navigational equipment
enamel(l)ed hardboard
encise
Endophyllum
Eubalaena
fantastic insanity
faragasso
fee-based
file processing system
flexicair
flower diagram
Forrest L.
frightness
fulminating meningococcal meningoencephalitis
glass fibre reinforced plastic boat
go no go gage
graveur
hedging with
heterodiegetic
His Majesty's
Hordeum innermongolicum
howling damping
hydroxy acids
hypoinosemia
inadequate damages
instrument repair shop
intensive cultivation
introductive
isadelphia
like a weathercock in the wind
liquid cold-tar creosote
master switch control
maytansinol
minimum speed for acceptable flying qualities (msafq)
minnicks
mooter
negative balance
neoformalism
non-deterministic control system
null sequence
original insurer
partes palpebralis
partial inferior turbinectomy
phase of carrier
programmed data quantizer
reland
reverse head
self-filtration
semisolid grease
Si Kiang
soil wedge
solar breeze
spherometer
spraying therapy
ST_beliefs-and-opinions_not-believable
stay in
subperichondrial
synopses
systemoid
theory of peasant economy
thymopharyngeal duct
total contract value
tower dwelling
track block
turbulent burning velocity
under-reported
valence force
viewdata system
wafer test
Weisz modulus
wine merchants
work sampling
yellow Ointment