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
a shed
aldoketene
all other perils
amegilla florea
analysis of world growth
artificial radionuclide
booh
calibrable
caudal spinal nerves(or coccygeal nerves)
chronic fibrocavernous pulmonary tuberculosis
clinical physiology
coal pusher
cocamide
conditional mean estimate
conducting hearth furnace
constant altitude plan position indicator
controlling office
cylindrical polisher
cytocletic
desperations
diethyl 4, 4'-O phenylene-bis
disseminated chorioretinitis
drinking problem
dzud
East Indiaman Ridge
Engaruka
episcia cupreata
fedorow stage
fellowship in crime
fiber shortest path first
fibrae circulares musculi ciliares
fifo buffer
flavo(u)red yoghurt
forclosed
Furazina
Gambia kino
Goolgowi
grade-separated
griseococcin
gutteridge
heavy nucleus
henker
herpes mucosae
high melting-point
holveck
huygenseyepiece
Ibibios
inflation caused by budgetary deficit
intermediary antigen
ISO Recommendation
IUIS
Klein Roggeveldberge
latent valency
levelling dryer
lithium schist
mast ring
MEMS mirror
meteor hammer
mezzo-brow
microphone
midboard
moosehearts
Naraka
naval gun mounting servo system
Nepaleses
nordiska
nose curve
not one jot or tittle
obstruction to vision
oil payment
open kettle
padleys
paridris toketoki
partial reaction
pay toilet
performance monitor
phytoseiulus
pilea peploides major
Polygonum pinetorum
quinkle
reflex pickup
repowering
resorbent
retirement pension plan
rubber sheathed trailing cable
ruffianous
scholasticized
smokins
Spiranthes hongkongensis
squeaking
SS (solid state)
strainer bonnet
synergistic curve
Timken bearing
tolerizeable
tomers
tower cresses
Tylophora leptantha
Uch Jacobābād
vesiculovirus spring viremia of carp virus
viennese school
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