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
accidental tissue
aeroaspiration
alcoholotherapy
analog line
aqueous rocks
art histories
assault artillery
bambusaspis bambusae
beacon fire
bewound
bill drawn payable at a certain time after date
biosparite
blast proessure
BOC Isomax
brake shoe pressure
breweriana
brohm
bsws
caracas baai
CCIT
celadon porcelain
Chorrillos, Dep.de
comedocarcinomata
consortable
Coonoor
crime of conspiracy
crossman
cyclopeptides
depreciation-annuity method
devil's pitchfork
documentum
dog-fightings
donkeypunching
effcetive output
electric spark CNC wire-cut machine
electricty
electronic countermeasures cont-rol
enamel paraffin wire
enclosed press
expense in carrying on business
explicit reciprocity law
flower of iron
forest economy
gain stability
Galileans
geothermal steam turbine
gesturals
heel pot roast
high baritone
hyperoxemia
industrial noise control
invination
iron-porphyrins
K-index
kadian
kermesses
logical unit name
Lomisat
longeaton
mamaki
marrubium
mass approach
memory manager
mold process
moropus
national tools monument
octadecenoate
pachycephaly
peristaltic rushes
petroleum processing of
pot-vallantly
power industrial economics
prestimulus
productive structure diagram
profit ability
quasi-polar sun-synchronous orbit
rabbit-fur streaks
radices scaussureae lappae
rain area
randomized multiple choice test
reaction stepping motor
revision of bylaws
ridged band
sclerotom
SPLV
standard lightning impulse sparkover voltage of arrester
strictinin
submarine osillator
superconducting transmission
telerate
The Norman
trilithic
universal-joint cap
unsound deformation
upper grades
urnings
UUM
vacuum disiccator
valproate semisodium
vehicle sound sensitive detector
wake loss
war complement