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.


The Pentagon is backing President Donald Trump 1's assertion that the missile strikes in Syria were "mission accomplished 2." At a briefing Saturday, Pentagon officials said the US-led airstrikes successfully hit every target and they were not aware of any civilian 3 casualties.


Russia condemned 4 the Syrian airstrikes at an emergency UN security meeting it requested. The US ambassador to UN, Nikki Haley, said that the US is "locked and loaded" if the Syrian regime uses poisonous gas again.


Vice 5 President Mike Pence told U.S. Allies in Latin America the US-led airstrikes on Syria "degraded and crippled" the country's chemical weapons capability 6. Pence is fling in for President Trump at the Summit of the Americas.


Tens of Thousands of people sang, cheered and cried at the funeral for anti-apartheid activist 7 Winnie Mandela. The woman often refereed 8 to as the "Mother of the Nation" is being buried as a national hero in South Africa.


This is Julian Stiles, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 accomplished
adj.有才艺的;有造诣的;达到了的
  • Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
  • Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。
3 civilian
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
  • There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
  • He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
4 condemned
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
5 capability
n.能力;才能;(pl)可发展的能力或特性等
  • She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
  • Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。
6 activist
n.活动分子,积极分子
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
7 refereed
vi.担任裁判(referee的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • Your focus should be on getting papers published in refereed journals. 首要的就是发表文章,而且是在匿名审稿的杂志上。 来自互联网
  • It was a national judge who refereed the game. 执法这场比赛的是国家裁判。 来自互联网
学英语单词
A Dance to the Music of Time
actuating error signal
aetomylaeus milvus
agglomerate table
alphabetic shift
Aneurophyton
annexal
annular granuloma
anthraquinone acridine
arithmetic oriented programming
ash-ejector
at once...and...
azbel kaner resonance
backup men
Bank of Tokyo Ltd.
Bayankhanite
billbugs
both-way trunk line
brush holder rocker
bulk information storage
Camellia albescens
cast fruit
Chong Vessel
come high
copper cash
crowning machine
cryotrapping
decidua menstrualis
Decollatura
diamagnetic resonance (dmr)
dual linear program
eccentric sensation
electric-arc air gouging
energy production of a power plant
equipollent coextensive concept
Fa Ngum
fashed
follow - up meeting
font editor
gas-turbine plant
glance angle
Grosse I.
home-state
host system mailbox switch setting
housecleaned
huang m?n ku ch'ui shu
Imeosonal
initial mark up
juncunone
Kapshticë
light perception
magnocellular part
maximum available output of power system
middle agess
modesties
multinational accounting
multiple foul
ninepenny
non-escaping key
nuclear-track emulsion
optical memory
paving
penetratingly
performance ratings
personal construct
plantalgia
polychrome figurecurve vase
polysacchar(id)ase
polyvalent retreatment plant
preset instruction
Pseudoracelopus
rasorial leg
re-calls
recurrent fauna
rheotannic acid
Riverdance
run into trouble
saz (turkey)
scanning signal input
scheduling application programming interface
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Ernst Daniel
self support
sequential access display
short essay
single-
soekadana (sukadana)
solar mass
stintedness
students under poverty line
suckered
sulphotsumoite
São Mamede
tans- plantation antigen
tipping attachment
triungulinoid
trynna
ungag
unility computer
Wallhausen
warbots
Wright telescope
zig-a-zig-ah