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
account balance aging
adrenergic synapses
AK-Rinse
anatomo-
arsenius
as watchful as a hawk
avire
Ban Tak Daet
barbecuer
be out of whack
bloodguility
bloodmobiles
bullet-headed
bullous skin disease
captive shop
Carmelitess
centering tripod
chartula amylacea
chemically correct mixture ratio
chimes
clayly
conveyor system for indoor potato store
cream soup with shreded vegetable
cut off meander core
derived term indexing
dierucin
diverting stream line
dog-ends
drop weight rammer
eco-building
engore
four-way reinforcing
fractionating process
frequency-modulated wave
give cards and spades
hawkweeds
HCPCS
heavy recoil oil
hemless
Henicocephalidae
heyyyy
high-incomes
hpa-an (pa-an)
ice dancing (england)
in-clos
inclusive segments
ISH,I.S.H.
jimmyrigged
Johannes van der Waals
k-holes
kill spirits
level(l)ing block
load decrease
love tree
lutzs
lymphorotease
manistee
miter gage
nicher
night observation
nondistorter
NuCa-Green
nyf
of-one
on this occasion
osteohistological
pantocidum
pantryman
phases in
photon liberation
pictoure
posode
productive capacity of pellet feed processing machine
radiological scanning
repegging
Rubus caesius
sample evaporation chamber
scalding process
sederine
semisymmetric quasigroup
shellfires
Shirebrook
singing signal
small retail enterprise
sum of square
Syd.
synchronization communication
tackled
technical innovator
tengtsungensis
triatomic acid
under-tens
up a creek
utilization of budget
volume lifetime
waterflow
waterproof optical fiber cable
weaving weld
whip hand
White,Gilbert
write tape decimal
Yergason