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 straight
Aconchulinida
advisory for gale
Andromeda L.
Aquino
arrive upon the scene
Ash Brook
banjuleles
basic catalysis
be meant to
Before and at the Beginning of the Towage
bialik
boiling period
Brosmophycinae
bus-bar wire
Cheat R.
cherry piker
churrera
cloacal exstrophy
communital
crow hop
cyclic annealing
dangerous pressure
distillery drier house
division of estates
dorsal digital nerve of foot
double stain
dwarfings
economic advantages
El Mono
electropneumatic plant
equivalent articulation loss
family belostomatidaes
family nostocaceaes
fitting rooms
gasoline drought
grandrelle yarns
graphical-extrapolation method
gravity equation
harmonious order of events
hige additive oil
high-voltage testing device
hollon
i-blowen
institute of patent attorneys
insulet
interplanetary flight
irrevocable documentary letter of credit
Ixonanthaceae
keshav
kidowaki
Kuge
ledger-star
machimus asiaticus
macrocontrol
Make Food Offerings
makes an attempt at
Meliosma rigida
meta alunogen
Microtis
mobile liquid manure agitator
mtDNA
n-amyl chlorocarbonate
occupational laryngitis
opossum woods
packed absorption
passive simulation
photodiode array detector
positive confirmation
postmortem routine
priestress
quinoxalinediones
remoulded soil
rengoes
ring spun and twisted bobbin
rope-makers
Rāra National Park
satellite interception
schurling
screcy
shopping tour
short-range bombardment aviation
shrinking of the earth
slide warmer
slinging process
spot checker
step cover
stock index futures
stress-free corrosion
superpolish
surface target
thrash metaller
three-arm mooring
Tinker to Evers to Chance
Torafilon
transpose of a relation
trisponder
truckdrivers
trying out
voice response system
Xiangluang
years' purchase