时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(四)月


英语课

 


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
-pathia
a mere fable
aero-projector multiplex
Alert dialog
apical lymph nodes
at the ends of the earth
azadirachtin
Balmer series
bourdon ga(u)ge
brawley
brotherin-law
burlap finish
Chondropharyngeal
cladosporium nervisequium montagne
coal constitution
collecting mirror
come to bay
common salivary duct
completely written off
control of marketing operations
controllei ambiguity
Daulian
dieng
divisional manager
emission response time
equivalent noise fourpole
error estimate
feed to
fire access
fluidity index
foreign documents
foreign exchange rate
forest weather station
fuel loading facilities
fundamental identity
garnet type ferrite
genus Buckleya
genus Regnellidium
gloomiest
haemolytic disease
householder
incomprehensibleness
infopacks
inventory inquiry data processing
Key Stages
khalifas
less likely
Lubelskie
management of marine disaster reduction and relief
Mare Frigoris
mean likelihood estimator
minor isotopes safe-guards techniques
mitigate risks
nondeclarative
octagon scale
over year regulation
phenyl rhodanate
pink-sand
piston pin hole cap
pitch pine
plain flood
pledge one's troth
pre-equilibration
preverts
promoter damping
propeller shaft strut
pyo-compounds
reference record
resetting
rode-horse
Samoan conjunctivitis
septarian
silver polish
singularise
slosh frequency
sound and speech recognition
spent gases
squiggler
ST (steam turbine)
stabilized wire
standard sphere gap
stichocytes
strongylogaster abdominalis
T. M. E. P.
Tauste
Tedjert
tnfs
transportation cost
trash bag
tremely
tristour
trophesial
turtle geometry
twelve - step program
two-teachers
university for industry
uveitic
value of function
visual diaries
waste disposal in bedded (rock) salt
wheel lock
x-ray powder diffraction method