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 Hen
abomined
absolutely fabulous
Adonara, Pulau
Andrianovka
arecoline
atmospheric sounding and observing
back-drops
bazz
be in many minds
bear down on
bhd
binder roll
bubble memory module
CAMAEINIDAE
canary creeper
Carlemannia tetragona
caustical
Cebidichthys
cecidien
chillador
chilled-roll
chlorinised
civicmindedness
colour genlock
complete transposition of great blood vessels
coupling with non metallic elastic element
creosotal
damping collar
digitary
dimethyl-adipimidate
dolvin
Eccrinaceae
Eddystone Rocks
endothecal
Europe Remote Sensing Satellite
extend trade and commerce
external skeleton (or exoskeleton)
fiorinal
flexura lienalis
forced draft burner
forward difference operator
free axis
from the cradle to the grave
gear driven fixed mount
Goodyera yunnanensis
halogen acyl chloride
heart muscle fibers
heat transference
helminthosporoid
horizontal insertion of needle
Impatiens blepharosepala
inside bank slope
interior transportation design
interocitor
jar with
labbadia
macro pseudo instruction
make things worse
mean down time (mdt)
medial gastrocnemius muscle
mesoperidium
midwood
momentum wheel
moshavs
Narodnaya Volya
parallel data
pendy
piss off
plagianthus betulinuss
planetary electron
President Cleveland
production planning
purchase records
racin
Ranunculus ternatus thunb
Republic of Croatia
scn
sky island
soft-fired ware
sory
soulsearching
sparaxis tricolors
sponge test
star-disc harrow
storage output
storm-wind
stripping cross-section
super-stadium
sympodium
the former
there is no mistaking
thiophosphoryl triamide
timing accuracy
tracheophytes
trengganus
trichaster palmiferua
under the banner of
uswards
valence orbitals
vanhook
volkstaats