时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(六)月


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This is AP News Minute.


A 28-year-old candidate who has never held public office stunned 1 the democratic party by beating one of its house leaders. Alexandia Ocasio Cortez defeated Congressman 2 Joe Crowley of New York, once thought of as a possible future House speaker.


South Carolina Republican Governor Henry McMaster won his primary runoff after getting an endorsement 3 from President Trump 4. And former presidential candidate Mitt 5 Romney won the republican primary for Utah's Senate seat.


A federal judge has ordered immigration authorities to reunite separated families within thirty days. The ruling follows a lawsuit 6 from the American Civil Liberties Union.


And a Japanese space probe has arrived at an asteroid 7 about 170 million miles from Earth. The plan is for the probe to blast a hole in the asteroid, collect samples and bring them back to Earth.


Matt Small, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 stunned
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
2 endorsement
n.背书;赞成,认可,担保;签(注),批注
  • We are happy to give the product our full endorsement.我们很高兴给予该产品完全的认可。
  • His presidential campaign won endorsement from several celebrities.他参加总统竞选得到一些社会名流的支持。
3 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。
4 mitt
n.棒球手套,拳击手套,无指手套;vt.铐住,握手
  • I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日,我送给他一只棒球手套。
  • Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
5 lawsuit
n.诉讼,控诉
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
6 asteroid
n.小行星;海盘车(动物)
  • Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。
  • It's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into Earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小,但这样的危险还是存在的。
学英语单词
aerospace ground-support equipment (age)
airdale
alabaster gass
apomorphine hydrochloride
aquinone
arc-hyperbolic cosecant
asplen
attended operation
augment nozzle
automatic ignition
back-garden
belife
Belo Horizonte
besmirch
boiler-firing equipment
brass-studded
by reason that
cat-liker
cellotape
charged-particle drift
chemotic
choke coil assembly
ciliary ganglionic plexus
cinefluorograph
clay adsorption
comodule homomorphism
Compared with last year
conversatives
corded track
cover for
critomancy
cutting pipe without surplus
depathologized
depauperizes
dermatitis escharotica
docqueted
drive sb insane
Easter Sunday
enterohepatic circuIation
etymologists
external world
faulty machining
flame cleaning
forward transfer signal
handspan
hmg-box
hostagetaking
hydroaerodromes
Ill news flies apace
ill-scented
innersts
items remitted for collection
Kelantanese
kosciusko, mount
lcis
linguals
magnetoplasmaron
mazy
mispeche
nadjitas
nepalganj (nepalgunj)
New Inn Green
organ donors
oxocarbonium ion
p-amino-benzoic-sulfonamide
papists
Phanerorhynchidae
pillaite
poje
poops out
portered
poss
pottery stone
PPPI
program determination
quarrons
re-orderings
reactor noise analysis
recanning
recipient pretreatment
recovery-rollback functionality
response, frequency
Rφdbyhavn
saint vincent, gulf
selection
sidehill
speculative trading
spiniscala cf. fucata
storing cistern
stuck-open fault
Taldykum
tarnations
temporary employee
test lug
tihs
timberyards
Trifolium arvense
unreadableness
upward-flows
veneer wood
vertical sweep frequency
wolongs