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
a-gvhd
additional premium
airslide conveyer
Al Kalbā
Allium fistulosum L.
amphimorphic rock
anterior pole of lens
apical pore
aspes
astrionics (astronics)
bird-scarers
black copper ore
cargo discharge pump
carunculas
checking by shade
cibus
cinnamoned
claim for reimbursement
closest rational approximation
collateral fiber
continuous-wave radar
crackpipe
curling diameter
data list element
debloating
dental precentive treatment
double chamber reservoir
double underline
emmetropization
emplastration
equivalent air path
father figures
fingerprint card
forthby
French Equatorial Africa
freshling
gagge
gaiaism
gamboller
great circle chart
Gwydion
Huntlosen
immersion cooling
ion microprobe mass analysis
isoindoles
Jannes
Kingian
Knossos
liquefied natural gas (lng)
local flow condition
maggiolate (italy)
mahalstick
many to one relationship
map standard
Mecosta County
medial femoral intermuscular septum
medimarimeter
memorandam
miniphyric
MO Diskette
moderatisms
motor closing mechanism
mutual exclusivity
mutual graft versus host disease
nested table
non-judgmentally
on a sticky wicket
pier with approach trestle,pier with approach bridge
primary graticule
prolymphoblasts
pyrogenic process
red boottopping R.M.paint
refueling vehicle
reinforcement bending shed
repl
search for experience
self evaluative reaction
self-control
shake somebody up
shariff
signal field
silicon gate technology
single-wound resistor
Slope County
Solo2
state space kinetics
studentish
subrin
systemist
Tatarlar
tensa
teratogeneses
the ONS
throttle flap
tractor carried plow
transit tolls
unwarted
uvula forceps
Web cam
Wegenstedt
white jasmine
wu fu kuan