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
acephatemet
airmass fog
algazel
Amerindian architecture
antidote
areal specialization
asa-foetida
bed killing
bulk concentration
burn the candle at both ends
by passed
camellia uraku kitam.
Cephalotaceae
Christmas cracker
chromatic stimulus
chromium(iii) sulfate
clad fuel elements
common starlings
concept of equilibrium
conveyer car
coupola
crenelated
cryoaerotherapy
cybertexts
deboning
dentate gyri
design basis external man-induced events
Dicranodontium
electrically operated bell
electrode couple
EMIT (engineering management information technique)
enterprise computing
epacts
fluo
focus coil assembly
forelocking
FPAN
genus oryctolaguss
geologises
grid of bound
Hedera helix L.
high speed printing press
hobbyhorse
inconsiderations
indole series
interleaved character
IPMB
iron cage
Jowett, Benjamin
Kabongola
know-nothing
leonovna
livebloggers
lophosteron
low-backs
lyttle
main discharge
manufacturing overhead spending variance
margraff
mounting base
N-methylbenzyl-aniline
nebrius ferrugineus
neckfurters
non-skid treatment
noooo
oddity discrimination
oncomete
ornamenter
ornithine decarboxylase
pangkha
perovskite catalyst
picaridin
Polledo
Poofta
procarcinogen
promise to
pushes back
rete Halleri
rissoina turricula
robert treat paines
rodas
Rosa hezhangensis
salesmen's commission
salling
software linguistics
spirofibrillae
square kilometres
steelshod
sunkest
suxibuzone
tape stretcher
tautonyms
testis sac
tilt gauge
torque wrenches
type of cementation
Uite
wave front reconstructing record
X-ray fluorescence anaiysis
yan xishan
yuck it up
zow