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 doll
air-hydraulic jack
ascend from
asslicky
Bacillus chlorinus
Brachybasidiales
brake plate anchor
Camporredondo, Embalse de
cenobitic monasticism
chemical cure
cholecystopyelostomy
Chrysiogenales
Ciudad Lerdo
clofentezine
clotting of blood
co-directional
common stock nomenclature
core out
cross-continental
cushion clamp
deep slot squirrel cage induction motor
dive brake
Eastern Highlands
Elderon
eudiaron
extortionate, extortionary
farsoun
fidelite
filicales leptosporangiatae
folium nelumbinis
four-stroke cycle engine
frcsc
free transmission
frontal precipitation
gate driver board
Herzlyya
idling distance
impulse noise processing
in the wall
incipient incircle
incompetent internal orifice of cervix
industrial autoclave
intentional interfernece with property
intrasphenoidal
isopropyl p-hydroxy-benzoate
jaam
jeranyi
Judeophiles
laytie
Liparis stricklandiana
low filter
Mariona, R.
MEDITORE
microincision
Nitrate-N
noncomputer
OLCA (on-line circuit analysis)
on-line software
P. r. n.
parthenogenetic reproduction
perspicuously
pilot machining cell
porous-type strongbase resin
potash albite
Processus pyramidalis
pseudo-random pattern generator
pulse voltage
pyrosmalites
Quinodis
radio-noise field intensity
residual inductance of resistance box
Sabbatia angularis
saint louis cotton
scientest
separate unit
sideritic shale
sir henry percies
slow-moving depression
smartmotor
stock price average
structure ground
sugar-daddy
surface accumulation layer
sweating
syrophoenician
task status index
thomas aquinass
thraustochytrium roseum
thystel
total heave
tribenzylarsine oxide
TRU waste
type of higher nervous activity
umpirings
ustilago scitaminea sydow(rabenborst)
vacuum spray evaporator
Visual aural radio range.
Wahaha
weld bead height
wood jointer
Work Product Privilege
Xinzhuang City