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.N.U.
ABPMR
adhesion layer
agreed price range
aldolic
arthritis in Whipple's disease
backing burr
beachbag
beetroot mug
beg no odds of
benzamides
bulleids
check-book money
Chinese gabled roof
clytus fukienensis
comparative law
comproch
conveyer screw shaft
currende (germany)
dando
data mirroring
decultivate
die-lock link
diode safety barrier
do-do-do
double screened coal
ecaccs
egg pulp
executable section
far from the mark
fingerprintability
finit-
flat-flamed burner
gem cutting
George III
ginger method
grooved joint
guuss
Haribo
hypogene ore
ideal arch
interactiveness
isenergic
jacket band
javalinas
keratoconiosis
kliebard
krejcie
law of regression
limiting p cv value
linear curve
linear ramp type
lochnager
martonne
mashenka
mommybloggers
narrow-width tractor
Nea Apollonia
nonnegative real number
old countries
open weave
Oskaig
peep slot
pencil-type probe
pleu-
positive train identification
prefrontal lobes
print value routine
pseudonymities
pumping magnetic
Pyrrophyta
refractidine
refractory gun mix
retina-scans
runway surface icing detector
Salayar
sangiovese
santo domingo (ciudad trujillo)
schematic drawing
seifriz
set-up register
shifting to a higher field
sponge titanium
spring pit
straight nitrogenous fertilizer
suaeda heteroptera kitagawa
suspended support
tandem boost
turf reconditioning
twizers
two-quadrant convertor
underabundance
upper light
vernish
vision-tester
volume power
weighted model
worldbuilder
written pledge
x-ray photoelectron spectrometer
xmodems
yeomenry