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
Abreus
accelerated oxidation test
aft antenna
agricultural loan
all light
animus lucrandi
antimony(iii) chloride
atrichia
audio frequency apparatus
bathymetries
be shit
bearing-shim
beet cleaner loader
bejeweling
bi-directional reflection factor
bisy
booking center
Bouvet Fracture Zone
buying binge
by plane
close the deal
code storage
compilated
consular function
coric
courtism
crew schedule
cubefree
current monitor
cutting ring of shield
dazza
decrement decrement field
diaphragm material
digger bottom
djd
Dompierre-sur-Yon
eggstone (oolite)
endotoxoid
exercise performance
farm household economy
fast neutron removal kernel
Federal Reserve
fellers
Field, Marshall
focus shift
gentlings
genus Parkinsonia
half-brightness effect
hard-favouredness
hierarchical data model
honebein
indirect consumption
jamee
jerrygibbsite
Jourdain's disease
Keta L.
kill the sea
kneck
laminated rubber spring
lateral cerari
lecanii
majrooh
mechanical spring and flyweight governor
melktert
metacone
moy-yah
myopsychopathy
nth moment
open spherical curve
paenibacillus taiwanensis
phosphorite
phosphotriose
portice
power flight trajectory
powese
price-settings
pulse-repetition
punazi
quinie
radling
range scanning
read-write key
realtering
s-plane of stratification
scrofulas
scutarcopagia linguafelis
self loading forage box
ship Doppler
silica index
Snezhnogorskiy
spaces to tabs (leading)
spectatresses
strirrer arm
Sugito
Theosophical Society
tracer-labelling
tuberculostatic drug
tychisms
ultrasonic wavemeter
valvulae
vojislav
winyl acetic ester