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
1000base-t
abutment of dam
Amerindianness
aposymbiosis
arabicas
automatic positioning system
aziridinium salt
bacteraemias
Berdaale
blue chip
boulder clays
budin
canada balsams
Chajnantor
chasey
chemical combustion
chloroboration
Christfag
consecutive amputation
contr.
corpuscular protein
Corraun
counsellorships
counted quantity
Depakine
digital health
Dzheltulak
earth-return double phantom circuit
erection clip
eunuchising
fenbutrazate
fermosura
finance ministers
fliar
flux distribution
forest fire fighter
fuel-air explosive
gold futures
halfpennyworth
heat service
heat-stroke
hypocapnias
ifhe
impulse reaction turbine
Kelang, Pulau
Kisiriri
kolde
leakage
leisure centres
Lepturus
magnetic and electrostatic simulator
MBMD
mechanical overtravel
metroscope
milimetre
millikatal
misnamed
mogar
monetary
Nazidom
no cargo condition
note-shaver
ODRL
otoscopy
partial crystallization
party in interest
philographic
pink pound
plashful
porcelaneous layer
powered whistle
pressure matchplate process
pseudo-carburizing
public functionary
quarrel with sb about sth
Rabdosia alborubra
Rantau
replenishing relief valve
roll length
royal warrant
saeco
serologic reaction
short fall freight
shvartze
steam-consumption
stepwise variable optical attenuator
Stipa lessingiana
stock volume
strokingly
superior suprarenal arteries
test force amplitude
tetrabelodont
The Interclub New York Produce Exchange Agreement
two-sided exponential distribution
uk weather
up-up-up
values of viscosity
VCXO
weft hammer
west hill
yaller dog
zero knives linear