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
acid hydrolyzed wood
activity theory
Adenia penangiana
Anderson-Brinkman-Morel state
antidotes
atrial tachycardia
Bali
baric wind law
bass-line
be caught in a shower
be get on one's high horse
blue racer
Burgundy mixture
categorical measure
chitinolytic
Chucandiro
colo(u)r difference formula
continuous current-carrying capacity
continuous-echo
coordinatings
count out
counterflowing
Crack a nut with a sledgehammer
Date Certain
dermatophytes
direct canon
disassociation
dispirodecane
distribution directory
donee beneficiary
Dungeness crabs
economic statics
edx
electric field scanning
eucalyptolene
extra light loading
flickereth
four way jack
fuck heads
gallinulas
gaytan
geometry optimization
go number one
grabfests
Groitzsch
heat exchange system
Herentals
HLDH
insectivorous plants
integrated stack
international multimodal transport operation
Joseph Smith
kanelstein (grossularite)
ladle well
Macromitrium
make ... bread
micro-grams
moderantism
monaker
multicavity mold
multiple-word processing
neutrocytosis
nomenclatural
norlutins
osmium tetrachloride
osmoadaptation
Palaeomicroanimal
panteen
pickings claims
polysyndactyly
prenote
pryazodine
rubidium permanganate
seal cavity
secretion curette
self-illuminating sight
semitriangular basis
short fiber reinforced metal matrix composite
Somalist
Sommairite
storage management strategy
strategic aeromedical evacuation
stratigraphic history
sulfapyrazole
synchronous digital hierarchy (sdh)
taylor-proudman theorem
tecadenoson
thebaine hydrochloride
three-electrode method
Tixantone
Toona ciliata
undulation period
up-to-date map
Val Gal
vapour phase inhibitor paper
vessel's form
videnieks
voltage unbalance
WFTU
wolfschmidts
xylaria scruposa
zero defectcasting