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
acoustoneter
answer a description
ash composition
axial-flow fan
bag elevator
be armed with
boil-eddy
brigantiner
bursae musculi teretis majoris subtendinea
cascarilla oil
Cement City
characteristic curve of centrifugal pump
chilled-casting
clada vittula
co morbid
coleosporium campanumeae
Colocare
conceptual distinction
contemplational
contempt proceedings
cost data
cvt.
danse d'action
denationalizes
Dombe Grande
elastic catheter
emergency alert systems
equisatisfiability
excess demand tariff
filtration enrichment
flying meets
foliolae
hattocks
Hertz, Gustav
hools
hot-setting
induced(faradic)current
inodorus
integrity checker
jack socket
key management
Kinyang
knuckle and socket joint
krauroses
Mauern
mediaometer
medical apparatus
meet with a check
mid-fields
milphosis
minimum alveolar concentration
Mont Fleuri
mosfet simulations
multimorphemic
Myorexon
negative power coefficient
non-attended
oxyard
oxypropylenediisoamylamine
paddy husking
pigeonnier
pizzly
polar lake
portable tank arrangement
Pravaeillin
primary salt
psychical blindness
QuickTime VR
registered trade mark
remote alarm indication
rerrs
residual kame
resonance amplitude
schedule rating
scissors pass
scrimshank
short-distance traffic
skeleton map
solar collector
stage-phoner
steam sterilizer
stockley
strengthening of soil
symmetry of movement
target folder
the glimpse of the moon
thermal recovery
thromboemboli
total return swaps
trial assembly
turn me on
undersell
ungarnish
verbatim memory
vireo
void cement ratio
water cooled segment
well-defined peak
world wide income
Young cocks love no coops.
zero-lift drag
zooxantellate