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 poor
a watering hole
abirritation
actual elements
announceable
ask around
ASWEX
Bertraghboy B.
blown tumbler
bobowski
byrrus
c/i (carrier-to-interference power)
cast behind
categorising
center of pressure (cp)
combined transport of container
CYRTIDAE
Dehradun
design contract
desylacetic acid
diaspirin
element of composite symmetry
enameloplasty
factor of model
family felidaes
fernleaf
fish stick
geophysiologist
granide
helminthosporium siccans drechsler
hydraulic belt
hydronic radiation
hydroxy-arabinohexose
i-back
intercrops
kallirotron
konnarite (connarite)
long hair which hangs in small curls
lorentzian noise spectrum
lubber ring
marrubiin-3-ketone
milleped, millepede
milpa
monoxerutin
most stringent level alpha test
multiple factorial experiment
Narcea, R.
narcomedusa
Ngergoi
nonindulgences
Nénébougou
OCO (open-close-open contact)
omni-directional radio beacon
peddle their papers
pitch width of pulley groove
Piyyutim
powder enamel
primer mover
program restructuring technique
reaction of replacement
rubber hydrochloride
sale revenue
sea mew
seismic geophone
selectcares
self-therapy
semi-sample
ship lift with counterweight
simultaneous track processor
solar dry(ing)
special terracing grader
special weapons equipment list
Spritsail-Yard
squeeze biscuit
state-specified standard
stock payment
strip-film camera
syncope due to immoderate drinking
tanker time
tau-b
technical specialist
temporary facilities for construction
termitaria
text-based browser
the younger
therapp
Tinidazole-Livzon
Trichodina
trispyrazolylborate
tropins
turdinaes
two-way push-down automaton
umlaute
unenrichable
USPSRS
variable area
Vyatka
wind-borne material
work-bench measurement
YB, Y.B.
your honour