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
altitude of lower transit
anthracene tetrone
anticollision light
archipenko
argon column
asbestos cable
autoamputates
bar rail
Batudaka, Pulau
bend of elbow
bendabilities
bony ethmoidal cell
braking time
breed livestock
capsula adiposa renis
card-sharps
celidography
centrifugal fibre
Clarión, I.
coal getting
Constant, Jean Joseph Benjamin
cotugnia meggitti
Dasada
design wave height
disbandments
discredits
dissected plateau
do-gooders
dobermans
dual currency convertible
east of the Griffin
efficiency for solar energy utilization
end equipment
enter message
Espoo
exographX
finger-painting
friction area
geotumor
giant pyramidal cell
goofs off
gruneisen relation
Guadalupe, Gaňo
Holcoglossum subulifolium
humorful
initial work in process account
installation for thrust shaft bearing
interureteric fold
isabela island
junior classes
laryngopharyngeal paresthesia
locking transfer contact
Luong Son
lymphonodi retropharynici
magnetic field pressing
master fault
Medjedel
microprobe spectrometer
mine prospecting reserve
miswritten
monekur
mustardplaster
oblongifolium
open seating
pearl baileys
peformed
perforation plate
perisuchttuberculin
phaneroglossal
plumbing
poppy flower
position of class interval
positive control area
process interface module
pterocarpuss
quilted bedspread
radio-frequency radiation
reefings
remixtures
Rhododendron temenium
save fuel
SCPO
semi minor axis
service drop
spirulids
Stall Waiting
stray load loss
subordering
target arrow
tavi
the state of siege
thick plate element
tile paved surface
triangular square
Tugulym
United States minor outlying islands
upplight
wart like structure
water-bearing rock system
water-reflected system
worldwide gravimetric basic point
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