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
abstracto
Acetobacter melanogenum
acokantherin
activewears
alkylide
amastigogenesis
angle shape ratio
annealing room
anti-oscillation vector
astrud
Bemban
broad smile
Castellar de la Ribera
compound salt
connorton
cronil
cross off
customs house officer
daily investigation for passenger flow
data protection
diffuseness-specificity(parsons)
electro-coupling control
epicurising
ethnocentralism
exchange member
fire detecting cabinet
for decades on end
fraternalizes
frontosphenoidal
fusion
genital stolon
get bored
get het up
glaived
glycosminine
green silicon carbide
h-wave
haies
Hangan
Hareto
have a crush on someone
heat-conductivity
high frequency wave
ice face
integer ring
itea yunnanensis franch.
konrad zacharias lorenzs
lactuca scariolas
Laser Vision
lensboards
liability for satisfaction
light ales
lung opening at nose
lymphosarcoma of the prostate
marine benthic community
mass service system with delay
meat-phenylene diamine
mechanics of closed die forging
minaretlike
mine valuation
naptha
ngurumanite
nonvisionary
North Equatorial Current
off-balance sheet transaction
once-invincible
pan-Serb
pansphygmograp
parnassi
Parnassia tenella
pelicks
Pelsin
pine sleeper
polystichum horridipinnum diels
positive coupling
propyl lactate
pygopleura
raffinate layer
screaming-meemies
sectorgate
self-interest
sky fog
slabber-edger
somaticizing
somitomeres
SPAR 1,Spar
specific sliding
stiffened plate
strip ... of
superconservative
symmetric kernel
telephone vote service
tenuinucellatae
teopranitol
timber freeboard mark
turbed
viragoish
vomitories
washability curve
wing walking
yorkleys
yosemites