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
'Eshqābād
a sadder and a wiser man
adductive crystallization
aerial adventitious roots
Angevin,Angevine
angina membranacea
ballistic effect
bamboo curtains
barrier layer rectifier
be up to some hanky-panky
beach party
bjornstad's syndrome(twisted hair with sensorineural deafness)
blowpipe reaction
border curve
breathlessness
broke even
Burevestnik
calamitousness
CFPR
chacid
compassionem
constructor
cotches
cut value
cypraea midwayensis
Das Keyboard
dated item
disciplinary psychology
elce
emergency act
erysipelas vesiculosum
feeding transformator
Fissura ligamenti teretis
flannel mulleins
four point contact ball bearing
fulchronograph
gauge setting
genus cymbidiums
gonidioid
groupnets
Gulkhari
Gvarinite
hat parades
homolodromiids
Honorius III
hot-wire thermal conductivity detector
hypochloremias
incapacity to
isogeneic strain
knbc-tv
Koloksha
Lemurophoenix
longlist
low band filter
lowermost deck
macrofloral
macrotrichus
magnetic gyro
maunsells
medicinally
membrane filtration culture method
nudibranchias
orchis masculas
order Dinornithiformes
Oreocharis cordatula
paralimna quadrifascia
pipewort family
poly-1-lysine
procedural texture
Pterula umbrinella
ratio of ranges
reinforced-concrete
Rhododendron hejiangense
risen above
Ruifang Township
seizing stuff
Serranus subligarius
seyns
shape factor-
shoe velvet
spamvertiser
subluxation of talus
substantial shareholding
suspensory ligament of lens
thaxton
three planes
toughen
traction transformer of Wood Bridge connection
truck tank
trunciflory
undominated
unemphatically
unhealths
unskilled work
vulpine
wellvet
werns
windproofs
wood panelling
Woolgoolga
xinhu
zuns