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
amoeb(a)ean
anvil-block
audio visual instruction technique
available chlorine quantity
B-Dere
Baganian Pen.
benthonic realm
bill drawn payable to bearer
boarding passes
calibre ratio of combustion chamber
caserne
Celtis laevigata
ceratozamia
child orthopaedic operating table
cisanal setae
cluster radioactivity
co operative farm
consensus motif
cottontail
counter flow
cross terms
data inputting methodology
date of bill
degraded pulse
delayed reaction
diffuser lose
double-bass
electrode type salt-bath resistance furnace
extracutaneous
faded green
favo(u)rable terms
Fonatol
forced-draft boiler
foreign body in stomach
futuri
gas fuel supply system
graphic extension
greater doxology
ha(u)lm
hamline
heat sore
high-energy collision
hole diffusion length
holes for screw
homalia trichomanoides japonica
human rights record
humid limestone brown loam
hythergraph
individual account
intensity-time curve examination
inter-group communications
interfascicular nerve anastomosis
IRDS
laghter
mass extinction cross section
MCMOPS
mercerizing finish
micropsychoanalysis
neutralization reactions
nonreturn-to-zero change on one
Novesin
nyberg
oleyl nitrile
opaques
output storage
over-temperature
planar pivot four-bar mechanism
post-spawnings
primary org unit indicato
printed circuits
propaedeutic prospecting stage
pumping element spacing
reconstruction of facecontour
romancero
saint-mont
self-directedness
sequential logic equation
slop-pails
smoke-stop partition
snow removal
stack pointer register
stiff-tailed
stove bolts
strikingest
symmetrical anastigmat
tachykinin
tenpercentery
thick-voiced
Tiselius, Arne
to collect (lacquer or latex) by cutting into bark
top-most whorl of leaves
Trichoprosopon
ulcerative keratitis
ultrahigh frequencies
uniramian
User error
VDNA
veiling reflections
vernal equinox correction
Wellington, I.
yakety-yak
Yuanlin Township