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
accuminate
aemi-circular beta spectrograpn
an ear for something
annual training
arms of rotor
assicon
back letter
bar-chain method
blindable
Bramante
budgeting technique
calorie-free
charlane
chauffeuse
chinoin
conveyer lever cam
corallo
counselleth
day-night neutral plant
delta ray
descend
despumates
direct rotary press
diskitis
double talk
Dyak hair ulcers
eight-channel magnetic tape recorder
explosion welding
fiber classification
fibergastroduodenoscopy
Formigoni
functional composition
gain on sale of investment
Gapyeong
general rate of profit
genophytes
genus Arctostaphylos
haematization
head roll
high sulphur coke
hinged frame
home carers
homogamies
icklest
ideograms
illustrative system
interrupta
jolting plate
Kalegauk I.
keratogenous zone
lamellophone
lava-rock
library maintenance processor
lilly-pillies
long home
look like one's usual self
machine intellegence
maep
malamocco
Mayor's sign
middlepath
militarylike
minimum recommended firing current
mocklay snow plow
nitrolar
non-hero
optical scattering
outer shell electron
pasterer
Pdn, public data network.
percent reactance
picture seeking
plant of perennial monocarp
platys
potash manure
preselected trajectory
primary wave
republish
resiccate
schmoozed
Semiarundinaria gracilipes
shear off someone's plume
shift-changes
sideromelane
social influence theory
software subsystem
struive
sucks up
tax collecting
theory of vibration
thymohydroquinone
transient voltage regulation
tree-onion
Trivero
Tungnahryggsjökull
tunica albuginea corporis spongiosi penis
uncouther
unredacted
Vavozhskiy Rayon
volcanic spine
watertightness
ziegenfuss