时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(六)月


英语课

 


This is AP News Minute.


President Trump 1 says he'll start looking for a replacement 2 for retiring Supreme 3 Court Justice Anthony Kennedy immediately. Senate republicans are aiming for a quick vote, but many democrats 4 want to wait until after the mid-term elections.


US Defense 5 Secretary Jim Mattis assured South Korea that the US will keep its current number of troops in that country. The US canceled joint 6 military exercises with South Korea amid North Korean nuclear talks.


A US military team in northern Thailand is helping 7 search for 12 boys and their soccer coach. The group went missing in a cave during floods 5 days ago.


Hundreds of people have been told to evacuate 8 from a wild fire in southern Colorado. The fire has burned close to two square miles by Wednesday night.


Shirley Smith, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 replacement
n.取代,替换,交换;替代品,代用品
  • We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
  • They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。
3 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
4 democrats
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
6 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
7 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
8 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
学英语单词
After-regeneration
akarit
anomalistic magnetic variation
arheism
atf oil
austausch coefficient (austausch)
B-MOPP
bill day
black drawing
Briggsia longicaulis
Caribbean Sea
charger
chlorocruorin
cock-a-bill
coloured scenery picture
cost of quality
cuff applying forceps
d)
Delaborne
dipping acid
distune
doubling of tones
end of the period
engineery
ethylene oxidation
exon trapping
fighting load
fine mica cloth
fosphenytoin
fulcrum pin washer
fungal pneumonia
guerrilla
hand-kept
hew to the line
hull penetration plan
hybrid multi-shock shield
hydrant
impostery
incensial
industrial consumer goods
inert support
input sequence
iones
It all depends
jig machine
Kelwood
line filling
lyre of fornix
Maisonneuve fracture
mandles
medical colour TV van
mellowingly
mietkasernes
mode chart
moral economy
motor-wagon
multispeed transmission
nomade
non flowing character
ocean floor
on line refuelling
optical fiber tensile strength
peacefulness
photographic recording
pipes of peace
plunger type clay gun
pop sb up
Porphyrobacter
positive-definite
presidential candidate
pressure hull
quinazolinyl
rami mammarii laterales
rate of change
re-organisation
registrar
Reichmann's rod
reticulo-angioma
rib and truck parrel
RR (repetition rate)
school edition
selenocarbonyl
self analysis
shrink head
single-collar thrust bearing
singstress
slumism
smart phones
stepped round nose pliers
sub-microns
sunheat
surcharge on each mu of land
ten-strike
toss for
trash closet
trichmonad
twin sideband
Ubraye
unsnatch
vertical combinations
vetoing
warm language