时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(八)月


英语课

 


This is AP News Minute.


Hurricane Lane dropped almost two feet of rain on Hawaii's Big Island in just about a day. The big, slow-moving category 3 hurricane is expected to move close to or directly over parts of Hawaii's main islands.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared in a statement that the Justice Department will not be influenced by politics. This came after President Trump 1 criticized Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation 2.


Agents say they have found a highly sophisticated drug smuggling 3 tunnel that runs under the US-Mexico border. It surfaces beneath an abandoned Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Arizona.


And Republican Congressman 4 Duncan Hunter of California and his wife pleaded not guilty in federal court. They are accused of illegally using his campaign account for personal expenses.



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 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
3 smuggling
n.走私
  • Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
  • The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
4 Congressman
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。
学英语单词
acridophosphine
adaptedness
alternating-group occulting light
approved society
badelaire
Balmhorn
Bhaun
bromoquinoline
c-fo
catch a turn
cetyl sulfate
cimicifuga foelida l. var. simplex huth.
comprehensive abilities
contract sign
control questionnaire
curdlings
dermatodynia
directly-coupled circuit
Dodurga
Dracon
echo amplitude
educational statistics
electronic codebook
Endospermum chinense
engineering materials
fasciculus arciformis pedis
feathering device
fistle
Flora Reef
Fukuda, Takeo
gouvernance
groundwater increment
headache powder
inclusion relation for sets
indanthrene bordeaux
international servant
japanning oven
k-resonance
land line facilities
larging
lay baptism
lingulatus
location mode data item
maderensis
Madinah
masterate
Meinertellidae
mittelstands
MLCPase
narrow-bore coiumn
neidium iridis
no-thoroughfare
non-men
nonelite
nova lisboa (huambo)
nutritional dropsy
o'grady
on site repair
one-stop shops
OP (opening)
optimal cost
optionlike
original
overcentralizing
oxyacetylene flame
paired comparison method
parboils
Platygloeeae
power aid
power collection
praeterition
present arms
progressive caving
radiorenogram
ragged pink
Ranunculus muscigenus
retire bonds
ring-gap restrictor
row-galley
satellite day
scalar coupling
sectional type tube expander
selection index
shuttie
stabs
stannous phenide
stehoscopy
tartness
Tealiban
technopathy
temmoku
theorbist
theoretical dynamometer card
total loading time
transfuge
Tugella Falls
Turkish lira
ulcus serpeng eorneae
unfasteners
valnllae vaginae
vertebrocostal angle
visual value