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


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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
a scrub
a1 security
achievements in scientific research
all my sons
antenna power
as reference
Asankrangwa
autosomatognostic
bank deposit journal
barreter resistance
beauty specialist
binary azeotrope
blues scales
brosephines
cancer pathology
central reti-nitis
cgp
chiaramonte
class cyanophyceaes
cost of living
credible interval
data base control
decolonializations
diameter increment
dietary therapy
dry chamber system
dry mustard
EECL (emitter-emitter coupled logic)
electrostatic oiling
entertaining friends
fiction writer
flavr-savr
forward search
functional transformation
furniture component
gastroenteropancreatic
generic class setting
glele
hexahalogenated benzene
human component characteristic
hyper-utility function
hypervalinemia
imbues
incisal reduction
intermittently running
inventorizing
jaycie
joining with weelled tenon
jute board
kietyoite
limiter characteristic
long-course
loroxanthin
lot-river
median effective concentration
mendosa
minidrama
monovular twins
montalban
multiple indicators
murillos
neurotransmit
non-contamination fuel
out of position
outs-of-school
passive investment
petrirena
powder ash air-entrained concrete
prime compression character
process self-regulation
PSSPCL
quality product
quassia family
quollastria subtilis
raking mast
refractive wave
roediger
rourk
Saint Joseph's University
salt dehydration
saturated reactor
schiavoni
series transistor regulator
sit on a barrel of gunpowder
smallwood form factor
sodium pantothenate
spirit rappers
St-Eusèbe
standard molar enthalpy of formation
steel movable form
supermom
symplocaceaes
temmoku
tensor product method
time span
triple braided
unit cell vector
vallotton
vertical aerial effect
videos-out
walllike
wyndlase