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
'Aynūnah
alkaline-earth metal alloy
alternating temperature humidity test chamber
Amerindian architecture
aminosteril L
ashtadhyayis
Ayrancilar
baby maker
bitumicarb
cancer
cinemaphotography
circular-tool
committing
converter steelmaking
cosson (le cosson riviere)
counter cell
data masking
debit advice
derro
directional carriageway marking
dissolved-oxygen sag curve
double T-iron
El Roble
elkton
Elswick
equality-of-contrast photometer
Eta-lent
extra-rinse
extrafocal photometer
fibril juncture (point)
film cooled blade
flow focus
gas cap
genga's bandage
glacialis
go round the house
hartopps
hirschorn
hungry ghost
hybrid set-top box
ies
illustratory
interior ingress
intraspinal spur
Jurupari, R.
KID Key Industry Duty
Kisana
limit science and technology
livar
long storage
Lyonia rubrovenia
machine-independent solution
metallurgy of steel casting
methyl isopropyl ether
miliary abscesses
miridical
Misale
monobutyrase
nephrograms
normal correlation surface
nourishing kidney essence
open-neck
oxygen dissolved
Papavallarine
parental dosage
parvovirus porcine parvovirus
phenol-arsonic acid
phoma camelliae
pink shower tree
Plectospirifer
police boxes
poniatowski
popis
porphyry shell
preccardinal vein
quick dispatch freight
reladle
Ron Paul
rush-grass
scanning laser fuze
selectivity of catalyst
Sino Tibetan
solicitest
specially-
storage equation
stress section
table of primes
tamper with a document
Tisiodrazida
Tonbetsu-gawa
Trout L.
unsteady aerodynamics
Usburjan
vain efforts
vanacore
wall box
waxcandle
weened
whittenberg
Wilson Pirrie rudder gear
zerbo
zero-valence