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.


Authorities in Jacksonville, Florida say a gunman took his own life after killing 1 two people at a video game tournament. Nine people were shot and wounded and two more were hurt as crowds tried to flee.


The Jacksonville sheriff says authorities believed the gunman was a 24-year-old gamer, named David Katz. Katz was from Baltimore. FBI agents there are helping 2 in the investigation 3.


Pope Francis declined to comment on a document that claims he knew about sexual misconduct allegations against Washington's former Archbishop. The claims come from the former Vatican ambassador to the US.


Memorial services for Senator John Maccin are being planned in Phoenix 4, Washington and Annapolis, Maryland. The long-time republican senator from Arizona died on Saturday at the age of 81.



1 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 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。
3 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。
4 phoenix
n.凤凰,长生(不死)鸟;引申为重生
  • The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
  • The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
学英语单词
-dia
abstract objects
accustomise
Aegean Sea
Alexander polynomial
amandus
aphakics
at the corner
atwater value
aubier
Bagé-le-Châtel
be deprived of
breach of the obligation to...
camel back top chord
Chinese redwood
cleaning gun
Clorstom
cold reduction
Crateva
cross sectional data
daily deductible
de novo law
degenerative pannus
disobeyals
double stranded RNA
early postmortem phenomena
Economic Stabilization Act
effective precipitation
Ekrāpur
electroacoustic effect
english subtitles
enquiry and confirmation
enthalpy-entropy coordinates
faxed stars
fluid toxoid
foresyllables
from this time on
front water chamber
genus funduluss
genus scombers
give ... the slip
high-tension supply main
hurriquake
I-n-Rabir
incline bogie
indexing transfer
intermediate depot
iophendylate
isotopic measurement
Joint Army and Navy Radiotelegraph and Radiotelephone Procedure
kernel memory
kiosques
KUW
land leases
large-flowered calamints
law enforcement officer
lead generation
least total cost
lines of inquiry
lms-newton algorithm
Lolingo
longitude of node
Malit, Maja e
marking down loans
metal diaphragm
metalloporphyrin
military barracks
millenarian movement
Mount Orab
moveouts
nonrapid eye movement sleep
oleanders
open-loop mode
outglowed
overcarried
partial matching
phenol oxidase
pressure-reducing station
protective earthing
put the change on sb
pycnamine
ralliform
recovery from transplanting. turn green
running with the sea
Sedom, Har
shaar
single sheave iron pulley block
Software Update Services
spatial instability
spectromagic
spotted bamboo sheath
ST_wanting_envy-and-jealousy
sympatric segregation
tactical control console
telephone relay
temperature tester
top butt
untainted market
urban building code
vertuose
Wigston
zeffirellis