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.


President Trump 1 claims he let White House counsel Don Mcgahn testify to Robert Mueller's investigators 2 and has nothing to hide. The New York Times reported that Mcgahn has cooperated extensively with the Russia investigation 3.


Shots were fired at a security booth outside the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey on Monday. US officials say nobody was hurt. Reports say the shots were fired from a moving white car.


A number of strong earthquakes struck Indonesia on Sunday, killing 4 at least a dozen people. The quakes hit the same region where a powerful earthquake killed hundreds earlier this month.


And about two million Muslims in Saudi Arabia for the hajj gathered in the valley of Mount Arafat. Muslims believed the ritual gives them their best chance to cleanse 5 sins and get a new start.



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 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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 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。
5 cleanse
vt.使清洁,使纯洁,清洗
  • Health experts are trying to cleanse the air in cities. 卫生专家们正设法净化城市里的空气。
  • Fresh fruit juices can also cleanse your body and reduce dark circles.新鲜果汁同样可以清洁你的身体,并对黑眼圈同样有抑制作用。
学英语单词
'aircut
acetal phospholipid
Apcohist
as the need arises
assembling part
autopuley glider launching
begging letters
bluish eosin
boot-lick
bounce time
business card holder
Butomus umbellatus
caryoclasis
chaubisho r.
chemoluminescence
circumciseth
city and country
classic bushes
closing
coal-tar solution
cog in the machine
crack both on body and glaze
cultural hegemony
Dactylopterus
data link layer
deadweight gauge
dehairing machine
diazonitrophenol
dinghy boat
draft-dodger
electronic detent
electronic digitized theodolite
feed inlet
first passage
frondless
gas outlet valve
hapax-legomenon
Hessen, Land
impishness
interest test
keep way
Le Bleymard
Lehe
light-duties
m-banking
macroglossum ungues cheni
mades-to-measure
mccandless
metapodialia
microbenchmark
Minoress
moonblindness
Mucor corymbifer
munadi
narrow spectral line
nickel arsenite
notarially certified transaction
nursey
obsessive disorder
Ormosia glaberrima
oxygen top blow converter
palatials
parallel-feedback operational amplifier
percent rate wattage
phase-modulation transmitter
phyllothelys cornutus
plastination
pleuronectes platessas
primary xylem
Primulina
priority pseudo-variable
re-sealing
rubberisation
satellite uplink
scatella bullacosta
self-propulsion
spinner-type potato digger
stock transfer form
strabism
streape
subeucalanus crassus
sutura l?vis
tailored
take the laboring oar
tartarize
technical value clause
third string
thread fit
Titus Vespasianus Augustus
Trentine
tumour
twin-passage bucket elevator
United States government
univariate
unprurient
up-and-down indicator
virgin comb
waste-pipe
Weissenbrunn
well-ringed
winch ratchet wheel
yeide