时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Brett Kavanaugh made his way to Capitol Hill on Thursday morning ahead of what promises to be high drama. A hearing in which Senators will listen to a woman accuse the Supreme 1 Court nominee 2 of sexually assaulting her, then weigh his denial. It is the first time the country sees and hears from Kavanaugh's first accuser.


Across the street from the Capitol building, protesters gathered at the Supreme Court, chanting "Kavanaugh! No!" and holding signs that said "I believe Christine", in reference to Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford 3.


Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said at the UN Wednesday that he objects to President Donald Trump's actions against his government and says that the "illegal unilateral sanctions" are part of a bullying 4 tactic 5 by the US. His speech came on the same day that 6 countries asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Maduro on charges of crimes against humanity.


The Milwaukee County zoo has its first red panda cub 6. The cub was born on June 6 and is now about 7 pounds. Estimates put the population of adult red pandas at less than 2,500 in the wild. They also have an approximate 86% mortality rate.



1 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
2 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
3 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
4 bullying
v.恐吓,威逼( bully的现在分词 );豪;跋扈
  • Many cases of bullying go unreported . 很多恐吓案件都没有人告发。
  • All cases of bullying will be severely dealt with. 所有以大欺小的情况都将受到严肃处理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 tactic
n.战略,策略;adj.战术的,有策略的
  • Reducing prices is a common sales tactic.降价是常用的销售策略。
  • She had often used the tactic of threatening to resign.她惯用以辞职相威胁的手法。
6 cub
n.幼兽,年轻无经验的人
  • The lion cub's mother was hunting for what she needs. 这只幼师的母亲正在捕猎。
  • The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast. 这头幼兽吸吮着它妈妈的奶水。
学英语单词
-ocratic
Acipayam
antiquites
aphasiology
Austenitic manganese steel casting
backward-forward counter
barbed words
bird-scarer
blotted out
Breitenworbis
brisset
carcinoma telangiectodes
carrier reduced SSB
cementing structure
certified public accountant law
Charles Taze
coating materials for optical fibres
compartmented switchgear and controlgear
desert scrub
dextrosamine
DIPR
diversity telemetry
dogeate
dorme
dust-proof
electromechanical circuit
elákovice
embargoed
ENE, E.N.E.,e.n.e.
ex-factory price
feijoas
fittings-out
flyball bovernor
funnel shaped borehole
garden center
geographic profile
gleu
goofer
gouty pharyngitis
h-line
henleys
high flux
high speed digital counter
hook cycle
Hunter Mts.
Idyum
immigration load
Immunization strategy
index of eigenvalue
industrial-accident reserve
inust
irradiation protective glass
Kiskomarom
level terrain
like a bird
local-for-local
malarial mosquito
melter
ne-he recovery equipment
neogeography
no-numeric application
nomographing
nonlinear grammar
Old World yew
ornatest
outlet pressure of monitor
period expense
pillar harp
pin wrench
plane of symmetric isomerism
pre-owned vehicle
precandidates
Proto-Mayan
Pterodactylus
public-service corporations
puffing hole
Rhincodontidae
rose-gold
scattered ion energy
scelotyrbe tarantismus
senile soil
sodium uranyl carbonate
subcontraction
subsilicate
sweep-through jamming
T-50 test
tangible instruments of production
TATPM
technological processing
tilting u-tube manometer
time-coincidence circuit
toonophiles
ubu
unloading terminal
vacuum capping
vertical boom excavator
volochysk (volochisk)
Vostochnoye Munozero
walk in the snow
washiest
we say
word-splitting