时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(一)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute.


1. President Obama commuted 1 the 25 years prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, freeing her in May. Manning acknowledged leaking diplomatic cables and national security documents to Wikileaks for publication in 2010. Wikileaks' editor Julian Assange said on Twitter last week he will surrender to U.S authorities if Manning got clemency 2


2. President-elect Donald Trump 3 welcomed nearly 150 diplomats 4, plus donors 5 and incoming White House staffers to a dinner in Washington. 


3. Orlando, Florida police caught the man accused of shooting and killing 6 an Orlando police officer last week. Markys Loyde was wearing body armor and carrying two handguns when he surrendered. 


4. And a sinkhole nearly swallowed a truck in a parking lot northeast of Atlanta. Local officials say all pipes beneath the parking lot apparently 7 rusted 8 away and caved in. 


Sandy Kozel,  the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



通勤( commute的过去式和过去分词 ); 减(刑); 代偿
  • His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment. 他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
  • The death sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment. 死刑可能減为无期徒刑。
n.温和,仁慈,宽厚
  • The question of clemency would rest with the King.宽大处理问题,将由国王决定。
  • They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书。
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。
n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 );有手腕的人,善于交际的人
  • These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
  • The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
v.(使)生锈( rust的过去式和过去分词 )
  • I can't get these screws out; they've rusted in. 我无法取出这些螺丝,它们都锈住了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • My bike has rusted and needs oil. 我的自行车生锈了,需要上油。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
5-Oxoproline
abridge sb.of sth.
adjugate equivalence
adulable
angle of sight
auto-trigger
be at grass
bilney
borat
bounden duty
brother of the whip
brownfield deployment
cantilevered
cerrado
chorologic
clencher tyre
constituent countries
contact mineral
copenhagen (kobenhavn)
cosmic radio burst
cotule
cutbacks
damage received in collision
deep well pump(ing unit)
deliquity
deposit funds
depth of folding
diamantiferous
end instrument
enteroanastomoses
ept-
EPTHIANURDAE
erythralosmine
feminising
freira
generator transformer block
genus Callophis
grus vipio
gun shy
historiographically
house load operation
hurry through
identify absolute mode
intra-uterine dislocation
issue syndicate
javeline
kauri gum
Laubry-Routier-Vanbogaert sign
Leipoa ocellata
leiter
Lonicera elisae
love all
Mahammid
Margashirsha
marlen
master keys
matriculators
membranes Brunn's
mendeleeve's law
method of analysis
mission-oriented network
mutual modulation
Mélicourt
nient comprise
nijmegens
nine-feet
obtain the ascendancy over
on the lift
on-of control system
paper with silkworm eggs
Parkstone
pearl white
phoenix column
pins down
pnpv
port sudans
relative gravity difference
residual radial velocity
ring-gap restrictor
schwart
serum total cholesterol
sewage comminute and disinfect system
show to
Shvarikha
simplicial subdivision
skirt expander
slidage
Stysanus
tabooing
Taichung County
tara vines
teacher's pets
tengkus
thalamolenticular
the land of nod
tool-to-tool
tractus bulbothalamicus medialis
tribe bovinis
tyre-chain repairing pliers
windx
wrap-ups
zero offset control