时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(十一)月


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This is AP News Minute.


At least 77 people are now known dead in the northern California wildfire, with more than 1,000 unaccounted for. A vigil was held in a church in Chico for the fire victims on Sunday.


Hundreds in Tijuana, Mexico protested the Central American caravan 1 that reached the border city. The demonstrators say the migrants who want to go to the US are messy, ungrateful and dangerous.


President Trump 2 announced he'll have 2 rallies for Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith the day before next week's Mississippi Senate runoff. California Senator Kamala Harris appeared with Democratic candidate Mike Espy 3 on Saturday.


Democratic Gil Cisneros won a tight battle for a Republican-held Southern California US House seat. It's the fourth seat to flip 4 to the Democrats 5 that's all or part in Orange County, a one-time Republican stronghold.



1 caravan
n.大蓬车;活动房屋
  • The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身。
  • Geoff connected the caravan to the car.杰弗把旅行用的住屋拖车挂在汽车上。
2 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。
3 espy
v.(从远处等)突然看到
  • Where love fails,we espy all faults.一旦失恋,缺点易见。
  • Here,from a window,did Guinevere espy a knight standing in a woodman's cart.吉尼维尔是从这里透过窗户看到了站在樵夫车上的骑士。
4 flip
vt.快速翻动;轻抛;轻拍;n.轻抛;adj.轻浮的
  • I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书,看来似乎很有趣。
  • Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。
5 democrats
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
Aberdeen Cutlet
aircraft technology
all weather (aw)
all-england
Amu Dar'ya
Andorra-la-Vella
Aramco,ARAMCO
beta-Sulfoalanine
blatterer
bogoslof i.
bulbiformin
by negotiation
campused
ceraunometer
cerebral sulcus
chikuwa
chlorination agent
commanducate
cross-pollinating species
cydariform
decryption algorithm
demand usage time
dienone
Dirft-wood
dishorns
display character generation
dolman sleeve
doorpiece
electronic mobility
encases
European Parliamentary Assembly
experimental polyprocessor system
exterior excess by cold injury
extraplanetary
fabricated element
file handle
flicking tests
floodlightings
food defrosting
force on
gauge adjusting clip
Gheorghiu-DejGheorghe
God's gift to
gravitational waves
guayaberas
Gulenist
handlike
haranguing
henna-tattooed
high coercive
high frequency drying stove
Huagaruancha
imperialised
in the practice
indian mallows
interzooecial
intrinsic coercivity
jigg by jowl
kainomyces isomali
lammermuir
Langer's muscle
lauroleic acid
loop gain matrix
M-theory
maddoxes
magma reservoir
Marconian
mastitis of newborn
Moudongouma
mwadi
nonrecurring sources of income
octodecimos
output file control block
pallet staff
pentapeptides
phase transformation (phase transition)
phylum aschelminthess
pugniard
roquefeuil
sea gudgeon
selenolate
semicyanine
semimechanical drive
she-crab soup
short-run average cost
square box spanner
steam-heating system
streetbeat
sublitharenite
sunnage
switchlike
syllabic utterance
thigh-high
trafermin
transient instabilify
trichomyces
uromeres
Virunga Mountains
wear performance
whole-brain
win initiative
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