时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(七)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1.  The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing on a peaceful protest in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Saturday, killing 1 at least 81 people and wounding more than 200. The demonstration 2 was organized by Afghanistan's ethnic 3 Hazara community, a group of Shiite Muslims. 


2.  Residents in Munich, Germany paid tribute to the victims of Friday's shopping mall attack, laying flowers and lighting 4 candles as they mourned their loss. The gunman killed nine people and wounded more than two dozens, before killing himself. 


3. Hillary Clinton formerly 5 introduced senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her pick for vice 6 president, as the two appeared side by side in Florida. Clinton called Kaine a 'progressive who likes to get things done'. Kaine acknowledged this are tough times for many in the country, but said Americans are tough people. 


4. As democrats 7 geared up for the democratic national convention in Philadelphia next week, protesters got a headstart, staking out outside the rules committee on Saturday. The convention officially begins on Monday. 


Norreen Nasir, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



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 demonstration
n.表明,示范,论证,示威
  • His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
  • He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。
3 ethnic
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
4 lighting
n.照明,光线的明暗,舞台灯光
  • The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
  • The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
5 formerly
adv.从前,以前
  • We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
  • This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。
6 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
7 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
acidophile
adhesive glycoprotein
after flight deck
apecs (autoimmune polyendrocrinopathy candidiasis syndrome)
audio information
azication
azulactone
baker's
biralbo
boter
braking length
brush chattering
capacity of loss water
capsular paralysis
chromocratic
chunneller
city-council
coated filament
competence of a stream
Cotiarinha
depurgatory
devastated stream
dictionary attack
diligere
dippel
direct deal
dismally
disvouching
divisionally
Djedid, Hassi
dock trials
dragonflies
dualisations
dynamogoniograph
economy audit
electrically trip free
encouragement of investment
etaminal
Etard reaction
focusing external
fueling drain cook bowl
function area of industrial engineering
fusospirochetal disease
gematrias
genting
gleeful
graphical analysis procedure
gravimetry at sea
illegal openness
information logical machine
kimmerian
labrys
ladle refining
Lan Xang
lifetaker
lunch bag
maximumly flat filter
mercury (mercuric) fahlore (fahlerze)
mezzanine finance
middle class culture
monstercocks
neogothic
no load flow
notables
nwyn
one item shop
open-end pricing
order-fill
peripheral-limited
pernice
photographic sortie
procedure declaration part
protecting box
pteroyl acid
rasas
real expansion
rebaselined
rhizomatously
roughing cell
scotylle
Seoul Tower
sexagesimal fraction
silicon chromium steel
sobchaks
space systems
spearate channel signaling
spurfowls
syphon bellows
Tetris
total sum insured
tracking analyser
Uiwang
uncanyoned
unexaggerating
unloading rig
Wharton's jelly
wire together
writing table
xerophalmus
yellow peas
yoke