时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(五)月


英语课

 


This is AP news minute. 


1. An internal state department review finds that Hillary Clinton disregarded department guidelines. The review shows Clinton never thought approval to review private emails to conduct business, as well as never showing that the server and Blackberry she used met minimal 1 security requirements. 


2. Texas governor Greg Abbott says the state will be the first to sue the Obama administration over the new federal guidelines for transgender students in public school. Several conservative states have vowed 3 defiant 4 the federal directive to let transgender students use the bathroom and locker-room to match their gender 2 identity. 


3. The head of the transportation security administration said help is on the way to address long airport security line. The agency will add 768 new screeners by mid 5, June. 


4. And a 6-month old baby in Florida is trying to break the world record for the youngest water skier 6. The  30-inch girl who doesn't walk was put on a junior sized skis by her professional water skier parents. While the baby may to attempt, there is no official word on if her record was set. 


Suzanne Yee Gaffney, the associated press, with AP news minute.



1 minimal
adj.尽可能少的,最小的
  • They referred to this kind of art as minimal art.他们把这种艺术叫微型艺术。
  • I stayed with friends, so my expenses were minimal.我住在朋友家,所以我的花费很小。
2 gender
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
3 vowed
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
4 defiant
adj.无礼的,挑战的
  • With a last defiant gesture,they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.他们被带走投入监狱时,仍以最后的反抗姿态唱起了一支革命歌曲。
  • He assumed a defiant attitude toward his employer.他对雇主采取挑衅的态度。
5 mid
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
6 skier
n.滑雪运动员
  • She is a skier who is unafraid of danger.她是一名敢于冒险的滑雪者。
  • The skier skimmed across the snow.滑雪者飞快地滑过雪地。
学英语单词
active center
agronomically
aliyas
assistance contribution
atomic cross-section
atrhroclasia
attitude indicator (ai)
autocreation
axillary trichomadesis
ayear
Bonyhard organization
broadband absorption
caisson marine railway
chemoes
compartiment
compatriate
cpc
crank radius-connecting rod length ratio
deca-joule
delichon urbicas
digital display console
dipridamole
do you have Wi-Fi
earshell
eclecticized
Epilobium ciliatum
esterhazy
exopterygotas
frequency bias
full-decatising
general aviation
Glochidion ramiflorum
good and sure
goose-dung ore
grape sprayer
grind the faces of the poor
heat conditioning
heliomyelitis
hosiery dyeing
hygienic demography
input/output interruption
integrated hydrocarbon stripping process
intellectual reproduction
international mailgram service
intuitive stage
john steinbecks
kirt
Koepe sheave
lamination coating
Lyonnesse
magnesium
main power plant
meningiomyelocele
MOS bite
motor neurone disease
multiplexing time slice
nanobridge
national expenditure
noncelebratory
optical mode of vibration
pastroralism
petree
plasmucrine
platinate
pole surface loss
propagation error
Proryvnoye
protection survey
Pythagoricism
quadridentate chelate
ramming stay
read half-pulse
replunder
round copper bar
salaat
sand separator
ship position
Sibuti, Sungai
silico-extraction of cataract
simple catenary suspension
Sm-EDTMP
soap framing
stable voltage source for TV
stage equipment
strontium bitartrate
tangential
technology stack
tera-radians
total value of farm output
underground conveyer
undreams
unitizations
unloading
unmean
veals
veneta
ventricular veins
weighing rain-gauge
weighted square of mean
wullen
XML Protocol
zero-order hold filter