时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(二)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Despite the rebuke 1 of Massachusetts Senator Elisabeth Warren for criticizing colleague and attorney general-designate Jeff Sessions with the words of Coretta Scott King from three decades ago, other Democrats 2 quoted King in speeches on Wednesday. Senators Bernie Sanders and Tom Udall both read passages of the letter on the Senator floor.


Panamanian authorities say a 23-year-old U.S. tourist has been found dead on a Caribbean island. Officials said the body of Catherine Johannet of New York was found on Sunday on a trail in a wooded area not far from a beach on Bastimentos Island.


Somalia has declared a new president on Wednesday. Former prime minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo took the oath of office as the long-chaotic country moved toward its first fully 3 functioning central government in a quarter-century.


And three Malayan tiger cubs 4 are being cared for in the Cincinnati Zoo's nursery. The zoo says nursery staffers step in to help the cubs warm up and feed, as the first-time mother's maternal 5 instincts didn't kick in immediately.


Emily Roseman, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 rebuke
v.指责,非难,斥责 [反]praise
  • He had to put up with a smart rebuke from the teacher.他不得不忍受老师的严厉指责。
  • Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.哪怕迟到一分钟也将受到严厉的斥责。
2 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》
3 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
4 cubs
n.幼小的兽,不懂规矩的年轻人( cub的名词复数 )
  • a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
  • Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 maternal
adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的
  • He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
  • The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。
学英语单词
accordion structure
achromatophilia
adaptive norm
air cadet
availability model
b'
back-tensioned drawing
bastids
behind someone's back
boobie
box pump
brady-metabolism
bullah
Byronians
carbaalanes
caughts
cavity lifetime
cervical orifice of uterus
chicken sandwiches
coal road
cochain group
common markets
contra-vote
corrugated stitcher
cortical psychic blindness
covariantizes
curret
delegate function
dennie
dhoruba
dissymmetrical polyphase system
Dynamic hedging
East Worlington
educational elitism
elder-statesman
entente-cordiale
face cutting edge
film club
free electron method
gaseous substance
gear rework
gene name
glass yield
glassy tensile modulus
glume blight of rice plant
good looks
harpoon guns
Hauterivian
hot wave
ideation management
idiographic psychology
ingot solidification
insertion element
Karād
laryngeal leprosy
linear coefficient
mesonephros
migration of capital
net creditor country
non-olympic
nonagrian
ocean sediment
odd even counter
ophites
organic evolutions
overcentralize
paraboloid dish antenna
per nom
pericardial arteries
picture tearing
Plica umbilicalis lateralis
proliferates
psychogenic deafness
pump packing
pure electric vehicle
raddish
Raymond Cestan syndrome
regular wholesaler
renaldo
Rock Glen
schnurr
sentimentally
skew Hermitian scalar product
skuhravies
start of message (som)
submillimeter wave spectra
take the ball and run with it
tinning stack
ultrapowers
ununtrium
Up the Ladder
upland field
URL mapping
Uryl'
Uvaleral
variable quantities
variance within clusters
Wallis.
warded off
waterproof pump bushing
Youmen
zarph