时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(一)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Donald Trump 1's company confirms it plans to expand its golf resort near Aberdeen, Scotland. Trump has vowed 2 his company will do no new foreign deals while he's president. Some government ethics 3 lawyers say the project raises concerns about a possible conflict of interests.


A source says president-elect Trump will name former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to be his Agriculture Secretary. Perdue has operated in agricultural business.


A newly-elected West Virginia sheriff resigned from his job and admitted in court that he is a meth addict 4. Former Roane County Sheriff Bo Williams pleaded guilty in court to stealing the drug from a police locker 5. It was being used as evidence in a case.


And snow and ice have left parts of Oregon and Washington dealing 6 with power outages. Dozens of crashes were reported in Washington State's Snoqualmie Pass, after snow, sleet 7 and freezing rain made driving dangerous.


Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 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。
2 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。
3 ethics
n.伦理学;伦理观,道德标准
  • The ethics of his profession don't permit him to do that.他的职业道德不允许他那样做。
  • Personal ethics and professional ethics sometimes conflict.个人道德和职业道德有时会相互抵触。
4 addict
v.使沉溺;使上瘾;n.沉溺于不良嗜好的人
  • He became gambling addict,and lost all his possessions.他习染上了赌博,最终输掉了全部家产。
  • He assisted a drug addict to escape from drug but failed firstly.一开始他帮助一个吸毒者戒毒但失败了。
5 locker
n.更衣箱,储物柜,冷藏室,上锁的人
  • At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
  • He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。
6 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
7 sleet
n.雨雪;v.下雨雪,下冰雹
  • There was a great deal of sleet last night.昨夜雨夹雪下得真大。
  • When winter comes,we get sleet and frost.冬天来到时我们这儿会有雨夹雪和霜冻。
学英语单词
abnormal magnetic variation
advertisement rates
aileen
alignment test
amidoximes
angle structure
arrears of stock
ashamed for
authorage
Badian
Bennan
blooey,blooie
bobbing a light
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
brass wire gauge
bruant
Bulbophyllum hirtum
caricous
Carinena
carrying piece
Castelnuovo della Daunia
catadrome
cell furnace
chinchillid
cold-rolled steel
color separation filter
computed altitude
cool one's heels
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly County
cranks
dependence structure
deprojects
dichloromethanes
Dryomyzidae
electrode holding and slipping mechanism
elevation pressure
error stop
feverite
gelutong
genus discinas
heterogeneous quantifier
HTML mail
individual entomoecology
inguinal branches
insulating level
Jokneam
Kariaku
lamb hog
large scale maps
linear series
link board
liquid instrument
low salt
magnitude of stress
marginal plates
maximum power supply voltage
messenger roller
milesina exigua
mLAN
Murex purpurea
Mwomboshi
nuclear survivability
overhead fan
overpitched
palaeoenvironmental
Papallacta
paraboloid cone
pass a wet sponge over something
passenger quay
peops
phase of articulation
pomatia
porcupine ball
prior heat treatment
prolabium
proscind
quick-adjusting micrometer calliper
Rami interventriculares septales
re-litigating
resino-
ripple drift bedding
row scanning
run-on chapters
running characteristic of an electrode
salt splitting capacity
semi-winterness
slangwhang
south porch
stagewear
sticks&stones
substantive audit test
sulphur hexafluoride circuit breakers
tank-type circuit breaker
teasing out
telemetry building
time of planting
transaction motive
turnover of inventories
two stage melting process
Upper Canada Vill.
vidicon focus coil
Ziff Davis Media