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.


President Barack Obama defended his decision to grant clemency 1 to convicted leaker Chelsea Manning. Mr. Obama made the comments at the White House Wednesday during his last press conference as president. The president said he felt comfortable justice has been served and Manning has served a tough prison sentence.


Donald Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency says that climate change is real. This came during Scott Pruitt's Senate confirmation 2 hearing in response to questions by Democrats 3. Pruitt's response breaks with both the president-elect and his own past statements.


Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara are both in a Texas hospital. The 92-year-old was admitted over the weekend for shortness of breath, while Mrs. Bush was reportedly admitted as a precaution after experiencing fatigue 4 and coughing.


And the world's oldest panda in captivity 5 reached a major milestone 6 Wednesday, celebrating her 37th birthday in a breeding center in China. The average lifespan for a panda in the wild is reportedly 18 to 20 years, while in captivity, it's 30 years.


Suzanne Yee Gaffney, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 clemency
n.温和,仁慈,宽厚
  • The question of clemency would rest with the King.宽大处理问题,将由国王决定。
  • They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书。
2 confirmation
n.证实,确认,批准
  • We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
  • We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前,我们需要书面确认。
3 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》
4 fatigue
n.疲劳,劳累
  • The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.这位老妇人不能忍受长途旅行的疲劳。
  • I have got over my weakness and fatigue.我已从虚弱和疲劳中恢复过来了。
5 captivity
n.囚禁;被俘;束缚
  • A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
  • He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。
6 milestone
n.里程碑;划时代的事件
  • The film proved to be a milestone in the history of cinema.事实证明这部影片是电影史上的一个里程碑。
  • I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。
学英语单词
abducens nerve
air conditioning package
Aix gold leaf
almond-milk
apple rust
asterites
atropinization
back-seated valve
belating
bell sheep
boweries
carbonized oven
channel width variation
charging nozzle
Collocalia
condenser magnification
configuration service
dark light
detrita
digital storage
Douai
draw it strong
electroweak theory
event server
external sorting
fb data set
Fleischner's disease
foreign trade
from coast to coast
gas shield
glitchier
gomphothere
guardrails
haywires
heavy oil desulfurization
hip hone
HNI
hydro extracting cage
iincandescence
impose fines on someone
incoordinate movement
interconnected star winding
Karāthā'
lease in perpetuity
lemonhead
London metal exchange
Lugovatka
macroconidia
magnetite diallagite
manage the labouring oar
Marine Automatic Meteorological Oceanographic station
microvesicular
nugild
on-trials
Open File in Browser
outstricken
over-specialization
Paja Brava
pendant light
performance improvement
pickup press
primaquine (di)phosphate
psychomotor agitation
Pulitzer-prize-winner
quasi-mode
Radville
Redwitz an der Rodach
rejected production
rethawing
rocker rail
Rousseau
Santiago Chimaltenango
Schroon Lake
second-level stack
semicelebrity
sense of equilibrium
shopping village
sinbad
single mode operation
snaky edge
solvent method
sound talkie
spirit on
stemmed the torrent
stole fee
sure up
symbolic adjunction
tail volume method
tenemental
three point cross
Toligaon
top-level
trick-cyclists
trouble back jack
turn their back on
ujjayi
venting plug
veronite (celadonite)
VHF (very high frequency)
warp yarn
witness's oath
zacapa