时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(四)月


英语课

 


This is AP News Minute.


The Pentagon is backing President Donald Trump 1's assertion that the missile strikes in Syria were "mission accomplished 2." At a briefing Saturday, Pentagon officials said the US-led airstrikes successfully hit every target and they were not aware of any civilian 3 casualties.


Russia condemned 4 the Syrian airstrikes at an emergency UN security meeting it requested. The US ambassador to UN, Nikki Haley, said that the US is "locked and loaded" if the Syrian regime uses poisonous gas again.


Vice 5 President Mike Pence told U.S. Allies in Latin America the US-led airstrikes on Syria "degraded and crippled" the country's chemical weapons capability 6. Pence is fling in for President Trump at the Summit of the Americas.


Tens of Thousands of people sang, cheered and cried at the funeral for anti-apartheid activist 7 Winnie Mandela. The woman often refereed 8 to as the "Mother of the Nation" is being buried as a national hero in South Africa.


This is Julian Stiles, 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 accomplished
adj.有才艺的;有造诣的;达到了的
  • Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
  • Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。
3 civilian
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
  • There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
  • He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
4 condemned
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。
5 capability
n.能力;才能;(pl)可发展的能力或特性等
  • She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
  • Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。
6 activist
n.活动分子,积极分子
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
7 refereed
vi.担任裁判(referee的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • Your focus should be on getting papers published in refereed journals. 首要的就是发表文章,而且是在匿名审稿的杂志上。 来自互联网
  • It was a national judge who refereed the game. 执法这场比赛的是国家裁判。 来自互联网
学英语单词
a case of life and death
adelogenic
aleatory contract
Anacardiaceae
animal tracking
area of blade section
bathyergid
beeling boom
beggar-my-neighbour strategies
biophonies
bogus company
boss shot,boss-shot
bossell
boyfriendish
burning-ghat
butyronitrile
catholic libraries and collections
chair-ridden
chinovnik
choroid veins of eye
chromyl chloride rubber
circular aperture
Clado's ligament
coal-rich zone
colloquial words
comancheite
Cretacious
cross-age
DDR (digital data receiver)
double-flanged butt weld
dynamoelectric amplifier
electrophonic layer
Eurofer
ewg
fancy bird
fault kernel
fazed
Flammarion, Camille
Forton
furnace safeguard supervisory system
gallery stove
gibberbird
head lateral line
hematin-hemopexin complex
high-frequency electric welded steel pipe
individual demand function
intrinsic astigmatism
isoflexes
judgement days
julius ullmen
Karel'skiy Peresheyek
Kouté
KVM switch
losetup
machinist's scraper
man machine process chart
mass crystallization
message modulation
millisiemens
musculus malaris
nicrite
non-labeled antigen
ophthalmospasm
partial pack
phacus inflexus
pick sb.'s brains
Pilões, Sa.dos
power-running
projecting stud
reduction in cross-section
reinsurance pool
remercie
removal efficiency
rosil
RSPB
run out of control
Salvia vasta
sandyachtsman
secondary metallurgy
securities exchange
see it
Sertoli's cells
siderostats
stethidium
stumpish
swear off something
teachery
terminable bond
thrust bucket
to sue
tooth taper
torsion crimping process
train-spottings
trimethyl-silyl
under color of
uniramous type appendage
unlive
velarde
wage increase
warely
well dofined feature
west-looker