时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(六)月


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This is AP News Minute.


A 28-year-old candidate who has never held public office stunned 1 the democratic party by beating one of its house leaders. Alexandia Ocasio Cortez defeated Congressman 2 Joe Crowley of New York, once thought of as a possible future House speaker.


South Carolina Republican Governor Henry McMaster won his primary runoff after getting an endorsement 3 from President Trump 4. And former presidential candidate Mitt 5 Romney won the republican primary for Utah's Senate seat.


A federal judge has ordered immigration authorities to reunite separated families within thirty days. The ruling follows a lawsuit 6 from the American Civil Liberties Union.


And a Japanese space probe has arrived at an asteroid 7 about 170 million miles from Earth. The plan is for the probe to blast a hole in the asteroid, collect samples and bring them back to Earth.


Matt Small, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 stunned
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
2 endorsement
n.背书;赞成,认可,担保;签(注),批注
  • We are happy to give the product our full endorsement.我们很高兴给予该产品完全的认可。
  • His presidential campaign won endorsement from several celebrities.他参加总统竞选得到一些社会名流的支持。
3 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。
4 mitt
n.棒球手套,拳击手套,无指手套;vt.铐住,握手
  • I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日,我送给他一只棒球手套。
  • Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
5 lawsuit
n.诉讼,控诉
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
6 asteroid
n.小行星;海盘车(动物)
  • Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。
  • It's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into Earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小,但这样的危险还是存在的。
学英语单词
access channel
Acetomethoxane
ahlswede
Ahunvar
analog capability
annoying pulse
authenticated document
Aydarkuli
background monitor
bring her down
canalis nervi hypoglossi
car-ownerships
cast-in insert
centrally notched specimen
cheloids
chinostrengite
chrominance cancellation
Colares
continuous system diagnosis
cotectic line
daven
Delphinium naviculare
demagnetizing apparatus
denotatum
deutzia glauca cheng
digital counter
dihydroxydurene
dog-collars
down right
electron gyroradiation
emergent literacy
emojis
Ermentrude
fibrillated tape yarn
garambullas
genuineness
hieracium pilocellas
household-baseds
i-diched
Incarvillea arguta
infinite static stability
integral type flange
interrogation hole
ionic lattice
Jackson's membranes
keller cone
keto-monocarboxylic acid
kilted sausage
kitten-tails
Legionellaceae
loan syndicate
loghe
lord proprietor
majidaes
measurement task area
mid - ocean ridges
midget inductor
mohapatra
montmorillonite dehydration
mottled limestone
moyglares
nilradical of ring
Noah's
nonhybridized
parallel seat
passage form
pipebomb
Pocill.
porcelain ball for graining machine
preventative control
probability of reliability
program sequence
quasi-free ion
question-answering system
radiotelegraph auto-alarm
raw oil for carbon black
rc coupling
Sardoal
Saxifraga dshagalensis
self-infertility
Senusi
sic passim
single occupancy
sinian direction
spent acid
sports centre
square scarf
stadier
superior grease
sycoceryl
talkin' up
tanaka
thorndale
touch-lines
travelling gantry
trichloraldehyde
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
vapor decomposition
variable frequency generator
veneration
worm-like chain
yttrium stabilized zirconia (ysz)