时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


President Trump 1 used a rally in Mississippi to mock Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Supreme 2 Court nominee 3 Brett Kavanaugh. Ford's attorney, on Twitter, called President Trump's words a vicious, vile 4 and soulless attack.


A new report claims President Trump received more than 400 million dollars from his father, much of it through dubious 5 tax scheme or fraud. The White House and President's lawyer both rejected the report in the New York Times.


A volcano erupted in Indonesia, on the same island that an earthquake hit on Friday. Planes were warned about volcanic 6 ash but no evacuations were immediately ordered.


18 people including a congressional candidate were arrested while protesting outside a McDonald's restaurant in Detroit. The demonstrators were calling for a higher minimum wage and the right to form labor 7 unions.



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 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
3 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
4 vile
adj.卑鄙的,可耻的,邪恶的;坏透的
  • Who could have carried out such a vile attack?会是谁发起这么卑鄙的攻击呢?
  • Her talk was full of vile curses.她的话里充满着恶毒的咒骂。
5 dubious
adj.怀疑的,无把握的;有问题的,靠不住的
  • What he said yesterday was dubious.他昨天说的话很含糊。
  • He uses some dubious shifts to get money.他用一些可疑的手段去赚钱。
6 volcanic
adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
7 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
学英语单词
4-CLTP
abluted
acrylations
adeps benzoinatus
agree to disagree
anionradicals
artificial flavoring
auto-collimating
Bashovo
Bayes method
beaneys
becharmed
blast furnace lift
boat-set stow net
cannabivarin
Central London Railway
Cetingrad
charge of supplementary handling work
charisms
chart diagram
club-room
cold briquetting
count sb in
D25
Dall sheep
deckhouse top
demi-sels
denationalization
Doctors' Plot
end-of-season
equatorial electrojet
eudaemonia
excited states
fenouil
fibre-reinforced plastics
fiddler's fare
Forteana
fracture behavior
fund deposition
fuzz tone
genital rachis
glass-type coating material
glucose-cysteine
goods on consignment-in
groyne spacing
hackworthy
haloids
hemihydrates
instrument with contact
ion implantation MOS integrated circuit
iprazochrome
irish-catholic
javar
Jim-Crow,jim-crow
lizardry
lumpy curd
lvdt
mactating
majok
make a god of her belly
mbox
McPherson, Aimee Semple
merit-rating plan
network-television
non-overlapping observation
non-repudiation of knowledge
oil crisis control
ovals of Cassini
page limit clause
phosphocreatinase
photodissociated
plagusiids
pneumo-oil switch
Polygonatum multiflorum L.
preadministration
proletaire
psychophysics
rd-a
reminds of
resonant four-terminal network
sarco-
scherospathite
service brake
setal lobe
slickened
soakages
strait-lacedness
sundry commission paid
surface acoustic wave oscillator
syncytial trophoblast
target load
tender-conscienced
thalamita edwardsi
throwing index
Tiguent
tour foreman
verification operation
VLBWI
weakened body resistance
winding tube
work like a horse
yellow sand verbena