时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(十一)月


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This is AP News Minute.


The massive northern California wildfire is now the deadliest wildfire in California history. At least 42 people are known dead and thousands of homes and other structures have been destroyed.


The huge wildfire in southern California has burned more than 400 homes and other buildings. It's about 30% contained. But firefighters are struggling with hot, dry winds.


Israeli medical services say a rocket fired by Palestine militants 2 in Gaza hit a building and killed a man. The Israeli military says militants in Gaza fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, while Israeli struck more than 100 militant 1 targets in Gaza.


And Democrat 3 Kyrsten Sinema has won Arizona's Senate seat after a slow count of mail-in ballot 4. She defeated Republican Martha McSally, and flipped 5 the seat held by retiring Republican Jeff Flake 6.



1 militant
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
2 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
3 democrat
n.民主主义者,民主人士;民主党党员
  • The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
  • About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后,他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
4 ballot
n.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
  • The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
5 flipped
轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 ); 按(开关); 快速翻转; 急挥
  • The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转,撞毁了。
  • The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。
6 flake
v.使成薄片;雪片般落下;n.薄片
  • Drain the salmon,discard the skin,crush the bones and flake the salmon with a fork.将鲑鱼沥干,去表皮,粉碎鱼骨并用餐叉子将鱼肉切成小薄片状。
  • The paint's beginning to flake.油漆开始剥落了。
学英语单词
abdominal respiration
Aberangell
Acipenser transmontanus
aecidium kaernbachii
all air heat recovery system
Alotenango
alouatta fusca
anti-knock fuel
arato
baa-lamb
Bacillus sulphureus
Barkhausen-Kurz oscillator
bay rum
butled
cable terminal rack
callistocythere ovata
calv
Cape Oil Route
chirocephaluss
christian science monitor
connecting rod assembly
coonda-oil
cosolvent effect
counting of gemstones
cypraea pulchella
dahurian buckthorn
Dayton Accord
digital indicator board
dilatometry
drought index
dry sand mold hardness penetrator
eophytes
ergaster
eye brow
fisa
gas decay tank
gelastic
get something into shape
gi(g)antism
go to the bent
Hill determinantal equation
hot-dipped terne
ice bomb
ichthoform
idle-headed
indirection
inepticality
informal joint committee on host
Interactive Cable TV
Judeocides
juglones
katsunobus
kinetic resistance
Krasnosamarskoye
Kumazawa Banzan
look after the house
low-powereds
lower-
Marble Point
mero
methenyltetrahydromethanopterin cyclohydrolase
mipcin
Monforte d'Alba
National Insurance Number
Nicolet, Jean
nonelike
open wound
order at discretion
out-loose
pedantocratic
plow press drill
polypidial pore
Potentilla reptans var. sericophylla
precipitation-hardened
race tracks
reevesia thyrsoidea lindl.
relocatable code
reversible amplifier
rospigliosis
safeholds
second spiracle
Seresta
shop-liftings
sight gage
stabilization for sands by afforestation
straw sack
superregion
surface penetration course
syndiploid
teragray
three-plug connector
three-step
tidal oscillation
time scale change factor
toluene disulfonate
troparia
truncated mouth
vacuum ion pump
volunteer plant
Western Apache
wind-tipped stereocomparator
ybedded