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.


President Trump 1 said in an interview he may use an executive order to deny citizenship 2 to babies born to non-citizens in the US. Legal scholars say only a constitutional amendment 3 could make that change.


White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called President Trump's visit to Pittsburgh humbling 4 and sad. Mr. Trump went to the synagogue where a gunman killed 11 people on Saturday. Some people welcomed Mr. Trump but others protested.


Indonesia's navy says it found a 72-foot object in the sea near Jakarta. It's suspected to be part of the Lion Air passenger plane that crashed Monday, killing 5 189 people.


Police in rural upstate, New York say a helicopter crash killed two utility workers and injured two others. The maintenance helicopter went down after it got caught on power lines near the Canadian border.



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 citizenship
n.市民权,公民权,国民的义务(身份)
  • He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生,但没有瑞典公民身分。
  • Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后,她选择了澳大利亚国籍。
3 amendment
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
4 humbling
adj.令人羞辱的v.使谦恭( humble的现在分词 );轻松打败(尤指强大的对手);低声下气
  • A certain humbling from time to time is good. 不时受点儿屈辱是有好处的。 来自辞典例句
  • It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-buildingexperience. 据说天文学是一种令人产生自卑、塑造人格的科学。 来自互联网
5 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
学英语单词
administrative use
aliyos
amber grice
anacatesthesia
antibiotic finish
archiplasm
arginyls
attir
becauseness
bent-bar
Breton, C.
by hundreds
chamber acid
cobette
Corliss valve gear
curvularia andropogonis
cut-off r egion
damper coil
di-n-hexylamine
Dibelius, Martin
dil.
dinus
doornails
effluent characteristics
eptaloprost
excitation cross-section
export quotation
fanquinonum
free-quarter
frequency-modulated audio tone
granulocytopenias
Halblech
halftrack vehicle
head coach
hollow respiration
hot firing
huang
iceteroid
Ilex godajam
instrument cleaning cloth
integrated motor
ladies' cloakroom
Loksa
Maisach
manual governor
Mommsen
moon child
mountain orogenesis
mull over something
multi-way connector
myricetrin
no-load voltage ratio
nuclear reactor simulator
on the couch
para-chlorophenyl-N-methyl carbamate
paradoxical sleep
parapox
Paul Verlaine
peak white raster
perempted
personal memory
photographic recording oscillograph
pipe press
plain round bar
Poopo
post-fines
power-fail & restart
principle of reciprocity
probationist
pulse train generator
pythagoras ware
rag oil
ratione temperis
reach land
return technique
root sucker
run-off coefficient
scourge epidemic
shove past
sight reduction
slack salted
sore mouth
sound resonance
south south east
squirting papilla
ST_importance_things-needed-for-a-task
stacked antenna
strontium fluorochloride
super-hard alloy
t-method of multiple-comparisons
tachio
THANAT
thrail
toadshade
transitional zone
Tripterospermum hirticalyx
trouser-presses
under power
ungracious
vermox
word processing equipment with impact printer
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