时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2016(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Republican vice 1 presidential candidate Mike Pence says he'll be back on the campaign trail on Friday. Pence's campaign plane slipped off a runway while landing in New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday night. Nobody was hurt.


At least 117 people were arrested in North Dakota on Thursday when authorities ousted 2 protesters from private land in the path of the Dakota Access oil pipeline 3. The pipeline's route is near an Indian reservation, and activists 4 say it could threaten the water supply.


7 ranchers charged in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refugee in Oregon were all found not guilty of conspiracy 5 charges on Thursday. Group leader Ammon Bundy was not released as he faces charges from a separate armed standoff with authorities.


And parts of the Southeast are dealing 6 with a drought and spreading wildfires. Fires have burned more than 12,000 acres in Alabama in the past month. Forecasters say no rain is in sight.


Sandy Kozel, The Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 vice
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。
2 ousted
驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺
  • He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
  • He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。
3 pipeline
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
4 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 conspiracy
n.阴谋,密谋,共谋
  • The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
  • He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。
6 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
学英语单词
affectional preference minorities
argentaffine grannles
arsey
asphalt pavement
astrosclereid
batcha
best-evidence rule
bills of lading
birchy
blue phone line
cellular ceramics
cheeseball
Colburn, Irving Wightman
constant damping locus
container's lock
contradicts
counter-clerk
cunnanes
dacryostegma
dense in itself
drawbridge coupler
eburneous
electrometers
electronic countermeasure (ecm)
emeraldines
epinephrine inhalation
exercise a claim
flux-cutting law
folding hatch cover
folkcraft
forcipiger flavissmus
fractional-horsepower asynchronous motor
funneled pipe
gentle manners
ground penetrating radar
high-speed-rail
Hilliard's lupus
housing centre
IAATM
idiopathic myocardiopathy
impotency
inserted coloumn
intracanalicular fibroma
Irula
Jewniverse
Johari window
kirinensis
laforgue
leakoff-type shaft seat
long-vowel mark
lophosteon
low pressure fan
Manakau
manganese ion
Marmarica
monopsonists
monster.com
N-truss
naphthene-base crude (petroleum)
Noorden treatment
offset disk harrow
operation vehicle for contact wire
optical journal reader
oregon moonstone
orleans-born
out-of-hours trading
parsva
Percutanous
philosophorum
phosphorial
phosphoryl
prefiring action
prehjistoric
premium
presbyopia lenses
preshow
propazolamide
rolling-ball planimeter
scientific empiricism
seedling blight
sphenomorphus indicus
spinach with poached egg
spring capacity
stupre
substantialised
superconducting microscope
systematics of isotope abundance
T-bandages
tea-chests
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
total government revenue
tower portal of bridge
trispectra
turrid
unit green area
usui
vertical incidence transmission
vervet monkey disease
VF selective calling
waffling on
whale-watch