时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(一)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Donald Trump 1's company confirms it plans to expand its golf resort near Aberdeen, Scotland. Trump has vowed 2 his company will do no new foreign deals while he's president. Some government ethics 3 lawyers say the project raises concerns about a possible conflict of interests.


A source says president-elect Trump will name former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to be his Agriculture Secretary. Perdue has operated in agricultural business.


A newly-elected West Virginia sheriff resigned from his job and admitted in court that he is a meth addict 4. Former Roane County Sheriff Bo Williams pleaded guilty in court to stealing the drug from a police locker 5. It was being used as evidence in a case.


And snow and ice have left parts of Oregon and Washington dealing 6 with power outages. Dozens of crashes were reported in Washington State's Snoqualmie Pass, after snow, sleet 7 and freezing rain made driving dangerous.


Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.



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 vowed
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
3 ethics
n.伦理学;伦理观,道德标准
  • The ethics of his profession don't permit him to do that.他的职业道德不允许他那样做。
  • Personal ethics and professional ethics sometimes conflict.个人道德和职业道德有时会相互抵触。
4 addict
v.使沉溺;使上瘾;n.沉溺于不良嗜好的人
  • He became gambling addict,and lost all his possessions.他习染上了赌博,最终输掉了全部家产。
  • He assisted a drug addict to escape from drug but failed firstly.一开始他帮助一个吸毒者戒毒但失败了。
5 locker
n.更衣箱,储物柜,冷藏室,上锁的人
  • At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
  • He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。
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。
7 sleet
n.雨雪;v.下雨雪,下冰雹
  • There was a great deal of sleet last night.昨夜雨夹雪下得真大。
  • When winter comes,we get sleet and frost.冬天来到时我们这儿会有雨夹雪和霜冻。
学英语单词
ablauts
additive gene effect
amateur photographer
annual aberrations
appliance computer
ATM Forum
Audenian
back-of-beyond
blind equalization
browndown
cablegram
Chamaedaphne calyculata
cinamolol
coffee liqueur
color matrix unit
combined depreciation-and-upkeep method
comma construction
complex curved surface
continuous disc approach
cornettist
corrected parameter
Coucouron
crossed field device
defence case
deoxycholic acid
distortion elimination
dystrophies
eudnophite
exult at
fall line
faradizing
fugaciousnesses
fulminant type
gain recovery
geographical name data bank
gnathostatics
Guerville
halo region
Hangaroa
haplological
Heat productivities
hemihydrate gypsum
if possible
jack casing
ketotifens
lichenification
liponym
liquid alloy
logging identification
lummer brodhun cube
Mad Avenue
midget tropical storm
moulding sand moisture
multiplicative group
nigrostriatally
noise-power-ratio
Nses
o.a.t.
oleum juniperi
oodinium pillularis
open as the day
oxyurichthys amabalis
parathermic
passive line monitor
pereskia aculeatas
peryton
Plistophora
possibilities list
power transmission capacity of power line
pragma in line
pragmalinguistic
presuperscript
project level
radio-control
reed screen with flower
renal transplant
repairing mass
riparian rights
rules and procedures
safety valve base
signal(l)ing key
Skeat
space of right coset
spatio-
speroes
steering-column case
Stiglyn
stipulaeform
Stria longitudinalis medialis
subinguinal
target profit transfer price
tea chest bass
tenderizer
tetherow
time hire
underrepresented
visual size
Waterway Marks
weakly differentiable function
Wilberforce, Samuel
xanthogenic acid
zero-impedance