时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(四)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Toronto, Canada authorities say it appears the person who drove a van over busy streets and mowed 1 down pedestrians 2 was acting 3 deliberately 4. At least ten people were killed. A 25-year-old man is in custody 5.


The man accused of shooting dead four people in a Tennessee waffle house is being held on two million dollars bond. Travis Reinking faces four counts of criminal homicide. He was arrested on Monday.


CIA director Mike Pumpeo's nomination 6 to be Secretary of State now goes to the full Senate. He won the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's recommendation by a narrow vote.


And President Trump 7 hosts French President for a state dinner at the White House on Tuesday. It's the first official state visit of the Trump presidency 8.


Shirley Smith, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 mowed
v.刈,割( mow的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The enemy were mowed down with machine-gun fire. 敌人被机枪的火力扫倒。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Men mowed the wide lawns and seeded them. 人们割了大片草地的草,然后在上面播种。 来自辞典例句
2 pedestrians
n.步行者( pedestrian的名词复数 )
  • Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement. 几个行人在结冰的人行道上滑倒了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Pedestrians keep to the sidewalk [footpath]! 行人走便道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
4 deliberately
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
5 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
6 nomination
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
7 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。
8 presidency
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
学英语单词
aaker
achtenberg
alkanet
Almunge
altitude power factor
an(a)erobic respiration
aplanatic points
Arethusa bulbosa
arm to
at the word of command
basket hoisting mechanism
blue brick
brainpan
Carolina bean
castgloss
catweazle
characteristic delay time
chinese silk plants
circular arc milling machines
clearing membership
coachees
colloidal agglomerate
deer fly,deerfly
deflection characteristic
design rules checking
diffusion flame burner
dutchiest
earthy breccia
edit pattern operator
elbow balance
fascs
Follett
forward euler method
French, Sir John Denton Pinkstone
frisons
Gorontalo, Tk.
hamidullah
hay rack
homotharicrine
horserider
ideal velocity
index of characteristic
infrared multiphoton absorption spectrum
interior type
jaculator
Kirchhoff's diffraction
koco
laminated pole
licensing to administer import restriction
lift control
limit of flammability
local signal
make way
malodorously
manorville
Mansholt Plan
melissaeus
minion
mobility gap
Mogok
mouth-organ
munitioner
nehep
nongremial
Osirite
oxine copper
patrol telephone
perineural fibroblastoma
phosphorous acid
plasma arc weld
precedence rule
product improvement
prompt date
prostateria
pseudopolydora reticulata
pulverulent material
regulation of highway transport industry
renewed fault
retail unit
rosehips
Ruifang Township
scalariform thickening
schoenflies symbols
Seljestadjuvet
seyni
simplot
sither
sky parking
slow nova
socialization agency
stand of sapling
standard potential transformer
tilting structure
tollgate
trevelez
tung-oil trees
turbulent blood flow
unstoic
validness
vibration pollution
water-proof motor
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