时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(三)月


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This is AP News Minute.


The Austin, Texas police chief says he considers a 25-minute cell-phone recording 1 from bombing suspect Mark Anthony Conditt to be a confession 2. Authorities removed homemade explosives from his residence.


Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for what he called a major breach 3 of trust. He outlined in a CNN interview steps that Facebook is taking to protect users after a firm's use of information improperly 4 obtained from fifty million Facebook users.


Congress could begin voting on Thursday on a new sweeping 5 1.3 trillion dollar budget. It substantially boosts military and domestic spending, but includes no deal on immigrant "dreamers".


The big northeast snowstorm dropped snow on New England on Wednesday night and early Thursday. The storm left more than a foot of snow in the areas of Pennsylvania, but less in the big east coast cities.


I'm Jackie Queen, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 recording
n.录音,记录
  • How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
2 confession
n.自白,供认,承认
  • Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
  • The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。
3 breach
n.违反,不履行;破裂;vt.冲破,攻破
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
4 improperly
不正确地,不适当地
  • Of course it was acting improperly. 这样做就是不对嘛!
  • He is trying to improperly influence a witness. 他在试图误导证人。
5 sweeping
adj.范围广大的,一扫无遗的
  • The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
  • Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗?
学英语单词
.pot
a slip of memory
aldehyde fuchsine stain
antidyskinetics
audioblog
bainite
be at someone's service
blefuscus
bruenjes
cajec
calendrical
calmette ophthalmic test
Camellia oleosa seeds
caviomorph
charcoal trap
Chrysophyllum L.
cinnamoyl
clichy-sous-bois
collectiontruck
continental margin-sea
data, local
dermatologic
dicyanogen
dinoturbation
dog-clutch
drosophila (lordiphosa) chaolipinga
elementary intern program
endosymbiosis theory
establishment law
eterno
fed upon
flow of funds accounts
forging press
format standard
friction circle analysis
full-scale reading
Garstang
genus aspidelapss
genus Bowiea
geologic province
harmonious body lines
Haseldorf
hexagonal bar
homogenicity
hyperplastic
increase in production
indirect heating surface
inloving
internal overhaul(ing)
interstitial configuration
irreversible thermal indicator
laser cutting machine tool
lens transmission factor
line-squall cloud
lithium niobate polarization
manganese(iv) oxide
Medicaid mills
new-to-me
nonhomogeneous terrain
nuclear planning system
nut tong
Nā'ālehu
opendoor
p-type silicon
paratoluenesulfonic acid ammonium salt
phenylethylene
planned maintenance
platometers
potassium metaperiodate
probable candidate
pure shear strain
rational index
relative forest soil
resistant form
rosa banksiae r.brown var.albo-plean rehder
rotary throttle
rotating torque of steering gear
sediment sample
sequential element
shelf basin
shrunk-on cylinder
Spabrücken
St-Just-Sauvage
statize
supplementary table
tailorbirds
the roman alphabet
three point assay
tickle to death
trifocal
ulcus molle serpignosum
unacquisitive
unappreciatively
us work
Villefranche-de-Lonchat
volt-milliampere-meter
vulgarizing
waxy flexibility
William Rose Benet
wireless section
Yesseniki
Zanocin