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
actron
agricultural int.egration
artesian-flow area
audible signal panel
audit of stores in outside processing
Bergelmir
cerebellar retractor
chiropodists
chorus of mixed voices
cloud testing
collective nouns
conducting direction
consistent lubricant
consumer-oriented language
container vessel service
cumulative damage effect
decompounds
dedicated control system
dingeys
do as one likes
endocervical scraping smear
equal roots
ewell
facies nasalis (lamin? maxillaris)
ferringhi
fingernail impression
foreign currency bill receivable
fort-de-france
fuel-binder
general merchandise wholesaler
Gentile, Giovanni
genus Camassia
genus Crocodylus
get off lightly
get the heave-ho
glaging
glistring
hard area
human behavioristics
hydr(o)-
Ilmen, Lake
in mortal fear
induction melt
inside market
interest sb in sth
issy-les-moulineaux (issy)
Kirlian photograph
kokance
lateral dimension
little to choose between
log-on and log-off
make headway
maltol
meropias
metathoracic somite
misphasing
multitrack magnetic system
negative financial leverage
non-ism
Obamacrat
oleo fork
open to the public
ostrow
parabiosis
pay someone back in his own coin
personal unconscious
Perston
re-deployments
rocking pier
roller-blading
santonicas
sasps
Seget
semmits
send request circuit
shoaled
shock component
sole proprietor
somato-axonic synapse
stirrup-shaped
straits
super check
synomones
tails-in
take a child out of the gutter
thin-shelled tubular structure
tinfoilhattery
touch corpuscles
trade-oriented
triethyl-n-amyltin
triphones
triplant
tubewelding mill
unadvisable
unpractic
ureteropyelostomy
warness
wart-biter
water buffalo horn
water-sports
west indian mahogany