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
adamek
Anurida
apogee tide
armature growler
asbestos product
assisors
behavin
betting shop
Bliznetsy
blush up to the temples
Bosnianness
Canton crane
cascade noise
cassations
celmonit
chavender
chick embryo air sac
chuck nut
clear buffer
combined transport of container
corporate vertical marketing system
counting mechanism of a meter
dargahs
dark-browns
Darnel's case
density-speed relationship
derivative deposits
determination of volume of whole woods
digitized sound
discharge load
Domjean
drawn part
eco-defence
electronic tablet
encomiastic, encomiastical
esquisse
exheredate
fiatula in ano
fig-leaves
genus Burmannia
give a lift
good habit
Gordon's elementary bodies
graphechon storage tube
group starter board
hard to reach
homohexameric
Horeb
hyperitremia
ibb
ittotational motion
job-security
junction block
kilometers of track operated
Kumbh Mela
leaf mass density
Lloydia delavayi
morbid dominant emotion
multiwheel
musculi fusiformis
nausley
Neurofort
observation stations
on the radio
org.
oscillating mine
perceived color
perfectious
plastic pipe
POSIX time
potential winding
punniness
red sprite
reliability growth test
routledges
sebiolith
semispinal muscle
sign-offs
silage spade
snored
Sphingomonadales
spring mattress
static transformator
station number
stem-clasping
sterigma (pl. sterigmata)
suture-probe
swingling tow
thallium(i) sulfite
tie-and-dye
torsional braid analysis apparatus
tubus respiratorius
universal machine
unquarried
Uttar Hārina
vitelline substance
WCD
whirling arm testing
wide blade
wu nien chi
Yodarma
zellerite