时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(六)月


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This is AP News Minute.


A 28-year-old candidate who has never held public office stunned 1 the democratic party by beating one of its house leaders. Alexandia Ocasio Cortez defeated Congressman 2 Joe Crowley of New York, once thought of as a possible future House speaker.


South Carolina Republican Governor Henry McMaster won his primary runoff after getting an endorsement 3 from President Trump 4. And former presidential candidate Mitt 5 Romney won the republican primary for Utah's Senate seat.


A federal judge has ordered immigration authorities to reunite separated families within thirty days. The ruling follows a lawsuit 6 from the American Civil Liberties Union.


And a Japanese space probe has arrived at an asteroid 7 about 170 million miles from Earth. The plan is for the probe to blast a hole in the asteroid, collect samples and bring them back to Earth.


Matt Small, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 stunned
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
2 endorsement
n.背书;赞成,认可,担保;签(注),批注
  • We are happy to give the product our full endorsement.我们很高兴给予该产品完全的认可。
  • His presidential campaign won endorsement from several celebrities.他参加总统竞选得到一些社会名流的支持。
3 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。
4 mitt
n.棒球手套,拳击手套,无指手套;vt.铐住,握手
  • I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日,我送给他一只棒球手套。
  • Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
5 lawsuit
n.诉讼,控诉
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
6 asteroid
n.小行星;海盘车(动物)
  • Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。
  • It's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into Earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小,但这样的危险还是存在的。
学英语单词
agitator mixer
allogenetic graft
Appalachian English
artificial of woods
auto answering machine
be soppy about
befound
Blackduck
British South Africa Company
Canoona
capacity for legal transactions
capstan oscillator
cholesteric material
common cause
conventional V-belt
cuts of lamb
deathmatch
decomposition of forces
deconcocts
dedur
discretionary income
dolichotrichus
double nursing
drained shear characteristic
Ej Jemaa
empurples
entodermal cavity
epithelioma cuniculaturn
eructs
exempted video work
expanded-scale meter
farepayers
First Lateran Council
fixed-interest security
Fleetsat
flexible segment
for shank
garnetts
gashurov
gastrointestinal type
HAFP
Harwell synchrotron
historical heritage
huene
hypering
infantilism of uterus
insulation-enclosed switchgear
irne
ironmaking
knocks out
ligamenta ceratocricoidea lateralia
limited edition
Limón, R.
load booster
lodge with
lumbees
macheer
mass-extinction
mechanical slot
micro-cycle
multiple access path
muscadelles
naval bronze
neo-arthrosis
nitratine deposit
occulting light (occ)
oil of thyme
old wreck
on one's plate
package reliability
penary
porites horizontalata
prpc
pull-piece
pureed
qaddafis
radial grinding
receptaculum Pecqueti
room for
rubidium iron alum
satin derivative
self-centring chuck
semicapitalist
sighting point
single fillet welded T joint
snapped header
standard definition
statutory construction
stoneware pump
strategic demolition
structural group
synmetal
theodolitic survey
tinkle-tankle
to drop a bomb
univels
unsewn binding
Veldegem
viscida
well inch
whole egg liquid
work-flow