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
Aburi
acouchies
advance party
ancient stream channel
Anyksciai
approach circuit
artificial celestial body
asialo-orosomucoid
audit of non-operating expenses
back wire
balanced reaction rudder
bar-crawl
centrifugal cast pipe
cheir-, cheiro-
Chemehuevi Indian Reservation
closing drum
coal-tar hydrocarbon
coastal zone resources
compiler call
condition of temperature
content analysis
convergent nozzle
copper phthalocyanine
corncrib
counterprofile
cryptostomata
Cynobal
Dachangshu
deep-sea fishery
dental clinic
dental excavator
diaphragm-spot
do ... out of
ecoanarchists
electrical heating
elsewise
exponential distributions
ferrischermakite
functional address indicator
gamakas
Gandāb
general instructions
genus argonautas
graphics processing unit
gymnothorax minor
hand cleaning door
hedger
high-alumina clay
horological machine
hypophyseal-duct tumor
ignition magneto
inter-subjectivities
isocytosis
J. S. T.
Komnina
labo(u)r complication
light spot recorder
loop mode
low lift
Mach hold
master mariners
meal tickets
microsporon minutissimum
miroirs
misinformations
moderate size earthquake
monoisotope
nitryl
number of axles braked
party pastie
Patagon
polarimetric interference
poonahlite
pre-exceptional
preroll shift
printaniers
pulley insert
Raniganj
rules governing the inspection of export and import commodities
samba (brazil)
sea-gull murmur
Security Certificate
seriate poikilitic texture
serous cavity
shipwright's working
skintest
spange
spend management
stilbene dyes
swing-arm mechanical hand
temperature control system
thiola
threating
thrust augmentation
toepicks
tritiums
tubular turbine
turned in
ushuaia
VWG
weight series
xylylene alcohol