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
abutting ends
aeronautic(al) data
Alekano
Alyxia yunkuniana
Amphistoma conicum
angold
artifical design science
asomus
asquish
attoampere
balance of heat
band sharpening
battell
bearing tube
Bristacin
CAM-AQI
chain wrenches
chamaelirin
chirrupings
cinerary casket
clickas
coactualization
compressibility of information
console typewriter
control methods
costiform
Cricoesophageal
crime-lab
cyberathletes
definition file
delta modulation technique
DOCMaker
dredge control console
driftpin
drilaster flavipennis
ear marking
ear-phone
electron-beam parametric amplifier
engine endurance test
environmental laboratory
esquimaux
etching device
ethiomic acid
eutectoid transformation
exel
Fuzitine
gas bearing
Goytkhskiy, Pereval
gratins
hard fibroma
headachey
hierarchically
high-energy spallation
HTTP streaming
i-rinen
ibm-supplied compatibility font
IL-15
impassibly
introrsum
isoelectronic group
laberynth
Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge
lily-pad ice
limited signal
match hook
mercedeses
mercury(ii) thiocyanate
minimum diameter of flow path
myeloarchitect
Myers' method
negative acknowledge
net force
ocular cone
odinga
odonto-coronal prosthesis
pancreatogastroanastomosis
paper process
payment notice
period hours
phauda similis
phlebotomise
photoelectric sender
provide people with door-to-door service
regressing
reserve feed tank
rest-pocket
rezones
Salix kongbanica
sealing block
smotherers
sub-sea
substandardly
super-popular
the long robe
theowdom
thermal radiation field
tundra
two stage compressor
umbala
whylyst
women's center