时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(五)月


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This is AP News Minute.


In a footnote in President Donald Trump's annual financial disclosure report, he says he reimbursed 1 personal attorney Michael Cohen for as much as 250,000 dollars last year. No mention was made of 130,000 dollar payment to porn star Stormy Daniels as hush 2 money for an alleged 3 affair.


Thousands of teachers gathered in North Carolina's capital to demand better pay and more resources for public schools. Teachers from around the state wore red and marched to the capital building.


In the West Bank, Palestinians threw stones at Israeli soldiers who shot tear gas at them near a checkpoint. The clashes took place after days of protest as Palestinians marked the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, a reference to the uprooting 4 of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were expelled during the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation.


Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano continued to cause havoc 5, as authorities reported that ash plume 6 from within the summit crater 7 has risen as high as 12,000 feet above sea level. Ash has been wafting 8 continuously from a vent 9 in the crater reported as far as 18 miles away.


Noreen Nasir, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.



1 reimbursed
v.偿还,付还( reimburse的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Any out-of-pocket expenses incurred on the firm's business will be reimbursed. 由公司业务产生的开销都可以报销。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Employees are reimbursed for any legal fees incurred when they relocate. 员工调往异地工作时,他们可以报销由此产生的所有法律服务费用。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 hush
int.嘘,别出声;n.沉默,静寂;v.使安静
  • A hush fell over the onlookers.旁观者们突然静了下来。
  • Do hush up the scandal!不要把这丑事声张出去!
3 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
4 uprooting
n.倒根,挖除伐根v.把(某物)连根拔起( uproot的现在分词 );根除;赶走;把…赶出家园
  • He is hard at work uprooting wild grass in the field. 他正在田里辛苦地芟夷呢。 来自互联网
  • A storm raged through the village, uprooting trees and flattening crops. 暴风雨袭击了村庄,拔起了树木,吹倒了庄稼。 来自互联网
5 havoc
n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。
6 plume
n.羽毛;v.整理羽毛,骚首弄姿,用羽毛装饰
  • Her hat was adorned with a plume.她帽子上饰着羽毛。
  • He does not plume himself on these achievements.他并不因这些成就而自夸。
7 crater
n.火山口,弹坑
  • With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve-suvius.用望远镜你能看到巨大的维苏威火山口。
  • They came to the lip of a dead crater.他们来到了一个死火山口。
8 wafting
v.吹送,飘送,(使)浮动( waft的现在分词 )
  • But that gentle fragrance was clearly wafting from the window. 但那股淡淡的香气,却分明是从母亲的窗户溢出的。 来自互联网
  • The picture-like XueGuo, wafting dense flavor of Japan, gives us a kind of artistic enjoyment. 画一般的雪国,飘溢着浓郁的日本风情,给人以美的享受。 来自互联网
9 vent
n.通风口,排放口;开衩;vt.表达,发泄
  • He gave vent to his anger by swearing loudly.他高声咒骂以发泄他的愤怒。
  • When the vent became plugged,the engine would stop.当通风口被堵塞时,发动机就会停转。
学英语单词
abuna
ache for
amount of vote
bedotiid
beefsteak morel
Birger Magnusson
boat camber
border leicester wool
bragget
brightpoint
bulk charge
Cai Be
carhouses
carpark
Chandvad
CHARC
coccidiodin
competitive force
copper iron
cracklike aperture
crown-rump length
cruciate bristle
defederate
digital translator
disposability
distler
diving wave
doorwards
Ehretia dunniana
Einstein-Fowler equation
extraordinary refractive index
extraquranic
field-grown soybean
four-component spinor
frontal drive
Gary, Elbert Henry
Glanegg
hall pass
harijans
haulage company
heating service
hepatitis interstitialis chronica
hydraulic fluid
hydraulic-slip loss
ice-marginal stream
in-lamb
kuibyshev (kuybyshev)
leontideus rosalia
linkage typology analysis
local enterprises
logarithmic voltage quantizer
low complexity coder
mands
manually-operated gate
Mardi gras
mikardo
Moon geology
mosaic block
multiple-wound armature
Nessler cylinder
Neustadt an der Weinstraβe
nonantibiotics
normalized transfer function
order anguilliformess
ordered module
organic profile
originarily
outside diameter of cable
palomines
parallelogram of vectors
partitioned semantic network
Phomopsis
powder caps
programme continuity
radical exponent
radio sounding
red - eyed vireo
residencies
retroactively
right of personal liberty
rossbach
sagittarids
salmony
sanitary code
scouring bit
screen editing
small-end diameter
stilleite
sunset.com
systemic progressive sclerosis
taking in water
tear one's hair out
tenderisers
textualisms
the twentieth century
trade charge
vat pink
venereal urethritis
vertical bomb
vitreous silica fiber for textile use
whittingstall
working-hours method