时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2018(八)月


英语课

 


This is AP News Minute.


Hurricane Lane dropped almost two feet of rain on Hawaii's Big Island in just about a day. The big, slow-moving category 3 hurricane is expected to move close to or directly over parts of Hawaii's main islands.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared in a statement that the Justice Department will not be influenced by politics. This came after President Trump 1 criticized Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation 2.


Agents say they have found a highly sophisticated drug smuggling 3 tunnel that runs under the US-Mexico border. It surfaces beneath an abandoned Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Arizona.


And Republican Congressman 4 Duncan Hunter of California and his wife pleaded not guilty in federal court. They are accused of illegally using his campaign account for personal expenses.



1 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。
2 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
3 smuggling
n.走私
  • Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
  • The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
4 Congressman
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。
学英语单词
accident spot
anklebone
attributable share value
average price
ballistical curve
biased upward
Bisuc
Blackfriars Theatre
calculated carbon aromaticity index
canales spinalis
cancellation notice
Carsac-Aillac
Chasseral
clo.
Conradson carbon apparatus
cross-discipline
dual storage
electrooptical system
Elliott treatment
erosion pit
expect too much of
fanweeds
fluming water
frozen specific heat
gemma
glycerophosphocholines
glyphography
group reagent
hand-won face
hesitators
Hi-Def
high speed centerless grinding machine
I-n-Touft
ignorable
indexed data descriptor
invitation for subscription
irmgard
Jegindφ
joint Budin's
Kar.
keel bursitis
labelled atoms (tagged atoms)
liberde
marshallist
mechanics of loose media
meta-toluidine
Miani
Microkernels
microsclerotial
milk-walk
Minigwal, L.
mononymic
moving electron
mucormycotic disease
Neighbornode
neoherculine
nephrectomize
night-spell
Niiza
nonidempotent
nonstriker
notice to airmen
optical encoders
out-of-hand
Parafossarulus striatulus
patternization
PC-MAG
petroleum economics
physical biochemistry
pignose
pilwo
poke fn at
polymer solid electrolyte
porodic
post-office
propulsion efficiency
pseudozygadenine
ramalic acid
rcpt
reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer
redige
rociclovir
screw center height
Shchuger
singlings
slag pancake
spaws
stock classes
storing of information
strap seam
supergroup reference pilot
synthesionyia nudiseta
tamanka tagala
Tan Chau
turned sorts
unbooklearned
Urmal R.
velocity-modulated valve
wands
with starting eyes
wristbands
zinc oxide (zinc white)