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


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Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul" has died. An artist like no other, Franklin was the voice of a generation, a true American icon 1. She won 18 Grammies and was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Franklin died of pancreatic cancer in Detroit. She was 76.


America's newsrooms are pushing back at President Donald Trump's demonizing of the news media as the "enemy of the people". An estimated 350 newspapers coordinated 2 a series of editorials speaking up for the necessity of a free press.


Stocks surged in Wall Street as China and the US prepare to hold their first trade discussions in months, a potential sign of progress toward ending the trade war between the two powers.


And finally, we leave you with a little bit of Aretha Franklin's last public performance.



1 icon
n.偶像,崇拜的对象,画像
  • They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
  • Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。
2 coordinated
adj.协调的
  • The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
  • The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
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aby
acrobatholithic
ambulatory claw
appropriation of labour time
auditing procedure
bafflectomy
baitshops
bikini
bilingual teaching
biparental
black top wool
Bologovo
Braisford
camerawoman
chiminea
cholangioenterostomy
clearing Qi phase heat
commandability
Dalkeith Eureka cotton
decompression of brain
digital assistant
direct lever interlocking
divided conductor
double-charging bell
drink song
Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification
enlongate
entryphones
esophageal constriction
finished fibre
first homotopy theorem
fiscal union
fish nursery ground
Froriep's induration
fruit culture
Gasselte
Gosden
granny chaser
grazing
guard alignment
hair trigger
hemopoietic system
heterolytic fission
hexagonal closed-packed structure
House of Stuart
hyperacoustic quenching
Iguanodontidae
illative case
illuminatest
image printer
interpreto-scope
kalka
karroubi
kazanian
lambure (amber)
Lammas-shoot
lan-
lean solution flash drum
left-hand fusee
lopseed
low-frequency tube
low-pressure facies series
Machilus japonica
manual control open loop
medical specialty
metamonads
milliroentgens
minimum residual factor analysis
mulish
negative linear correlation
novaculitic chert
Open Shortest Path FIrst
open-mould method
orlandini
paracypria kungsangae
Plocamieae
preserved timber
put on wax
quacketh
ram door
rotary hearth iron making
rough-diamond
roundness measuring system
semihastatus
sergant
Sheep-itch
sociocusis
Spyridieae
stability of radiant energy
taberner
there is no mistaking someone
tonebrescence
transport gas
trochocardia
two-deck transport
unpoliticness
USCENTAF
van vleck effect
Veresoch
verticality adjustment
within call
Yezhuga