时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2016年12月


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We're starting on a report on an attack at Ohio State University. A U.S. government official says an 18-year-old man of Somali descent targeted a group of people on campus yesterday morning. He first ran the car into some pedestrians 1 and then used a knife to attack those nearby. At least nine people were hospitalized, including one who was in critical condition last night.


University police say they had an officer at the scene in less than a minute and then he shot and killed the attacker.


U.S. officials say the suspect was a student at the school and a legal permanent resident. They don't know yet what his motive 2 was, but the Columbus, Ohio, police chief says they have to consider terrorism as a possibility.


At the time of the attack, students had just returned to class from the Thanksgiving break.


Yesterday, when we told you about potential vote recount in several U.S. states, we mentioned that a presidential election winner in Michigan hadn't been projected yet. The state was still too close to call. But that changed yesterday afternoon when Michigan officials said President-elect Donald Trump 3 won the state's 16 electoral votes. That brings Mr. Trump's electoral vote total to 306. His challenger, Democratic nominee 4 Hillary Clinton had 232.


The president-elect is moving forward on shaping his cabinet. He intends to nominate Jeff Sessions, a U.S. senator from Alabama, for attorney general, the position that heads up the U.S. Justice Department. Mike Pompeo, a U.S. representative from Kansas, is Mr. Trump's choice for director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina has been named as America's ambassador to the United Nations, and businesswoman, philanthropist and school choice activist 5 Betsy DeVos would become the next U.S. education secretary.


These are all cabinet or cabinet level positions. So, while President-elect Trump wants these people for the jobs, the Constitution requires to get advice and consent from the U.S. Senate to confirm them. The cabinet advises the president on government policy and then carries that out at home and abroad.



1 pedestrians
n.步行者( pedestrian的名词复数 )
  • Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement. 几个行人在结冰的人行道上滑倒了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Pedestrians keep to the sidewalk [footpath]! 行人走便道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 motive
n.动机,目的;adv.发动的,运动的
  • The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
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 nominee
n.被提名者;被任命者;被推荐者
  • His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
  • Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。
5 activist
n.活动分子,积极分子
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
学英语单词
A&C (arithmetic and controls)
achi baba
Amur grape vine
antisocial personality
autoran
aventurin(e)
badminton racquets
boom defence
cambrasine
clapper rod
coccygeal bone
code
Comorin
Cryptochilus sanguineus
dark plaster
dehybridization
delta deposits
dicaryolization
dioctyl-medoforte
diyala
Edmer
examination clerk
family Phyllostomidae
felicidad
fighting talk
first normal stress coefficient
fixed gain multi-variable excitation control
floppy disk cartridge
follow close upon the heels of
forms of government
genus funduluss
genus seriphuss
gflops
gianpaolo
glandulae olfactoriae
HEAE
Himantopus
in the grease
kindall
Kudligi
low-keyness
meant
megaladapid
metamorphic zone
mooty
naked oats flour
nehalem
non-linear polymer
notice of damage
one hand snatch with left arm
paeonia japonica miyabe et takeda
parakeets
Paschim Bārigaon
patriot-news
Pedolatum
petrichthium
phenarsazinines
pingpong tables
pinnate joint
planing boat
pneumotoxic respiration
polyneices
pre-pump
primiorach
reserve receiver
retroperistaltic
reversed micelle-enhanced fluorimetry
Risk-Free Return
sanitized
SCLA
semiempirical molecular orbital method
side outlet
skin problems
socially produced
soyez
spring casing
stationary-
stato
STCA
strong demand
sub cast
sunlight constant
synonym-compound
table handing
take sb's name in vain
teirce
Tenochcan
third market
TKDP
to arouse sb from sleep
toilet-roll
Tongch'ang-ri
tovarishes
truth in broadcasting act of 2005
turbine driven feedwater pump
unfructifying
unpassed
V-crimp asbestos-cement sheet
vanderburg
ward leonard drive
what about