时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been expelled from the Motion Picture Academy after the board met in emergency session. The move follows blockbuster reports by the New York Times and the New Yorker, revealing sexual harassment 1 and rape 2 allegations against Weinstein that go back decades.


Freed hostage Joshua Boyle and his family returned home to Canada early Saturday after five years of captivity 3 at the hands of Haqqani extremists in Afghanistan. In this video put out by the Pakistani military, Boyle praised the security forces who rescued them. He also told reporters his captors raped 4 his wife and killed one of his children.


Strong winds fanned wildfires in California's wine country again Saturday, forcing hundreds of additional residents to evacuate 5 their homes. The fires that began last Sunday have claimed close to three dozen lives and destroyed at least 5700 homes and businesses.


Take a look at this! A soccer team in Berlin giving a nod to social struggles in the US by taking a knee before their match. The starting line-up showed their support for the NFL protest by taking a knee on the field, while the coaching staff and others did the same thing on the sidelines.


Ned Barker, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 harassment
n.骚扰,扰乱,烦恼,烦乱
  • She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
  • The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。
2 rape
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
3 captivity
n.囚禁;被俘;束缚
  • A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
  • He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。
4 raped
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 );强奸
  • A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
  • We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致,不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句
5 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
学英语单词
Abū 'Ushar, Jab.
adolescaria
airx
ancillary reveiver
antieverything
aspirated electrical capacitor
automation control
avm
axes
battle out
bormanis
botchiest
Bratan
built - in flexibility
cef-
chemical water
coagulase butter
coinduced module
covite
crackajack
cymbidium niveomarginatum mak.
diagnostic logic simulator
dial telegraph
Digitaria cruciata
dioxy-salicylic acid
discharge of sedimentation by blasting
Ductus lobi caudati dexter
econazis
edir
electrical brake of hydrogenerator
engine-room ladder
Eriachne
estrogen-only
Ethiop
experto crede
FITSAF
Follow-Up Action
forward file recovery
globalist
Guanghan
holloware
homo politicus
hot-rodder
hyperexuberance
identical-twin
immunofluorescence technique
in terror of
Indigofera pendula
indoor servant
inhomogeneous plastic flow
instrument rolling bearing
interest sensitive liabilities
intrapacket
irrigation-warping soil
isobolographic
Jumada I
ketonic form
lagidze
leech disease
leveled out
linear complex
macro scopic state
metal oxide semiconductor (mos)
multiprocessor state
myco-diesel
nchems
NEXAFS
noninstances
order eurotialess
ornithomimid
out-of-focus image
oxygen exchange reaction
parostemenine
phewas
pin-up board
postmortem lividity
pressure variation value
print services facility/vm
red shade
Rhabdosphaera
right-inveriant
scapular region
scratch start
self-complementing
shore-based direction-finding system
sodium ethoxide
sort statement
spectral brightness
stainless steel nylon ring square hinge
Star of India
stauncher
stdtitle
tank car
Timbalier Bay
traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations
tube steaks
unwassailing
VAPO
wedge lock
wheare
wivern
zahirs