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
4-polytopes
abaci
am-dram
amygdaloidal fillings
anterior spinothalamic tract
atomic layer epitaxial growth
authentic mode
autoencode
avulsion of supraorbital nerve
basic immunology
bitchiers
Braies, L.di
buzzworthy
calliopses
camera cares
cattle-truck
cell-derived
Chappell Is.
chloraminated
christianisations
cogenesis
concepcion de buenos aires
convexities
cooperativity
crane bridge
cussen
customary deduction
diffuse sky radiaiton
DOD, DoD
Dourou
drat it all!
drum gear
earmark surplus
eaven
embracing grammar
eulimnetic
flow-nozzle metre
fringe phase
full-wave rectification
garbage-cans
genus Pholis
Gerhard Gerhards
ghost ramp
gingerliness
harad
Hassid
Hormuz, Str.of
horticultural science
hypochlorite generator
Islamopologist
Italian pottery
jendayi
jensenite
know goods
Kudoyama
land-based prototype
limulus
locked-rotor impedance characteristic
median sacral artery
melocoton
motorcycle gloves
Mozhayskiy Rayon
multi-swift card
Naiadaceae
nondiscriminatory education
oblique visual range
one-dollar
order Aepyorniformes
Paredrite
patent mark
polishing liquid
postfuneral
probyn
quarter of a ship
red body
red-and-white-striped
remote auto
rhodie
rifle stand
rivale
rusticators
self-parking wiper
semi-closed shop
sensitivity of soil
signorias
single fall and skid method
sink estate
slash prices
southwesterlies
Sporolactobacillus
subject of acupuncture and moxibustion technique
successively
take communion
Tanella
Tanintharyi River
theory of customs unions
thrombocytosis
two-beddeds
us pep
wealthier
wobbler action
woodfordite