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
acceptable function
air-preheating temperature
Amazonian antshrike
amusingness
andre markoffs
Arcore
arrindell
association of variable
aurosan
autodrafter
bairnly
bank buildings
bench type spot-welder
black wood charcoal
braeheid
brake-band clutch
bucket excavator for downward scraping
budget practice
Buzha
Camphenal
carry one's heart on one's sleeve
CFSE
chai-wallahs
chivas regal
climatic atlas
coefficient domain
common thymes
convolver output
crista ntertrochanterica
crystal wafer
damage detection threshold
data carrier failure detector
dead finish
defamiliarising
deknight
digital whiteboard
double-suction ventilator
earth ellipsoid parameter
entity set model
foot-ups
Gaillardin
germ insecticide
gladys smiths
Guarnerius
high-temperature service
holosystolic
horlers
ice carapace
journal for axial load
jpic
lobophyllia flabelliformis
longitudinal righting moment
Mararaba
Martes americana
neurogliocyte
nithermost
non-trade goods
not to matter
numerical solution technique
omn.bih.
one-way nondeterministic nested stack automata
operating command
Oppenheim-Urbach disease
optical electrons
para-anilinesulfonic acid
pauish
permanent lining,secondary lining
plate printing
punch above
radio heater
Raznomoyka
reocclusions
root canal reamer
Sahih Muslim
shore birds
sight gag
simulated input condition
sizzly
spinoperipheral
storage restoration
subclass Branchiopoda
sunburn reaction
supercritical steam conditions
system mangler
the emancipation proclamation
the republic of india
time-bounds
tip beam
to take the floor
top-ropings
triple tongue
tugwithy
untemporary
unvoting
upper end of the schedular system
uretorostomosis
vagal crises
vine crop
Wasbüttel
workhour
yenisei-samoyeds