美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-11-08
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2014(十一)月
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1. Voting is underway across the US as Republicans make one last push for at least 6 new Senate seats while Democrats 1 try and hold on their Senate majority. The mid-term election has been casted as a referendum on President Barack Obama.
2. Family members are pleading for the safe return of a woman. Philadelphia police say she was abducted 2 late Monday night. Surveillance video appears to show a man rushing to 22-year-old Carlesha Freeland-Gaither toward a parked car. Authorities say her bank card was later used about 75 miles away in Maryland.
3. Thousands of Iranians chanted “Down with America” at a major anti-US rally in the Iran capital. The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran by militant 3 students. Fifty two Americans were held hostages for 441 days.
4. And Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson avoided jail time with a plea agreement in his child-abuse case. Peterson was indicted 4 on a felony charge in September for using a wooden switch to discipline his son.
n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展
- Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
- The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。
adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。