美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-05-03
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2014(五)月
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1. Pro-Russia insurgents 1 freed one of the 8 European military observers being held prison in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, citing medical reasons. Earlier in the day, all eight appeared in public in the first time under armed guard giving assurances they weren’t being mistreated.
2. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed aside comments made by Palestinian President Mohammed Abbas in which he called the holocaust 2 the most heinous 3 crime of model history. Netanyahu says Abbas can’t say the holocaust was terrible. But at the same time embrace those who deny the holocaust and seek to destroy the Jewish people.
3. This comes as Israel began its annual holocaust memorial day with the nation’s leaders attending a solemn ceremony. 6-million Jewish were killed during the holocaust wiping out a third of the world’s Jewish population.
4. And Pope Francis has elevated two of his predecessors 4 to Sainthood. John, the 23rd, and John Paul, the 2nd, were declared Saints in a historical Vatican ceremony on Sunday.
n.起义，暴动，造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
- The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
n.大破坏；大屠杀
- The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
- Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
adj.可憎的，十恶不赦的
- They admitted to the most heinous crimes.他们承认了极其恶劣的罪行。
- I do not want to meet that heinous person.我不想见那个十恶不赦的人。
n.前任( predecessor的名词复数 )；前辈；（被取代的）原有事物；前身
- The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Will new plan be any more acceptable than its predecessors? 新计划比原先的计划更能令人满意吗？ 来自《简明英汉词典》