美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-18
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2014(八)月
英语课
1. The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson experienced another night of unrest, with some people throwing Molotov cocktail 1 and other objects and police unleashing 2 tear gas and smoke bombs.
2. United Nations has announced its highest level of emergency for the humanitarian 3 crisis in Iraq. Islamic militants 4 have overrun much of the country’s north and west, and have driven out hundreds of thousands from their home.
3. 5 day extension of a Gaza truce 5 appears to be holding despite a rocky start. It’s the longest ceasefire yet since the war broke out last month in the Gaza Strip. Violence briefly 6 spiked 7 as the extension of the truce announced shortly before midnight on Wednesday.
4. Opening a 5 day visit to South Korea, Pope Francis has called for a new effort to forge peace on the war-divided Korean Peninsula, and for both sides to avoid fruitless criticism and shows of force.
n.鸡尾酒；餐前开胃小吃；混合物
- We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
- At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上，人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。
v.把（感情、力量等）释放出来，发泄( unleash的现在分词 )
- Company logos: making people's life better by unleashing Cummins power. 公司理念：以康明斯动力建设更美好的生活！ 来自互联网
- Sooner or later the dam will burst, unleashing catastrophic destruction. 否则堤坝将崩溃，酿成灾难。 来自互联网
n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者
- She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
- The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
n.休战，(争执，烦恼等的)缓和；v.以停战结束
- The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
- She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
adv.简单地，简短地
- I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
- He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。