时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年5月


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Our first story this April 25th involves alleged 1 human trafficking. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as modern day slavery. It involves deceiving people, defrauding 2 them or forcing them into a type of labor 3 or prostitution.


The DHS says trafficking brings billions of dollars of yearly profit to people who illegally trade human lives. And according to the Global Slavery Index, some form of slavery traps more than 48 million, men, women and children, in 167 countries.


In Brazil, South America's largest and most populated country, slavery was officially abolished in 1888. But like in so many other countries, including the U.S., human trafficking continues in Brazil. In one area where people are taking advantage of is in agriculture. It accounts for more than 6 percent of the country's gross domestic product. More than 15 percent of its labor force.



1 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
2 defrauding
v.诈取,骗取( defraud的现在分词 )
  • Second is the actor regards defrauding of the wealth as object. 第二,行为人以骗取钱财为目的。 来自互联网
  • Therefore, DELL has the motive and economic purpose of intentionally defrauding the Chinese consumers. 因此,戴尔公司存在故意欺诈中国消费者的动机和经济目的。 来自互联网
3 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
学英语单词
.ofn
admissible space
architectural plan
artificial circulation
brightlier
bufencarb
calibration pulse
carcinomatous adenoma of kidney
channel-steel
Chigasaki
China-controlled company
co2 laser
Colonia Casa Blanca
concert/c
core rack
cubic-lattice cell
cyclic structure
daysprings
debris slope
Devil may care
distribution
double-horn loudspeaker
duck-billed cats
easterlins
electric signal characteristic measurement
encaving
epigastric pain
evanishment
extrapleural tboracoplasty
fatehabad (fatahabad)
fixed center distance
franchise distribution network
Fremont County
fumatories
genus parietarias
Give me five!
gouvernour
grant admission to
group-address message
hantbois strawberry
harbour-masters
heavy purchase
henschen
homogay
in a class by oneself
indiscriminate use of pesticide
IR remote control
janet reno
kanban
leveling bench
looasa lateritia gill
macroparameters
mallin
manned capsule
marooning party
marrus
mean-time-to-first failure
Metchnikov
Mindat
Mlicrococcus viticulosus
mumpy
nail holding ability
omphalosite
on a port to port basis
out-in-the-open
overloading pulse
persa
plant residue of peat
Podgornaya
pointer needle
process scrap
puffed bar
quench gas
quentum mechanics
RAYDAC
reentrant winding
rhodate
ride dirty
Rumex chalepensis
salacetos
Scutellaria shweliensis
sewing baskets
shengs
simultaneous solvability
sintering of polymetallic systems
skin decarburization
soil liquifation
speech art
spottiswoods
streaming suspension
suanazolo
super-supercomputer
supernational corporation
support design
swan neck tube
temorites spinifera
test letter
the-counter
wall dunnage
well pressure
whisker jack
wool shoddy