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
air setting refractory cement
altitude indicator
an arbitrary decision
anguisht
anointest
antedated cheque
automated gas chromatographic analysis
automatic call device
benefit fund for employees
blocking protection
Bovey, River
calcium selenite
calibre ratio of combustion chamber
charles-gay-lussac's law
Charterers pay dues
Cicatralytics
co-ordinat
collision trajectory
common-conversion point gather
conformal symmetry
consectators
damp-mopping
DBcAMP-Ca
decapterus macrosoma
decelerating voltage
diagnostic ability
Dictyosiphoniales
digiti pedis
direct frequency modulation system
draw bar machine
elateth
energy absorption build-up factor
external quicksort
extrauterine pregnancies
fascinatress
fearing for
feasible direction algorithm
frontier settlement
frustums
full-length bath
fully dense
geobotanical method
hemianoptic
high alumina sand
Homalocephala
hot finished rod
hypochylia
incline constant
indisposing
injection nozzle
interpolation of beat
Jenkinsia
labrie
LiFePO4
maglus
marketing practices
measurement of pitch error
Meilhac
Mezhozërnyy
multi-handicappeds
nvs
Oeversee
operating hours counter
physiological speciation
plate tuning circuit
platform agnostic
Processus palstinus
product value chain
pseudomenstruation of newborn
psyllium
refrigerated cargo rate
revenue and expenditure
rising above
roller cup
rotating mirror streak camera
roughing end mill with waveform teeth
RS (reset key)
see sb's true colours
shimmy damper
smelting waste
sorrowe
spiral water-turbine
split beam pattern
stawyll
sturnia malabarica nemoricola
suprasegments
sword belt
teenicide
thief-taker
thiodinone
Thyrolar
timing-gear
TobraDex
total length over coupling faces
town squares
tropical fish
uniform hardening
user error procedure
voice answer device
Wid ukind
wound resistor
Yeosuman