时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2017(十)月


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This is AP News Minute.


Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been expelled from the Motion Picture Academy after the board met in emergency session. The move follows blockbuster reports by the New York Times and the New Yorker, revealing sexual harassment 1 and rape 2 allegations against Weinstein that go back decades.


Freed hostage Joshua Boyle and his family returned home to Canada early Saturday after five years of captivity 3 at the hands of Haqqani extremists in Afghanistan. In this video put out by the Pakistani military, Boyle praised the security forces who rescued them. He also told reporters his captors raped 4 his wife and killed one of his children.


Strong winds fanned wildfires in California's wine country again Saturday, forcing hundreds of additional residents to evacuate 5 their homes. The fires that began last Sunday have claimed close to three dozen lives and destroyed at least 5700 homes and businesses.


Take a look at this! A soccer team in Berlin giving a nod to social struggles in the US by taking a knee before their match. The starting line-up showed their support for the NFL protest by taking a knee on the field, while the coaching staff and others did the same thing on the sidelines.


Ned Barker, Associated Press with AP News Minute.



1 harassment
n.骚扰,扰乱,烦恼,烦乱
  • She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
  • The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。
2 rape
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
3 captivity
n.囚禁;被俘;束缚
  • A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
  • He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。
4 raped
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 );强奸
  • A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
  • We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致,不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句
5 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
学英语单词
amerantrone
anoestrum
Bacillus allanyoides
bespring
bike racks
buceross
callathumps
center position of lateral malleolus
chainliker
Chinese-character display
chloroheptane
chocolate chips
Churk
circination
classical diffusion
common furniture beetle
conical spray nozzle
constant voltage source
continuous pickling
conventional enclosed container
cryptovirological
cut sb out
cuttah
cyclotol
decocoon
delivery of oxygen
dexterity of action
direct-fired generator
dizzyness
dorals
dried currant
dunlopillo
duplex fitting
efficiency by indirect calculation
emergency cable
experiment packet
eye span
faghots
gledes
heterotransplantations
home service
index in kind
internal tapered hole
invisible transaction
ion beam cleaning
Jura-Triassic
knit coat
legal way
Lewis, Matthew Gregory
livelinesses
lluminalion
longicatenamycin
main control chain
masterstroke
maximal expiratory rate of flow
model of cognition
Mogoi
monogonal
moonflight
mormolukee
nedds
new science of management decision
normally distributed disturbance
NREH
office worker
on the schnozzle
partial aplasia of brain
party
peptide deformylase
piecewise holomorphic
pizza box server
plant heat rate
poleax, poleaxe
pressure-volume coordinates
prolificating
pyxine copelandii
Q boat
R galaxy
rack and panel construction
re-activations
reference star
retinoin
roll lift
rusticating
satiri
serumtherapy
spread-eagleds
step number
stitch-bonded fabric
strengell
streptoneurous
submarine receiving set
suffarraneous
traceless crime
triply-discharging
uk ti
Urdangarin
warrant policy
welches
zero-base planning
zinc polycarboxylate cement
Zygophyceae