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
A is meant for B
activity content
affecting commerce
air return
aluminium rhodanide
aspartic acid (Asp)
autotrophic plant
Balloon Help
below-average
berth safety strap
bobbin brake
broadcasting followed disking
Brody knob
calaba
cashew(nut)
charity event
coal as received
cobble-stone tongue
completion regular measure
conduction-cooled package
connecting-rod
cost underruns
dalbergia polyadelpha prain
dash sb's spirits
deflector coil plate
dehesa de guadix
dialectics
digital filtering technique
dilution assay method
down flow clean room
dyskinesia uterine
eidee
electrical resonator
eligible young man
embryo sac haustorium
error formula
extensional fault
external cathode counter tube
farm-to-table
film noir
free drawing
furrowed wing case
gastroenteric
ghijak
hashish oil
hattala
hot chamber die casting
industrial cycle
inertia starter
Karaksar
limericks
littl
logatome
magnnetic difference of potential
mast lift truck
melaniferous phagocyte
model completion
mold assembly
nitroprusside-Na
nonrecognition
oakleaves
optic cable
outlined fone
Pinophytina
platinum group element
porcelain eye
psychoda formosensis
qualification shares
quarter sawed
reciprocal matrix
rotator, phase
Schizogregarina
sea barge transportation ship
semen boitae
Sereda
short time thermal rating
sidest
signal period
single curve tooth
specialty store
standard reference material(SRM)
stew in one's own juice
store access controller
substratospheric flight
T and O map
tending of wood
teres major
thermal decomposition
thoracography
threefold axis
topeto
Totril
trace contaminant
treses
trimming shears
vhpb
watertight cable gland
white phosphorous
win win
York Pt.
zealot