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
abrogation
acephaly
all over
amphiroa brevianceps
anesthetize
antenna load impedance
arteriae alveolaris maxillaris posterior
autocycler
bacterial enteromycosis
barometric price eadership
Bell phenomenon
bird's-foot
bounty-hunters
brought up
Bruttium
center line of bit
Chalkidona
civil-liberties
ckm
coarse lode
coaxial cable carrier telephone system
cold shield shading
combination plan of profit sharing
content filtering
counted string
crescent cell anemia
cross prism
cunonia family
cyclical policy
dastardliest
data entry keyboard
datlong
De Morgan, William Frend
diabolify
dimercaptosuccinic acid
distal interphalangeal articulation
divisor string
electrical wiring diagram
expansion guide
faina
fire extinguishing with resistant agent
fluorocummingtonite
fore mentioned
front runners
Gogia
goods returned
harbor of refuge
hoist motor
intermediate caries
inverted direct act engine
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Kikuni
Kikuyu grass
labor coaches
Lampang
land presser
liquid film cooling
mandatory altitude (ma)
mcgear
mega-star
mesochil
midstroll
monopnictide
monoseaplane
NADH
ndur
Niska
node beam
non-trading partnership
nonpotable water
nucle-
parient
particle size of fume
Pedicularis inaequilobata
phenaline
Pluck Point
polyorganometallosiloxane
pyostacin
respiritualizing
round whitefish
saw arbor
ScreenTips
series resonance circuit
set functions
shsasrsdswsasrses-s
slope sinking
sternocleidomastold muscle
Stichopus
styf
synchro-mating punch
sysedits
t-see-me
thrappled
Tobagonian
ultrastrongly
underground storeroom
up travel stop
vacation abuse
Wi-Fi router
Wolfe graft,Krause-Wolfe graft
yaegers