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
-crafted
Acanthephippium striatum
active crystalline material
aeluropsis
alabre
aluminates
architectonic
back surface reflection and back surface field solar cell
balance formward
bearing support fastener
Borgustanskaya
building-code
Bureyskiy Rayon
capstan amplifier
catproof
church pk.
collecting company
controllable source
cresorcin
demonstration engine
depreciation job method
derogatoriness
directories
displastic
dissembling
dodger
doomage
equalization of burden
equip
Escherichia neapolitanana
face curtain
federalise
Fissura orbitalis inferior
footrill
frequency record
Gamana, R.
gargareon
Gentiana cristata
geras
graph information retrieval language
grospiron
honorary degrees
ignore absolute
index arm
infantees
intrinsic rate of increase
Iowa Park
jahnsite- (camnmg)
jerk jobs
Johnson grasses
ju
Kolola Springs
lap-only
lenite
low pressure evaporator
LTPS LCD
magnetic printing ink
man's
mean day flow
narrow guide
narrow-band
nervi frontalis
noncelebrations
O/M ratio (oxygen to metal ratio)
odcase
oleandra undulata (willd) ching
or model
orangiest
oxynitriles
perfumeries
pexiganan
pisanianura breviaxe
pitches
precontour
prezygapophyses
Primula fistulosa
provisions lift
prunus salicina var.pubipes bailey
pum grasp
Pyracantha fortuneana
radices sophorae subprostratae
raiman
red maidss
reichsmarschalls
reproduction cost
roentgenising
roll boiling
sadlier
shaping property
shit bird
shotgun cloning
starch lump
steam-atomizing burner
suspected variable
symeons
thunder cloud
tile culvert
turpinia pomifera dc.
user bases
Vauban's fortification pictures
Wenlock R.
zero polynomial