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
above-deck
acetylated lanolin
advantium
afterbangs
air bed
ajeyas
alamed
american association of scientific workers
angle beam
animal and plant health inspection and quarantine statistics
anti-dazzle pedal
be fully convinced
betombled
blight trial
bottom setting
brake lever guide
candy cane
canned responses
canonizations
cargo handling appliance
Catarrhina
cerebral apophysis
cesium ferric sulfate
chukucythere fengtaoi
clitorimegaly
colorant feeder
colourplexer
combinatorial
conditional locking
cork flour
corpora callosa
correher
crystal floating
depressed polynomial
detachable cord
development specification
digastric lobe
economic life cycle
ex warrant
Filaria hominis oris
flexible carrier
Fontechevade man
foreseest
full-screen application
Gibbs's theorem
gramradio
Hai Trieu
hemogregarina
hemp floor mat
hidradenitis suppurativa
house-hunts
hur-bur
in the green wood
instrumentar
ion blemish
judge-and-jury
kiriko
Kiskundorozsma
linear optimizing
lioconcha lorenziana
longitudinal diffusion
main power building structure construction
manner adverbs
Muntrier
naval gunnery
nemmie
nonresidual
office copier
pancolectomy
peeced
phizs
pitkin
polymerization regulator
quasi international goods
radio goniometry
raising of funds
recommences
Salavatskiy Rayon
sarg
second order dipyramid
small audit
snakewood
stand-by channel
steganalytical
synergistic inactivation
tail fluke
temporary Internet files
to horse
topographic curl effect
tornate
track coach
transit account
unearned
unpreferred
Ureysk
venturia rhois
vodafone
white sanicle
wind tunnel plant
World Jewish Congress
Xenarthra
zana