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-switchboard
almost there
ambient foods
annexations
Antonello da Messina
Argonne three-roll tube reducer
be in a fume
bello
Belomorsko-Baltiyskiy Kanal
bile salt broth
blepharadenitis
borofsky
cape-chisel
christian-humanists
close-packed lattice
coriolopsis strumosa
coufal
customable
cut-off load
Dalbergia cearensis
data information display
dead bank
digit input group contact
displacement of resonance line
dorsi
drills down
edward vincent sullivans
embden-meyerhof pathway
enterprise with foreign capital
evaporator condensate
extra-spectral color
fallu
future address patch
grayscale image
Guanipa, R.
hand reset system
havour
heavy electron
height of closed grab
Heirnkut
hostiler
hyperlutemia
idle limiter
irregularly scheduled
izopamfos
james thomson
Kaya-gun
Kicked to touch
kiwayu
knapsack lever type sprayer
Larrey Pt.
limit of variation
log infrared
lounge cars
magmatic suite
Malyy Lyakhovskiy
maximum cyclic load
meliola malacotricha
meteorological network
monoaurally
mutual interdependent fixation
naphthylamine-5-sulfonic acid
non redundant structure
paraboloidal mirror
pars posterior rhinencephali
perversion
Phenomycilliae
photo-enhanced dermatosis
pollen toxin
posterior cecal artery
potassium xanthonate
praesumptio hominis vel facti
PunkBuster
pyridoxol
radiotelegraph operator
recruiting curve
rising top
sample census
sellmeier dispersion formula
Sengsengebirge
Short-Swing Profit Rule
smoke tester
snow chains
Southern Ocean
spectroscopic temperature measurement
spot welding primer
stability in pitching
Starkrimson
ta yu ku
teleradiography
tocopheryl
truck transport terminal
tupped
Typhonium giganteum Engl.
upper layer cloud
user input area
valen
Verne, Jules
want a go
wipe outs
wire grate concave
world price