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
3-hinged arch
adhorted
agonid
air bleed principle
AkTISOLON
Altimina
ansahs
antheridiophore
attendaunt
bell rope
Boulal
brize welding
Bwana Mkubwa
caput costae
Christolea flabellata
coilloading
coin-tossing game
cold anodising
conference member
deft.
degaussing
development expenses
direct-contact (spray) desuperheater
drilled caisson
eccentric rod and reverse link pin
efflux control
electroluminescences
enchiridia
engine performance test
ergodic principle
ethyl-thiourea
feedforward control action
filgueira
firesafety
Floridia
freezing point method
full boiling point
hamzy
high water stand
holding out for
hygienics of children and adolescents
infrared sensing head
ingrooves
l-l
lacertus medius
LeukotrieneA4
lipidemias
locating stud
Lusin's theorem
Malijai
mamasita
manorial roll
markered
miscovetise
mitsvahs
module complex library
mould,mold
Narsimhapur
organizational adaptiveness
outside wedlock
Oxycon
parabasal spine
pasteurized process cheese spread
piecemeals
pirazocillin
pizza parlor
plate rudder
Plocamieae
resting mark
retakers
Rhomotoxine
rise from grave
sapotes
scratchie
semilla
setosest
shear number
sight bed
small deformation
sodium platinous chloride
soil erosion effect
specific ionization loss
spring-clean
Staurogyne brachystachya
stenygrinum quadrinotatum
subtarget
succinic acids
sulphobacteria
supernormal profits
sympathizes with
TALD
teraelectronvolts
test sulfure
throw dust in the eyes of sb
touracoes
Tupana, R.
unfrenchified
unillusioned
upscale trip
vou
world crisis
yiffable