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
amino-chloro-benzene
Approval of Value Clause
Atotonlico
Bansont
blackboard coordination
blood substitutes
Caneima, I.
Close bracket
coarse azimuth
compass for drawing
complex dimension
compulsory pilotage
constant address
cotwals
couoxylon
cross fold
crushing tester
crystalline rocks
decomplex
delitescence
dialed in
draughon
Eriocaulon brownianum
external mammary artery
external shaving
eyps
gauge orifice
genets
girder face plate
gunning the pits
H-D curve (Hurter-Driffield's curve)
Holy Wednesday
hope to see you again
Hou's process(for soda manufacture)
humanum est errare
immunocyto-adherence
impact forging
incomplete annealing
interactive mode
interconnected stabilizer/elevator
interface generated wave
intertheater
jumping (hydraulic)
land drainage
lead pipe flange
local peaking
Magahi
magnesium aryl compounds
mast seeding
Microstegium biaristatum
microzymes
minicores
neurochemically
New Weird
noise-equivalent target temperature difference
nondispersed
numerical weather predication
osteodentin
outer approach
papula agria
periodic solution
philosophiant
phosphatebuffer buffer system
Piritu
play a round
Pocatalico
polycylindrical endovibrator
Pribilof Islands
radial processing
rat-baiting
roesgen
Salix psilostigma
scheidt
sea bears
selfabandonment
septoria lycopersici italica
sialoductitis
silicated soap
single-function measuring instrument
sludge dewatering equipment
snap fastener
spondyloschisis
standard-length
steam seal
stuff in
subscription shares
superior horn of falciform margin
system shortage
tank surprise
taxpaying unit
tentorium of cerebellum
terzi
the mother of all ___
to invent
try work
trying situation
TSCLT
ultrafiltering balloon
ultrasonic massager
unfrightening
van allens
XRD (X-ray diffraction or X-ray diffractometer)