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
.dv
account numbers
aerographer
alarm transfer system
aseptic packaging
average general cost
balanced bottom hole pressure method
Ban Lam Kai
bandar penggaram (batu pahat)
banxring
bass reflex loudspeaker
boat builder
bodyshells
Bol'shoy Bogdo, Gora
bow head
Brassia
broc
C.M.R.
calyptrolithophora gracillima
changings
collecting point
continous titrator
corb binder
dhers
die size
Dolbyized
e-cheque
earth's magnetosphere
elephant yam
ellena
entrucking
fetal blood group
free float
freezing oil
game cropping
genus Holothuria
half-height drive
hierarchist
himself
holdfast root
HPPE
impres-
incidental frequency modulation
inside calipers micrometer
Irish flute
labor-capital ratio
laryngeal saccule
Lemhi County
logic power supply
low side breed plugs
marumba cristata bukaiana
masons level
mesotocin
minimum attenuation between output and input
Namukumbo
neo-darwinisms
neurovirulence
Olympos, Oros
On hook.
ordnance supplies
overinhalation
overpromises
oxydendrum arboreums
pancreatic branch
patentlike
people's mic
perfect impression
physarum decipiens
Polygonum japonicum
Posthatch
preiere
punch'd
radiofrequency catheter ablation
resonance frequency indicator
rite-of-passage
scurids
sequenceability
sludge recycle
Snyder sampler
socioeconomic systems management
special proviso
splashed around
stand-by capacity
streamer chamber
subfolder of
subprotocol
super-cooled vapor
thickly populated
tire yarn
traver
Troyane
ttl technology
turbo-machine fluid dynamics
ultramicrocut
unsinfully
user agent protocol
uvula of vermis
white-leaved oak shales
wind up an account
zorita