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
5-MT
agent contract
air fitter
angali
Ardtoe
b-uranopilite
bagataway
boiler water circulating system
canceling out
capacity decision
cathode-ray oscillograph tube
chain termination codon
Charlie
chart dimension
co2 machine
cold start valve
computerized modular monitoring (cmm)
concentric conductor
convery
covering mapping
Cylicostephanus
decoration cement
directive power
draw wire
drift
dustcloth
ebner
edwardsville
elay
English vocabulary level test
ETAB
fatting
feddersen
Feynman propagator
foreign mission
fray around the edges
guard-rail
guenon monkey
Ikot Ubo
impermeable layer
in possession of
indirect radiator
internal construction
interpediculate
invertin
juvenile reflex
Khilok
Koréra-Koré
lipoedema
M. D. C.
main peak
Marinesian
medial geniculate
medical instruments
methylbutyrase
non-uniform soil
notes payable to subsidiary
o-aminoacetanilide
octopuses
oil pressure equalizing valve
optics of metal
oropharynges
os breves
outboasting
overpowerings
OVLD
oxide
oxydative degradation
particularises
pathologising
pawnees
Pleuroweisieae
pneumatic dipleg
porous pellet pulse reactor
projective base
quantum chromodynamics (qcd)
radiator vent pipe
registrogram
residual flame time
rotating armature relay
Rudolf II
Sapri
schrotter carbonate determination apparatus
side hill washer
sniperscope
snow glacier
sou'-wester
spanwire winch
spring bending
subfamily Numididae
sunship
svsiscses-s
synergistic gangrene
the games
Tirrill burner
Torrubia de Soria
unantagonistic
unindicative
unlamented
vincristin
Viňuela
you set me up