美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-12-27
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2014(十二)月
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French power and transportation company Alstom SA has agreed to pay 772 million dollars in penalties for bribing 1 foreign countries. The Department of Justice announced the company willplead guilty of violating the foreign corrupt 2 practices act, in what is poised 3 tobe the largest penalty of its type ever assessed.
13 people were run down by a rampaging driver in the French city of Dijon. Authorities say that the attacker was detained and suffered from psychological problems. Some witnesses reported hearing the driver say “Allah is great”.
A white Milwaukee police officer who was fired after fatally shooting a mentally ill black man in April will not face criminal charges. The district attorney for Milwaukee says Christopher Manney shot Dontre Hamilton in self-defense. Manney says that Hamilton resisted arrest when frisked.
And call it a Christmas miracle for one lucky Aussie. A group of firefighters were handing out candy to local children in Australia when they smelled smoke coming out from a nearby house. The team stepped in, including one firefighter dressed as old Saint Nick himself, and successfully rescued a man inside the home.
Emily Roseman, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.
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- He tried to escape by bribing the guard. 他企图贿赂警卫而逃走。
- Always a new way of bribing unknown and maybe nonexistent forces. 总是用诸如此类的新方法来讨好那不知名的、甚或根本不存在的魔力。 来自英汉非文学 - 科幻