Washington governor Jay Inslee says he's ordered immediate steps to correct a computer glitch that allowed several thousand prisoners to be released early. Computers were miscalculating sentences for some inmates, letting about 3 percent of the priso

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2015(十二)月

Qantas is expected to hundreds of jobs when it releases its hard failure result today.The speculation the airline will close one of its two maintenance in Victoria.Qantas has already flagged a sharp decline in profits. Analysts say a strike by coal m

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1. Remains found in the Iraqi city Karbala are thought to be from a mass grave from 1991 when Saddam Hussein's regime put down a Shiite uprising in the South. 2. Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disba

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1. At least two people are dead and dozens more injured in a pileup involving at least one hundred vehicles that forced the closing of interstate 10 in southeast Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety says the cars and trucks crashed in very de

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This is AP News Minute. Arkansas executed 2 prison inmates Monday night. Convicted killers Jack Jones and Marcel Williams received lethal injections about 3 hours apart. It was the first double executions in the United States since back in 2000. Repu

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BBC news with Marion Marshall. The engine manufacturer Royce-Rolls says its reached an 800 million dollar settlement in principle with the British, US and Brazilian authorities relating to bribery corruption. The British company which makes engines f

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Quarrel 争吵 选自电影:American Beauty《美国丽人》 ■ 莱斯特因为受不了上司的欺压,愤然辞职。然而回到家中,却得不到妻子的体谅。于是一场餐桌战越演越烈,油盐酱醋,什么挖苦讽刺都在这段对话中,听来有盐有味,很丰富。 单词通缉令 1.blackmail vt.勒索 2.aspar

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Professor Finds Prisoners' Music from Auschwitz Two years ago, music theory professor Patricia Hall traveled to Polands Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. She hoped to learn about the music performed by prisoners in World War II death camps. Hall, who teache

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Eyewitnesses say it was a scene straight out of a black and white movie from the 1950s. As the sun rose over the fields of Huntsville, Alabama, in the American South, the convicts got down from the trucks that had brought them there. Watched over by

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Freed Palestinian Prisoner Spends First Day at Home in West Bank 释放的巴勒斯坦囚犯度过自己在家的自由第一天 Musa Quraan is spending his first day of freedom receiving family and friends he hasn't seen in 23 years. 穆萨奎拉安和

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This is AP News Minute. Arkansas has carried out its first execution in nearly a dozen years. Ledell Lee killed a woman back in 1993. He was one of eight inmates the state originally planned to execute before a lethal injection drug expires at the en

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This is AP News Minute. A strong earthquake caused panic on Indonesia's island of Lombok on Thursday. At least 220 people are known dead from an earthquake that hit the island last Sunday. Immigration agents raided Minnesota and Nebraska businesses a

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Taliban Free Hundreds of Prisoners in Afghanistan 阿富汗塔利班 袭击监狱释放数百囚犯 Taliban fighters have raided a prison in eastern Afghanistan. Hundreds of prisoners escaped in what Afghan officials are calling a well-organized atta

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教皇访美承诺惩罚性侵施暴者 Pope Francis received a warm welcome Sunday morning from bishops at the seminary where he had been staying during his Philadelphia visit. The Vatican said earlier the pope met privately with five victims of sex

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Lesson 32 Search for 1.I searched for hours , but couldn't find the book . 2.They searched the woods for escaped prisoners . 3.All night they searched for Jim . 4.I must search for the lost money until I find it . 5.He searched the hill for gold . 6.

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今天我们要学的词是 clemency. Clemency 仁慈,宽恕。Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner denied clemency for a Chicago veteran who is facing deportation. 伊利诺伊州州长劳纳驳回了芝加哥一个面临递解出境的退伍军人的宽赦请

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今天我们要学的词是inmate。 Inmate, 指那些被强行关押的人。 Nearly 600 inmates escaped from a Vietnamese drug rehab center, 越南一家戒毒所里的将近六百个瘾君子逃跑了。 统计数字显示, 29 percent of Virgini

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今天我们要学的词是trim。 Trim, 动词,有削减的意思。 The local school district plans to trim $2 million from its annual budget, 当地校区计划将年度预算削减两百万美元。监狱开销给美国各州带来沉重的财政

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

今天我们要学的词儿是routine。 Routine是常规的意思。Routine checkup是定期体检。Routine conference是例行会议。我们应该把锻炼变成日常生活的一部分,可以说 We should make exercise a part of our daily rout

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今天我们要学的词是 mistreatment. Mistreatment 名词,有虐待的意思。Pope Francis said Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from gays for previous mistreatment. 教宗方济各表示,基督徒和罗马天主

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