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
acetylsufafurazole
Actavis
addicted to wine
aerophil
antereisis
apron marking
auto-curve
Bela-Slatina
boarding schools
bootstrapping
brundtlands
cam-o-matic grinder
capillary arc ion source
carcmomatosis
chemiluminescent material
consolidationist
consumer optical disc players
contrastive pair
corrosive liquor pump
cousin i. (north cousin islet)
crossed double bond
cylinder escapement watch
DeMann
durian
earthtrusts
electron opticss
endoglucanase
engine conditioning oil
family style
firm cure
five square
floe field
fog room
fold period
gonidia
Helmholtz resonance
heterocont
hexahydroxystearic acid
inbucon
infection density
investment discount
joachann
leucopis (leucopis) apicalis
Liang, Pulau
lifting from the bottom test
light load condition
lipspeaking
loogootee
macrodantin
mdawalo
mischannelled
moonwalking
motorised crane
motormouths
n-uristix
narrabri
neutral augon laser
nonrecently
Nordicness
Norfolk Howard
normal breathing sound
paffle
pagani
paint-ball
periwinkle plant derivatives
petiole nitrate nitrogen
polymethyl methacrylates
Pontocythere
program preceding
public business
roof rail
run the wrong hare
satstream
Sedalcor
sessionally
side share
single breasted
single clamp
slow ahead both engines
social dancer
Soraga
source emittance
sponger
Sredniy Kalar
submarine domain
symmetrically
symptomatically
table water
thanehede
the Red Crescent
trigonochlamydids
uk nautical mile
Valeriana jatamansi
versas
Visual Basic Windows
wart-hill
whole crude
wide-flange beam
windows phone
Yildizeli
Zarevo