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
7-Methylcoumarin
all synchromesh gearbox
announce monitor
assembling process
baers
beet top silage
Bhatapara
Bigelowia
boehringer
bosnich
bran and middlings
Calci-Ostalin
carrick bends
catholic libraries and collections
Chaetangiaceae
chapmen
chiltting
cholecystenterorrhapyh
coded command
complex transmission
compliance function
computer aided ship design
consistency constraint
desuetudo
digenic acid
disability benefit
discharging their content but not installing it
double circuit integral
dress shirt
edipism
electrocaloric coefficient
exhaust header
extra conductive furnace black(ECF)
film-recording oscilloscope
fine-coal
fluctuation of price
frakes
get in sour
get scent of
give rise to
hauss
hot air roll
hot-press resin
Hungarian lilac
iceflows
if statement
INDOR
integrated activities
interstate communciator
iso corrosion line
Karakaya, Gora
Kick raise the devil's delight
langerhan's cell
lanthanotidaes
lobster palace
long-term contract
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
mail file
malignant disease
matching connector
Montmartre
most-favored-nation clause
move up a gear
multiple vortex configuration
novelette
optimum interpolation (oi)
outborrowing
outby
over-read
paphood
Point Pleasant
polycope integumentalia
potting mixture
Proto-Chamic
pure-minded
pussifies
receipt voucher
reconstricted
redtwig dogwoods
rerefer
samuel ting
Saybolt viscosity test
seasonally
semi-submersible drilling platform
signal circuit
Silene viscidula
spunbonding
steel sheets and plate(s)
stints
tail feather
tail flick
tissue of tooth
took the shape of
toolkit without an interesting name
trace analyzer
usa-mades
video pill
weatherfax
Windows ME
womanistic
woodsia andersonii(bedd.)christ
zfy