美联社新闻一分钟 AP 拜登谈与普京的首次峰会目标

This is AP News Minute.

这里是美联社一分钟新闻。

President Biden heads to Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday, a day ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

拜登总统周二将前往瑞士日内瓦，他将在次日与俄罗斯总统普京会晤。

Biden says he'll push Putin to stop conduct such as Russian-originated cyber-attacks against the west, the stifling¹ of political dissidents and election interference.

拜登表示，他将敦促普京停止俄罗斯方面针对西方的网络攻击、压制政治异见人士和干预选举等行为。

Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized for her comments comparing vaccine² and mask mandates³ to the Holocaust⁴.

共和党国会女议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林(Marjorie Taylor Greene)为其将打疫苗和戴口罩命令比作大屠杀的言论道歉。

She visited the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C. and said she's "truly sorry for offending people."

她参观了位于华盛顿特区的大屠杀博物馆，并表示她“对冒犯了别人感到非常抱歉”。

A grocery store clerk near Atlanta was shot and killed after what authorities say was an argument over face masks.

亚特兰大附近一家杂货店的店员被枪杀，当局称这是一场因戴口罩引发的争执。

Three people were wounded including a suspect, who was taken into custody⁵.

3人受伤，其中一名嫌疑人已被拘留。

A Northern Illinois fire chief says a chemical plant could burn for days after a massive explosion.

伊利诺斯州北部一消防局的局长表示，一家化工厂发生大规模爆炸后可能会燃烧数天。

People within two miles of the plant were told to evacuate⁶.

该化工厂两英里范围内的居民被告知撤离。

1 stifling   

a.令人窒息的

参考例句：

• The weather is stifling. It looks like rain. 今天太闷热，光景是要下雨。
• We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed. 我们在那间关着窗户的热屋子里，简直透不过气来。

2 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。

3 mandates   

托管（mandate的第三人称单数形式）

参考例句：

• Individual mandates would require all people to purchase health insurance. 个人托管要求所有人都要购买健康保险。
• While I agree with those benefits, I'm not a supporter of mandates. 我同意上述好处，我不是授权软件的支持者。

4 holocaust   

n.大破坏；大屠杀

参考例句：

• The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
• Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。

5 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

6 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• 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。