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 The Pentagon says the US and coalition¹ partners are carrying out air strikes against Islamic state extremist ISIS in Syria. A new front of US operation against the militants². The strikes are sent on Raka where ISIS’s headquarters are.

 

Canadian border agency stop three Afghan officers trying to cross into the country from the US. They disappeared from the US training base on Cape³ Cod⁴ for the weekend. US military officials say they are asking for asylum⁵ in Canada. NPR’s Tom Bowman has more.

The three officers were apprehended⁶ by Canadian authorities as they tried to cross the Rainbow Bridge which connects US and Canada. Canadian officials have no immediate⁷ comment, but two American military officials said Canada was evaluating the asylum request. The three officers, a major and two captains, are among two hundred international officers taking part in a peace keeping exercise at Cape Code Base. Officials say they left a tour in Cape Code mall in Hyannis Saturday. The officers were carefully offended, the official said, posed no threat for they were not carrying weapons, it’s a second incident this month. Two Afghan police officers training at Marine⁸ base in Quantico, Virginia left in a supervised trip to Georgetown. Tom Bowman, NPR News Washington.

 

Security has tightened⁹ the White House after a man climbed the fence made in the front door, the executive mansion¹⁰ at the Friday night. The suspect Omar Gonzalez appeared in court today. A federal judge says he will be held in custody¹¹ at least until October 1st. NPR report it’s not the first time Gonzalez has drawn¹² the attention of the authorities.

A federal prosecutor¹³ says Omar Gonzalez was arrested in July with a sniper rifle and a map marking the White House. In August he was stopped but not arrested near the White House with a hatchet¹⁴ in his way spent. And then Friday he jumped the fence and made all the way to the North Portico¹⁵ door before being stopped. Prosecutors¹⁶ say he had a holding knife in his pocket and more than 800 ammunition¹⁷ in his car. The incident has put shut scrutiny¹⁸ on the secret service. But president Obama says he still has confidence in the service. The president spokesman says the front door will now be locked when it isn’t in use. 

 

Treasury¹⁹ Secretary Jacob Lew Says the government is imposing²⁰ new regulations to curb²¹ so-called tax inversions²². And such practices in which corporations acquire foreign businesses and they switch their citizenship²³ outside of United States to avoid paying US taxes. Lew says the loophole, undercuts businesses that are responsibly and leave the middle class with the bill. He says the new rules which will take effect immediately mean inverting²⁴ will no longer make economic sense.

 

On Wall Street today, the Dow fell at 107 points. Nasdaq lost 52. This is NPR.

 

More apologies in the domestic violence scandal involving Baltimore Ravens²⁵, former running back Ray Rice. Raven’s owner Steve Bisciotti says team official should have pressed earlier to see the video that let the NFL to ban Rice. “I’m sorry that we didn’t push harder to get that tape. It seems to me that we certainly had the leverage²⁶ to say to Ray and his lawyer that we can’t have him play on our team until we saw that last bit of evidence”.  In the news conference today Bisciotti also dismissed accusations²⁷ that Raven’s official pressed the NFL to be lenient²⁸ in punishing Rice.

 

A Disney stage musical, 17 years old, is setting a box office record. NPR net ulopy reports the Lion King is now the most successful title in any entertainment media. The Lion King is the bestselling Broadway musical in history. It has made 7.2 billion dollars’ sales worldwide. That doesn’t count on much T-shirts and posters or profits from spent also video games or TV shows, nor does it count the half billion dollars’ the movie the box office. The stage musical has been played in 21 countries and in 18 different languages. Attendance has gone up every year for the past 5 years. That a usual success partly because the movie access aggrandizing²⁹ for the stage show. And producers have also been verily about adjusting ticket pricing about last minute to ensure all houses.

1 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

2 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

3 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

4 cod   

n.鳕鱼；v.愚弄；哄骗

参考例句：

• They salt down cod for winter use.他们腌鳕鱼留着冬天吃。
• Cod are found in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.北大西洋和北海有鳕鱼。

5 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

6 apprehended   

逮捕，拘押( apprehend的过去式和过去分词 )； 理解

参考例句：

• She apprehended the complicated law very quickly. 她很快理解了复杂的法律。
• The police apprehended the criminal. 警察逮捕了罪犯。

7 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

8 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

9 tightened   

收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 )； （使）变紧； （使）绷紧； 加紧

参考例句：

• The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
• His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机，然后又松开了。

10 mansion   

n.大厦，大楼；宅第

参考例句：

• The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
• The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。

11 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。

12 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

13 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

14 hatchet   

n.短柄小斧；v.扼杀

参考例句：

• I shall have to take a hatchet to that stump.我得用一把短柄斧来劈这树桩。
• Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.别用斧头拍打朋友额头上的苍蝇。

15 portico   

n.柱廊，门廊

参考例句：

• A large portico provides a suitably impressive entrance to the chapel.小教堂入口处宽敞的柱廊相当壮观。
• The gateway and its portico had openings all around.门洞两旁与廊子的周围都有窗棂。

16 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

17 ammunition   

n.军火，弹药

参考例句：

• A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
• They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。

18 scrutiny   

n.详细检查，仔细观察

参考例句：

• His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好，但是经不起仔细检查。
• Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。

19 treasury   

n.宝库；国库，金库；文库

参考例句：

• The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
• This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。

20 imposing   

adj.使人难忘的，壮丽的，堂皇的，雄伟的

参考例句：

• The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
• He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。

21 curb   

n.场外证券市场，场外交易；vt.制止，抑制

参考例句：

• I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
• You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。

22 inversions   

倒置( inversion的名词复数 )； （尤指词序）倒装； 转化； （染色体的）倒位

参考例句：

• Chromosome breaks may also lead to inversions and translocations. 染色体破裂也可能引起倒位与易位。
• The males suspected to have induced inversions were later used to build up stocks. 疑有诱发倒位的雄性然后用于建立原种。

23 citizenship   

n.市民权，公民权，国民的义务(身份)

参考例句：

• He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
• Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。

24 inverting   

v.使倒置，使反转( invert的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• She caught the insect by inverting her cup over it. 她用杯子扣住了那只昆虫。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He started out inverting 2,000,000, but eventually invested only 200,000. 他们开始打算投资200万，可是后来只有20万。 来自互联网

25 ravens   

n.低质煤；渡鸦( raven的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Wheresoever the carcase is,there will the ravens be gathered together. 哪里有死尸，哪里就有乌鸦麇集。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• A couple of ravens croaked above our boat. 两只乌鸦在我们小船的上空嘎嘎叫着。 来自辞典例句

26 leverage   

n.力量，影响；杠杆作用，杠杆的力量

参考例句：

• We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
• He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力，他的计划失败了。

27 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
• He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。

28 lenient   

adj.宽大的，仁慈的

参考例句：

• The judge was lenient with him.法官对他很宽大。
• It's a question of finding the means between too lenient treatment and too severe punishment.问题是要找出处理过宽和处罚过严的折中办法。

29 aggrandizing   

v.扩大某人的权力( aggrandize的现在分词 )；提高某人的地位；夸大；吹捧

参考例句：

• Perhaps Comrades within the Party would say: Is not aggrandizing? 也许党内有同志会说，是不是夸大了呀？ 来自互联网