[难点注释] AP News 2014-12-20 附文本

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AP News 2014-12-20

抱歉，暂无内容。

President Barack Obama met with leaders at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Myanmar Wednesday. He told them the US is committed to strengthening its relationships in the region.

Firefighters on Wednesday fully extinguished a fire that destroyed a motel in South Dakota Wednesday. Investigators don't know what started the fire.

Protesters in western Mexico torched cars and broke into a state parliament building Wednesday. They said they were angry at the government's handling of the 43 students from a rural teaching college missing since September.

Creators of a sand castle in Brazil that towers over 39 feet high hope it will be named the world's largest ever built. The sculpture was erected in Niteroi Beach in Rio de Janeiro state and took more than a weekto build.

Salim Essaid, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.

词语解释

1.be committed to 致力于

China will continue to be committed to the reconstruction course of Iraq.

中国将继续致力于伊拉克的重建进程。

2.be angry at 对…发怒

But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here.

但是大英格兰听了我们在此地所说的话一定会恼怒。

3.go missing 消失

He is one of hundreds, perhaps thousands of children who go missing in China each year, victims of roving criminal gangs preying on vulnerable areas.

每年像小锐聪一样失踪的孩子还有成百上千个，一些地区的人口贩卖活动非常猖獗。

4.parliament building 国会大厦

The bunkers may not be so well visited as the glass dome on the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building, but interest is growing.

这座堡垒可能不会像德国国会大厦顶上的玻璃圆屋顶那样吸引众多游客，但人们对它的兴趣正在上升。