美联社新闻一分钟 AP 加州大火致数千人撤离_在线英语听力室

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This is AP News Minute.

Wildfires are driving thousands of Californians from their homes. A fire north of Sacramento forced about 4,000 to evacuate¹. More than 3,000 others have evacuated² from flames near Santa Barbara.

Health care reform is expected to be the big topic, as Congress returns from its July 4th recess³ Monday. At least two Republican Senators say the latest GOP health care reform plan is probably dead on arrival.

Iraqi military commanders say they believe hundreds of Islamic State fighters are holed up in a narrow area of Mosul and using entire families as human shields. The Iraqi soldiers are trying to clear out the remaining militants⁴.

And Venezuela has marked 100 days of anti-government protests. Demonstrators are angry about President Nicolas Maduro's plan to have the country's constitution rewritten, saying he's trying to make himself a dictator.

Matt Small, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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1 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。

2 evacuated
撤退者的
参考例句：
Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。 The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

3 recess
n.短期休息，壁凹（墙上装架子，柜子等凹处）
参考例句：
The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。 Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。

4 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。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 加州大火致数千人撤离