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 Thousands of police officers from around the country turned out Saturday for the funeral of Rafael Ramos,one of the NYPD officers killed in an ambush1 shooting last week. Vice2 President Joe Biden was among the speakers. He said their deaths “touched the soul” of an entire nation.

 
North Korea blamed its recently internet outage on the United States on Saturday and hurled3 racially charged insults at President Barack Obama of the hacking4 row involving  “The Interview.” North Korea’s National Defense5 Commission said Obama was behind the release of the comedy that depicts6 leader Kim Jong Un’s assassination7, and described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary8.  
 
Malaysia’s Prime Minister has cut short his US vacation to deal with massive flooding in his country. Atleast five people have died in Malaysia’s worst flood in three decades. More than one hundred thousand have been evacuated9. 
 
A 16-story building in Crimea was finally demolished10 on Saturday, after the first attempt left the structure tilting11 to one side, but mostly intact. Residents cheered as the building fell to theground.
 
Hannah Buchdahl, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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1 ambush DNPzg     
n.埋伏(地点)；伏兵；v.埋伏；伏击
参考例句：
  • Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
  • Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。
2 vice NU0zQ     
n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的
参考例句：
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
3 hurled 16e3a6ba35b6465e1376a4335ae25cd2     
v.猛投，用力掷( hurl的过去式和过去分词 )；大声叫骂
参考例句：
  • He hurled a brick through the window. 他往窗户里扔了块砖。
  • The strong wind hurled down bits of the roof. 大风把屋顶的瓦片刮了下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 hacking KrIzgm     
n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动
参考例句：
  • The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
  • We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。
5 defense AxbxB     
n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩
参考例句：
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
6 depicts fd8ee09c0b2264bb6b44abf7282d37f6     
描绘，描画( depict的第三人称单数 )； 描述
参考例句：
  • The book vividly depicts French society of the 1930s. 这本书生动地描绘了20 世纪30 年代的法国社会。
  • He depicts the sordid and vulgar sides of life exclusively. 他只描写人生肮脏和庸俗的一面。
7 assassination BObyy     
n.暗杀；暗杀事件
参考例句：
  • The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
  • Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
8 reactionary 4TWxJ     
n.反动者，反动主义者；adj.反动的，反动主义的，反对改革的
参考例句：
  • They forced thousands of peasants into their reactionary armies.他们迫使成千上万的农民参加他们的反动军队。
  • The reactionary ruling clique was torn by internal strife.反动统治集团内部勾心斗角，四分五裂。
9 evacuated b2adcc11308c78e262805bbcd7da1669     
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。
10 demolished 3baad413d6d10093a39e09955dfbdfcb     
v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 )；推翻；拆毁（尤指大建筑物）；吃光
参考例句：
  • The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
  • They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。
11 tilting f68c899ac9ba435686dcb0f12e2bbb17     
倾斜，倾卸
参考例句：
  • For some reason he thinks everyone is out to get him, but he's really just tilting at windmills. 不知为什么他觉得每个人都想害他，但其实他不过是在庸人自扰。
  • So let us stop bickering within our ranks.Stop tilting at windmills. 所以，让我们结束内部间的争吵吧！再也不要去做同风车作战的蠢事了。

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