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President Donald Trump¹'s former chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on fraud charges. Prosecutors² allege³ he and three others pocketed money from donations made to a group planning to build a southern border wall. The arrest makes Bannon the latest addition to a stunningly⁴ long line of Trump associates to have been prosecuted⁵.

特朗普总统的前首席策略师史蒂夫·班农因欺诈指控于周四被捕。检察官称，他与另外三名被告私吞了捐赠给一个计划在南部边境修建隔离墙的组织的资金。班农成为特朗普被起诉的亲信中的最新一员。

The number of U.S. workers applying for unemployment benefits climbed back to over a million last week after two steady weeks of declines. Figures released Thursday suggest employers are still slashing⁶ jobs even as businesses reopen and sectors⁷ like housing and manufacturing are on the mend.

美国上周申请失业救济人数在连续两周下降后回升至100多万。周四公布的数据显示，尽管企业重新营业，住房和制造业等行业正在好转，但雇主仍在大幅裁员。

Russian opposition⁸ leader Alexei Navalny is currently at a Siberian hospital in a coma⁹ after falling ill from suspected poisoning. The 44-year-old fell ill on a flight back to Moscow Thursday. He is considered one of President Putin's fiercest critics.

俄罗斯反对派领导人阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼(Alexei Navalny)疑似中毒，目前正在西伯利亚一家医院处于昏迷状态。44岁的他周四在返回莫斯科的航班上病倒。他被认为是普京总统最严厉的批评者之一。

Firefighters in northern California are currently battling more than two dozen major fires, largely the result of unprecedented¹⁰ lightning over the last few days. The fires dstroyed dozens of structures and are threatening at least 50,000 more.

加州北部的消防队员目前正在与20多处大火战斗，这些大火主要是过去几天里前所未有的闪电造成的。大火吞噬了几十座建筑，并威胁到至少5万多座建筑。

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1 trump
n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭
参考例句：
He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。 The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 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。

3 allege
vt.宣称，申述，主张，断言
参考例句：
The newspaper reporters allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.新闻记者们宣称这个男人是被谋杀的，但他们没提出证据。 Students occasionally allege illness as the reason for absence.学生时不时会称病缺课。

4 stunningly
ad.令人目瞪口呆地；惊人地
参考例句：
The cooks, seamstresses and other small investors are stunningly vulnerable to reversals. 那些厨师、裁缝及其他的小投资者非常容易受到股市逆转的影响。 The production cost of this huge passenger liner is stunningly high. 这艘船城造价之高令人惊叹。

5 prosecuted
a.被起诉的
参考例句：
The editors are being prosecuted for obscenity. 编辑因刊载污秽文字而被起诉。 The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。

6 slashing
adj.尖锐的；苛刻的；鲜明的；乱砍的v.挥砍( slash的现在分词 )；鞭打；割破；削减
参考例句：
Slashing is the first process in which liquid treatment is involved. 浆纱是液处理的第一过程。来自辞典例句 He stopped slashing his horse. 他住了手，不去鞭打他的马了。来自辞典例句

7 sectors
n.部门( sector的名词复数 )；领域；防御地区；扇形
参考例句：
Berlin was divided into four sectors after the war. 战后柏林分成了4 个区。来自《简明英汉词典》 Industry and agriculture are the two important sectors of the national economy. 工业和农业是国民经济的两个重要部门。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

8 opposition
n.反对，敌对
参考例句：
The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。 The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

9 coma
n.昏迷，昏迷状态
参考例句：
The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。 She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。

10 unprecedented
adj.无前例的，新奇的
参考例句：
The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。 A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 白宫前首席战略师班农因欺诈被捕