时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2006


英语课

1. 26-year-old Kevin Underwood was charged with 1st-degree murder in Purcell, Oklahoma Monday for the brutal 1 death of his 10-year-old neighbor Jamie Rose Bolin. Police say Underwood sexually assaulted the girl after he killed her and say he planned to eat the corpse 2.

2. At least 9 people were killed after a suicide bomber 3 set off a device near a crowded fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv. Nearly 50 were wounded in the attack. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.

3. The annual White House Easter Egg Roll was held Monday despite wet weather. First Lady Laura Bush and President Bush presided over the traditional egg roll. The Family Pride Coalition 4 encouraged same-sex couples to attend this year.

4. Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday. The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and the Sun Herald 5 of Gulfport, Mississippi, each won Public Service Awards for their coverage 6 of Hurricane Katrina. The Washington Post won a total of 4 Pulitzers.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. corpse :noun [C]
a dead body, usually of a person

2. Pulitzer Prize :noun
one of the eight prizes given every year in the US to people who have produced especially good work in journalism 7 (=writing for newspapers) , literature, or music. The prizes were started by the US newspaper owner Joseph Pulitzer(1847-1911), and winning a Pulitzer Prize is a great honour.

3. coverage :noun [U]
the reporting of a particular important event or subject:
e.g. What did you think of the BBC's election coverage?



adj.残忍的,野蛮的,不讲理的
  • She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
  • They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼,骨子里却是野蛮残忍。
n.尸体,死尸
  • What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
  • The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。
n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • 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。
vt.预示...的来临,预告,宣布,欢迎
  • In England, the cuckoo is the herald of spring.在英国杜鹃鸟是报春的使者。
  • Dawn is the herald of day.曙光是白昼的先驱。
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
n.新闻工作,报业
  • He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师,可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
  • He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。
学英语单词
access programme
analogue recording
argument value
Armistice Day
aspersoria
ass breaths
assignee in involvency
auerswaldiella lithocarpicola
belligerent
Bologna flask
branding irons
building block valve
cementing property
chansler
chaotic deposit
commercialization of housing
controlled wall blasting
crosswise inheritance
cryogenic liquid tank
davyds
decision method
Dhahab, Wādī
divulgate
down-market
Drypetes salicifolia
electronic musical instrument
enterlacing
farmage
fine-gauge machine
Finnan
flight balance
flight dynamics officer
fluming
full graphic panel
full-farest
galianoes
genus althaeas
germ bread
handirons
head-to-row test
heat rum test
hepta-valent neptunium ion
homoeopath
hypermetropic eye
inlays
Isospora bigemina
jdb
La Clayette
lauroyls
law lords
let it die
lymphotoxins
Mazomeno
Meggers lamp
modular analog computer
multiple directional control valve
myskina
nasutitermes takasagoensis
non-classical prescriptions
Novomikanit
nulhomotopic
octosyllables
on-again
overtaken vessel
parabathymyrus brachyrhynchus
partes glabra
polyatomic species
pool water
precision pressure gauge
profilin
pseudo-rational
q.suff.
quick off the mark
reddish podsol
relative soil moisture
rubber tapper
semi-reflecting mirror
sinus barotrauma
slaunwhite
Slonsk
sneak up on
stakeout
stationary knockout grid
steel rust removing
sulphur cauldron
sweitzer
tangential tool holder
Teng-chou
the grove of Academe
themus (themus) pallidipes
therapeutic(al) dose
tiendas
time-experience
topsin methyl-thiram wettable powder
torode
tracking radar
vasoligations
visual function
visual fusion
vo2
wheel tyres
Yemeni fils