美联社新闻一分钟 2005-07-22
时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. In London, no one hurt after small blasts hit 3 subway stations and a bus in a chilling but bloodless replay of the suicide bombings 2 weeks ago.
2. Gunmen in the Iraqi capital Baghdad seize 2 Algerian diplomats 1 in the latest abduction of Islamic diplomats there in just weeks.
3. Secretary of State Rice demands and gets an apology after security forces in Sudan rough up U.S. officials and reporters travelling with her.
4. A man arrested after a fatal shootout in Georgia admits throwing a grenade during President Bush’s speech in the former Soviet 3 Republic.
5. And Indonesia's hospitals go on alert to receive bird flu patients, hours after the Asian nation reports its first human death from the virus.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. abduct 2 :VB=kidnap,abduct;abducts;abducting 4;abducted 5
If someone is abducted by another person, he or she is taken away illegally, usually using force.
eg. She was sent for trial yesterday charged with abducting a six-month-old child.
• N:abduction; abductions
eg. ...the abduction of four black youths from a church hostel 6 in Soweto.
• N:abductor; abductors
eg. She co-operated with her abductor for fear that something might happen to the child.
2. grenade :N,grenade;grenades
A grenade or a hand grenade is a small bomb that can be thrown by hand.
eg. A hand grenade was thrown at an army patrol.
- These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
- The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The police caught the man who tried to abduct the boy for ransom.警察抓住了那个企图拐走这男孩以便勒索赎金的家伙。
- The news that we see those use network abduct children sometimes filled with apprehension.我们有时看到那些利用网络诱拐儿童的新闻都心惊肉跳。
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- She was charged with abducting a six-month-old child. 她被控诱拐一个6个月大的孩子。
- At the same time, the rate of abducting foreigners is going down. 同时,发生在外国人身上的绑架案正在下降。
- Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
- The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。