美联社新闻一分钟 2005-09-05
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. Auditions 1 for “American Idol 2” scheduled in Memphis have been canceled. Producers cited the extensive Hurricane Katrina relief efforts being coordinated 3 in the city. Fox television said the auditions planed at the Fed Ex Forum 4 won't be rescheduled so the city "can focus public safety efforts on the victims."
2. Hilary Duff has pledged to donate $250, 000 to help Katrina victims on the Gulf 5 Coast. The 17-year-old singer actress will give $200,000 to the American Red Cross and $50,000 to USA Harvest which is supplying food to shelters.
3. And Ang Lee premiered his new film "Brokeback Mountain" at the Venice Film Festival. The Taiwanese-born director of "Crouching 6 Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has jumped into yet another genre 7 with this film. It's an American Western, but this is no classic cowboy tale.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. premiere
2 premiere premieres premiering premiered
When a film or show premieres or is premiered, it is shown to an audience for the first time.
The documentary premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
The opera is due to be premiered by ENO next year.
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2. genre
genre genres 8
A genre is a particular type of literature, painting, music, film, or other art form which people consider as a class because it has special characteristics. (FORMAL)
...his love of films and novels in the horror genre.
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- Find modeling auditions, casting calls& acting auditions, all in one place. 找一个立体感试听，铸造呼叫和表演试听一体的地方。 来自互联网
- We are now about to start auditions to find a touring guitarist. 我们现在准备找一个新的吉他手。 来自互联网
- As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子，他是父母的宠儿。
- Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。
- The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
- The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
- They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
- The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- a hulking figure crouching in the darkness 黑暗中蹲伏着的一个庞大身影
- A young man was crouching by the table, busily searching for something. 一个年轻人正蹲在桌边翻看什么。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
- My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
- Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。