美联社新闻一分钟 2006-06-27
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. Torrential rains have caused flooding up and down the East Coast, nearly a foot of rain fell in some areas, dozens of people had to be rescued or evacuated 1.
2. Billionaire Warren Buffett is giving away most of his fortune. Buffett, who is worth an estimated 44 billion dollars, says he's gonna give away about 85 percent of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
3. A surveillance camera in a Las Vegas casino captured an early morning shooting. A fight broke out among a group of people. One man pulled out a gun and began shooting. Police are now looking for him.
4. A Rockies baseball game in Lexington, Kentucky after a manager became upset over a bad call and went on a tirade 2 to end all tirades 3. The manager was eventually ejected. His team lost the game
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. give away : phrasal verb
If you give away something that you own, you give it to someone, rather than selling it, often because you no longer want it.
2. tirade : n-count
A tirade is a long angry speech in which someone criticizes a person or thing.
- 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。
- Her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband.她的长篇大论激起了她丈夫的强烈反对。
- He delivered a long tirade against the government.他发表了反政府的长篇演说。