美联社新闻一分钟 2006-02-11
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. American journalist Jill Carroll's captors are threatening to kill her on Feb. 26th, if the US military doesn’t release all Iraqi women from prison. Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Christian 1 Science Monitor, was kidnapped in Baghdad Jan. 7th.
2. Former FEMA chief Michael Brown blames the Department of Homeland Security for the government’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina. Brown says officials were warned that New Orleans' levees were breach 2ed on the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore 4.
3. In a surprise move, Lewis Libby admits he leaked the name of a CIA operative. But he says he was following orders by his superiors. The former top aide to Vice 5 President Dick Cheney also told the federal grand jury the classified material was used by the Bush administration to justify 6 invading Iraq.
4. This California woman who's 3 feet tall and weighed 37 pounds before she got pregnant has given birth to her first child, a healthy boy. The new mom suffers from a rare disorder 7 that makes her bones soft and brittle 8
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. freelance : adjective, adverb
doing particular pieces of work for different organizations, rather than working all the time for a single organization:
e.g. Most of the journalists I know are/work freelance.
2. breach : verb
to break a hole in a wall that is intended to protect a place:
e.g. The storm had breached 3 the sea wall in two places.
3. superior : noun [C], adjective
(a person or group of people who are) higher in rank or social position than others:
e.g. I will pass your complaint on to my superiors.
4. brittle : adjective
delicate and easily broken:
e.g. As you get older your bones become increasingly brittle.
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
- We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
- He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
- These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
- Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
- The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
- He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
- He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解。
- Can you justify your rude behavior to me?你能向我证明你的粗野行为是有道理的吗？
- When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
- It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。