美联社新闻一分钟 2006-01-22
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2006
1. Still no word on the fate of an American journalist who's been kidnapped in Iraq. Jill Carroll's abductors set a Friday deadline for killing 1 her unless all Iraqi women being held in military custody 2 were released. A Muslim advocacy group has sent a message to the kidnappers 3 saying that harming her will do no good at all.
2. Riot police fire tear gas and beat pro-democracy activists 4 in Nepal Saturday. They protest the King’s seizure 5 of absolute power last year. At least 300 people were arrested and 50 injured. Police fire several rounds of tear gas shells to disperse 6 groups of protestors chanting "Down with autocracy 7, we want democracy!".
3. In a tiny West Virginia coal mining town, intense heat and fire flare-ups are hamper 8ing efforts to rescue two missing miners. They haven't been seen or heard from since fire broke out in the mine late Thursday.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. advocacy : noun [U]
public support for a course of action or way of doing things
e.g. She is renowned 10 for her advocacy of human rights.
2. autocracy : noun [U]
government by a single person or small group that has unlimited 11 power or authority, or the power or authority of such a person or group 独裁政治, 独裁政府
3. flare-up : noun [C]
a sudden outbreak of flame or light:
e.g. a flare-up of the embers(灰烬)
4. hamper : verb [T]
to prevent someone doing something easily:
e.g. Fierce storms have been hampering 9 rescue efforts and there is now little chance of finding more survivors
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
- He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。
- They were freed yesterday by their kidnappers unharmed. 他们昨天被绑架者释放了，没有受到伤害。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The kidnappers had threatened to behead all four unless their jailed comrades were released. 帮匪们曾经威胁说如果印度方面不释放他们的同伙，他们就要将这四名人质全部斩首。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The seizure of contraband is made by customs.那些走私品是被海关没收的。
- The courts ordered the seizure of all her property.法院下令查封她所有的财产。
- The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。
- The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。
- The revolution caused the overthrow of the autocracy.这场革命导致了独裁政体的结束。
- Many poor countries are abandoning autocracy.很多贫穷国家都在放弃独裁统治。
- There are some apples in a picnic hamper.在野餐用的大篮子里有许多苹果。
- The emergence of such problems seriously hamper the development of enterprises.这些问题的出现严重阻碍了企业的发展。
- So fraud on cows and development aid is seriously hampering growth. 因此在牛问题上和发展补助上的诈骗严重阻碍了发展。
- Short-termism, carbon-trading, disputing the science-are hampering the implementation of direct economically-led objectives. 短效主义，出售二氧化碳，进行科学辩论，这些都不利于实现以经济为主导的直接目标。
- He is one of the world's renowned writers.他是世界上知名的作家之一。
- She is renowned for her advocacy of human rights.她以提倡人权而闻名。