美联社新闻一分钟 2007-03-28
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. President Bush wants Press Secretary Tony Snow to stay strong, now that his cancer has returned and spread to his liver. The discovery was made while Snow was having surgery to remove a small growth. He battled colon 1 cancer two years ago.
2. In Maryland, a man and his four children were found dead in a townhouse. The children were in beds beneath sheets, the father hanging by a rope from a banister. The family's mother is missing. Police made the discovery after a school employee noticed the children absent for several days. Authorities are looking for a motive 2.
3. An aide to Virginia Senator Jim Webb faces weapons violations 3 following his arrest yesterday for allegedly trying to carry a gun into a Senate office building. The Senator's office calls the incident an oversight 4. Webb says the arrest is enormously unfortunate.
4. In Arizona, inmates 6 are chasing dreams, American Idol 7 style. This is Inmate 5 Idle. That's I-D-L-E, a competition the Maricopa County sheriff dreamed up to boost inmates' self-esteem and make use of their idle time. Inmates auditioned 9 with the best belting are now before judges including the sheriff.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. colon: n-uncount 结肠
Your colon is the part of your intestine 10 above your rectum.
2. audition 8: n-count 试镜
An audition is a short performance given by an actor, dancer or musician so that a director or conductor can decide if they are good enough to be in a play, film or orchestra.
3. belting: n-uncount
Belting is a specific technique of singing by which a singer uses his or her chest voice in order to produce high and powerful pitches.
4. sheriff: n-count
In the United States, a sheriff is a person who is elected to make sure that the law is obeyed in a particular county.
- Here,too,the colon must be followed by a dash.这里也是一样，应当在冒号后加破折号。
- The colon is the locus of a large concentration of bacteria.结肠是大浓度的细菌所在地。
- The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
- He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
- This is one of the commonest traffic violations. 这是常见的违反交通规则之例。
- These violations of the code must cease forthwith. 这些违犯法规的行为必须立即停止。
- I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
- Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。
- I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
- The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。
- One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。
- I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音，可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
- At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初，他们说他太小，但后来他们叫他去试听。
- None of the actresses we have auditioned is suitable. 我们试听的这些女演员都不合适。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- What is that, from some script you auditioned for in the '40s? 什么玩意儿是你40年代试的那些剧本吗？ 来自电影对白