美联社新闻一分钟 2007-02-24
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2007
1. The Anna Nicole Smith's circus is picking up sticks and moving to the Bahamas. Friday, a Florida judge handling the paternity suit surrounding her daughter doubted he had jurisdiction 1 over the matter as the baby was born in and still lives in the Bahamas.
2. Police say they found a teen who is abducted 2 at gunpoint from his bus stop earlier in the day. They say Clay Moore has a few scratches on him. But he's otherwise ok.
3. Officials in Costa Rica say they won't charge a 70-year-old American tourist who killed a would-be robber with his bare hands. Officials say the military vet 3 stepped in after the robber put a gun to a woman's head.
4. This isn't the type of clientele any restaurant wants to attract. These dozen rats were caught scurrying 4 around a KFC-Taco Bell in New York this morning. The restaurant has been closed for the time being.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. circus: noun
If you describe a group of people or an event as a circus you disapprove 5 of them because they attract a lot of attention but do not achieve anything useful.
2. jurisdiction: n-uncount
Jurisdiction is the power that a court of law or official has to carry out legal judgments 6 or enforce law.
3. at gunpoint: phrase
If you are held at gunpoint, someone is threatening to shoot and kill you if you do not obey them.
4. clientele: n-count
The clientele of a place or organization are its customer or clients.
- It doesn't lie within my jurisdiction to set you free.我无权将你释放。
- Changzhou is under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.常州隶属江苏省。
- Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
- The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。
- I took my dog to the vet.我把狗带到兽医诊所看病。
- Someone should vet this report before it goes out.这篇报道发表之前应该有人对它进行详查。
- We could hear the mice scurrying about in the walls. 我们能听见老鼠在墙里乱跑。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- We were scurrying about until the last minute before the party. 聚会开始前我们一直不停地忙忙碌碌。 来自辞典例句
- I quite disapprove of his behaviour.我很不赞同他的行为。
- She wants to train for the theatre but her parents disapprove.她想训练自己做戏剧演员，但她的父母不赞成。