美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-06-03-英语课

时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2014(六)月

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1. Police in Los Angeles say the man who rushed Brad Pitt on the red carpet Wednesday night is a Ukraine Journalist with a history of getting too close to celebrities 1. The suspect, 25-year-old, Vitalii Sediuk was jailed on suspicion of misdemeanour battery and held in lieu of 20,000 dollars bail 2. Court records show he is on probation 3 until June 2016 for an incident last year where he grabbed a mic at the Grammys before Adele could accept her award.

2. This latest incident occurred at the Hollywood premiere of Angelina Jolie’s new movie “Maleficent”. Witnesses saw the man jumped over a barrier and approached Pitt, making contact with the star before security guards pushed him back. Pitt did not appear hurt and resume signing autography before heading into the theatre.

3. Earlier this month, the same suspect was dragged away from the Cannes Film Festival after crawling under the dress of actress America Ferrara. Past stunts 4 also include attempting to kiss Will Smith at a red carpet event in Moscow, Smith slapped him away, watching Bradley Cooper’s leg before the Screen Actors Guild 5 Awards, and trying the same with Leonardo DiCaprio at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Sediuk’s publicist says she has cut ties with him over the Brad Pitt incident.

1 celebrities

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目

2 bail

v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人

One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。

3 probation

n.缓刑(期)，(以观后效的)察看；试用(期)

The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱，而且将他缓刑察看一年。
His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后，他的工资增加了800元。

4 stunts

n.惊人的表演( stunt的名词复数 )；（广告中）引人注目的花招；愚蠢行为；危险举动v.阻碍…发育[生长]，抑制，妨碍( stunt的第三人称单数 )