美联社新闻一分钟 2005-12-28
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2005
1. Remains 1 found in the Iraqi city Karbala are thought to be from a mass grave from 1991 when Saddam Hussein's regime put down a Shiite uprising in the South.
2. Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disband their armed wing, effectively ending their thirty-year separatist insurgency 2 one year after the tsunami 3 hit.
3. Rescue workers pull a fifth body from a train wreck 4 two days after it derailed in northern Japan, following reports that more passengers could be trapped inside.
4. Inmates 6 at a prison in Brazil's remote Amazon jungle hold more than two hundred people hostage, demanding the return of their leader from another prison.
5. And it's a mystery in Boise Idaho where hundreds of stuffed animals appeared under the Statehouse's Christmas tree with a card that only reads "Merry Christmas from Santa".
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. disband
disband disbands disbanding disbanded
If someone disbands a group of people, or if the group disbands, it stops operating as a single unit.
All the armed groups will be disbanded.
The rebels were to have fully 7 disbanded by June the tenth.
V-ERG
= break up
2. wing
4 wing wings
A wing of an organization, especially a political organization, is a group within it which has a particular function or particular beliefs.
...the military wing of the African National Congress.
...the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
N-COUNT: with supp, usu supp N
= section
See also left-wing, right-wing.
3. inmate 5
inmate inmates
The inmates of a prison or mental hospital are the prisoners or patients who are living there.
N-COUNT
4. statehouse
statehouse statehouses
In the United States, a statehouse is where the governor of a state has his or her offices, and where the state legislature meets.
N-COUNT
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国，动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
- Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网
- Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
- Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
- Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
- No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
- 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。