时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇


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[00:00.00]Both the Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers

[00:03.82]started to include sensational 1 stories

[00:06.56]about the Cuban Insurrection.

[00:09.08]The stories greatly exaggerated claims

[00:13.56]of Spanish troops placing Cubans

[00:16.08]in concentration camps,

[00:18.05]forcing them to live

[00:20.34]under substandard conditions,

[00:22.09]diseaseridden, starving and dying.

[00:25.16]This style of reporting

[00:28.11]became known as “Yellow Journalism”.

[00:29.75]The newspapers were transformed

[00:33.58]as the scope of the news broadened

[00:35.88]and became less conservative.

[00:38.72] Circulation soared as the public could

[00:42.00]get enough of the banner headlines

[00:44.41]and abundant illustrations.

[00:45.95]At the time, many people

[00:49.45]believed William actually might

[00:51.20]have initiated 2 the SpanishAmerican War

[00:54.58]to encourage sales.

[00:56.99]According to one report,

[00:59.62]when one of his correspondents,

[01:01.81]Frederick Remington,

[01:03.88] requested to return from Havana,

[01:06.08]William responded

[01:07.83]that if Remington would

[01:09.47]furnish the pictures, William

[01:11.00]would furnish the war.

[01:13.29]He was once quoted in an editorial

[01:15.60] as saying, “Make the news

[01:18.87]thorough Print all the news.

[01:21.17]Condense it if necessary.

[01:24.23]Frequently it is better

[01:25.99]when intelligently condensed.”

[01:28.72]Another classic example of his influence

[01:31.79]occurred when, merely months

[01:34.30]after he advocated political assassination 3

[01:37.37] in an editorial,

[01:39.22] American President McKinley was assassinated



1 sensational
adj.使人感动的,非常好的,轰动的,耸人听闻的
  • Papers of this kind are full of sensational news reports.这类报纸满是耸人听闻的新闻报道。
  • Their performance was sensational.他们的演出妙极了。
2 initiated
n.暗杀;暗杀事件
  • The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
  • Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年,林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
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