美联社新闻一分钟 2005-10-23

1. Hurricane Wilma slams Mexico's Caribbean coastline for a second day in a row, ripping away storefronts and peeling back roofs.

2. Amid more violence elsewhere in Iraq, US forces report killing¹ 20 insurgents² sheltering foreign militants³ near the border with Syria.

3. India proposes allowing Pakistani quake victims to cross the ceasefire line in Kashmir and get aid at relief camps it's setting up.

4. Damascus disputes UN report implicating⁴ Syrian and Lebanese officials in the murder of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

5. And authorities in Croatia begin killing thousands of domestic birds, one of the latest fronts in the global fight against avian flu

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. storefront
1 storefront storefronts
A storefront is the outside part of a shop which faces the street, including the door and windows. (mainly AM; in BRIT usually use shop front)
N-COUNT

2. peel
3 peel peels peeling peeled
If you peel off something that has been sticking to a surface or if it peels off, it comes away from the surface.
One of the kids was peeling plaster off the wall.
It took me two days to peel off the labels.
Paint was peeling off the walls.
The wallpaper was peeling away close to the ceiling.
...an unrenovated bungalow⁵ with slightly peeling blue paint.
V-ERG

3. front
7 front fronts
In a war, the front is a line where two opposing armies are facing each other.
Sonja's husband is fighting at the front.
N-COUNT: usu the N in sing

See also front line

1 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

2 insurgents   

n.起义，暴动，造反( insurgent的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网

3 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

4 implicating   

vt.牵涉，涉及（implicate的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• He was in the public dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody. 他站在被告席上，什么都招认，什么人都咬。 来自英汉文学
• No one would have had me get out of the scrape by implicating an old friend. 无论什么人都不能叫我为了自己摆脱困难便把一个老朋友牵累到这案子里去。 来自辞典例句

5 bungalow   

n.平房，周围有阳台的木造小平房

参考例句：

• A bungalow does not have an upstairs.平房没有上层。
• The old couple sold that large house and moved into a small bungalow.老两口卖掉了那幢大房子，搬进了小平房。