美联社新闻一分钟 2006-03-04

1. President Bush is spending the night at a heavily fortified¹ US diplomatic compound in Pakistan. The president who just wrapped up a trip to India, plans to meet Saturday with Pakistan's president and ally in the war on terror.

2. Angry crowds took to the streets to protest Bush's visit. Some demonstrators burned a picture of President Bush, others chanted slogans like "killer², go back."

3. She'll be using a pay phone to make calls. Candice Martenize, who's known as the cell phone bandit, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for robbing 4 Northern Virginia banks in 2005. The 20-year-old college student apologized to the tellers.

4. Heavy rains triggered flash floods and a small landslide⁴ in Oahu, Hawaii. The area has been pounded with nearly a foot of rain in the past 24 hours. Some area of highways were closed because of high water and debris⁵ blocking the road.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. fortify⁶ : verb [T]
to strengthen something, especially in order to protect it:
e.g. They hurriedly fortified the village with barricades⁷ of carts, tree trunks and whatever came to hand

2. compound : noun [C]
an enclosed area which contains a group of buildings:
e.g. The embassy compound has been closed to the public because of a bomb threat.

3. pay phone :noun [C]
a public telephone which is made to operate by putting coins into it

4. bandit :noun [C]
an armed thief, especially one belonging to a group that attack people travelling through the countryside

5. teller :noun [C]
a person employed in a bank to receive and pay out money

1 fortified   

adj. 加强的

参考例句：

• He fortified himself against the cold with a hot drink. 他喝了一杯热饮御寒。
• The enemy drew back into a few fortified points. 敌人收缩到几个据点里。

2 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

3 tellers   

n.（银行）出纳员( teller的名词复数 )；（投票时的）计票员；讲故事等的人；讲述者

参考例句：

• The tellers were calculating the votes. 计票员正在统计票数。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The use of automatic tellers is particularly used in large cities. 在大城市里，还特别投入了自动出纳机。 来自辞典例句

4 landslide   

n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票；一面倒的胜利

参考例句：

• Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
• An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。

5 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

6 fortify   

v.强化防御，为…设防；加强，强化

参考例句：

• This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
• This treaty forbade the United States to fortify the canal.此条约禁止美国对运河设防。

7 barricades   

路障，障碍物( barricade的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The police stormed the barricades the demonstrators had put up. 警察冲破了示威者筑起的街垒。
• Others died young, in prison or on the barricades. 另一些人年轻时就死在监牢里或街垒旁。