美联社新闻一分钟 2006-04-02

1. Freed hostage Jill Carroll is one step closer to returning home. The freelance journalist is expected to land at Logan International Airport in Boston late tomorrow morning. Carroll was snatched off a street in Baghdad in January. She was released by her captors Thursday.

2. Anti-war protesters are following Condoleezza Rice as she travels around England. The crowd shouted as the secretary of state met with Muslim leaders. Rice later told reporters that, to a certain extent, the protesters made her point that "democracy is the only system that allows people to be heard and to be heard peacefully".

3. Thousands of demonstrators also took to the streets of New York. The massive group marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest a national immigration reform bill.

4. Check out these colorful bovine¹s. Over 100 fiberglass cows are on parade in Buenos Aires. The artwork will be exhibited through June, then sold at auction², the money going to charity.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. freelance :adjective, adverb
doing particular pieces of work for different organizations, rather than working all the time for a single organization:
e.g. Most of the journalists I know work freelance.

2. snatch :verb [T]
to take something or someone away by force:
The six-year-old girl was snatched from a playground and her body was found two days later.

3. bovine :noun [C]
an animal belonging to the same genus as cattle

4. fiberglass : noun [U]
a strong light material made by twisting together small fibres of glass and plastic, used especially for structures such as cars and boats:玻璃纤维

5. auction:noun [C or U]
a usually public sale of goods or property, where people make higher and higher bids (= offers of money) for each item, until the item is sold to the person who will pay most:
e.g. The house and its contents are being put up for auction

1 bovine   

adj.牛的；n.牛

参考例句：

• He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass andand munching,like some bovine creature.他丢开包袱，爬到灯心草丛里，像牛似的大咬大嚼起来。
• He was a gentle,rather bovine man.他是一位文雅而反应迟钝的人。

2 auction   

n.拍卖；拍卖会；vt.拍卖

参考例句：

• They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
• They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。