美联社新闻一分钟 2007-02-10

1. The mother of Anna Nicole Smith blames drugs for her daughter's death, saying she was too drugged up. A medical examiner in Broward County, Florida performed an autopsy¹ Friday, trying to determine what killed the 39-year-old Playboy playmate and model.

2. The snow keeps coming in parts of New York State - 88 inches in some towns in Oswego County and maybe 100 inches in certain spot. Another 2 feet of snow is possible.

3. A violent clash between Muslim worshippers and Israeli police at a Jerusalem holy site. Worshippers threw stones, bottles and trash and police fired stun² grenades and tear gas to disperse³ the crowd. They are upset about renovation⁴ work Israelis are doing nearby.

4. And in Brazil, a man rescues his 8-year-old grandson from a 16-foot long, 77-pound snake. The anaconda wrapped itself around the boy. The grandfather beat the snake with rocks and a knife for half an hour. The boy got 21 stitches in his chest where he was bitten.

 

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. autopsy: n-count
An autopsy is an examination of a dead body by a doctor who cuts it open in order to try to discover the cause of death.

2. anaconda: n-count
An anaconda is a large non-venomous arboreal⁵ snake of tropical South America that kills its prey⁶ by suffocating⁷ it in its coils.

3. stitch: n-count
A stitch is a piece of thread that has been used to sew the skin of a wound together.

1 autopsy   

n.尸体解剖；尸检

参考例句：

• They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
• A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。

2 stun   

vt.打昏，使昏迷，使震惊，使惊叹

参考例句：

• When they told me she had gone missing I was totally stunned.他们告诉我她不见了时，我当时完全惊呆了。
• Sam stood his ground and got a blow that stunned him.萨姆站在原地，被一下打昏了。

3 disperse   

vi.使分散；使消失；vt.分散；驱散

参考例句：

• The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。
• The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。

4 renovation   

n.革新，整修

参考例句：

• The cinema will reopen next week after the renovation.电影院修缮后，将于下星期开业。
• The building has undergone major renovation.这座大楼已进行大整修。

5 arboreal   

adj.树栖的；树的

参考例句：

• Man was evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.人大概是从住在树上的祖先进化而来的。
• Koala is an arboreal Australian marsupial.考拉是一种澳大利亚树栖有袋动物。

6 prey   

n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨

参考例句：

• Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
• The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。

7 suffocating   

a.使人窒息的

参考例句：

• After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating.和父母呆了几个星期后，她感到自己毫无自由。
• That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room.这样好些了，我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。