美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-08

1. The man accused of abducting¹ and killing² a teenager from Kansas has made a brief appearance in court. Edwin Hall is charged with murdering Kelsey Smith whose body was found in a wooded area yesterday.

2. The small country of Azerbaijan could play a major role in healing the rift³ between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Bush. Putin wants the U.S. to let that country play a role in the missile defense⁴ system it's building.

3. Paris Hilton is out of the LA County jail, but she's got to stay close to home. Authorities freed the socialite early this morning. They say she is suffering from an unspecified medical condition and have placed her under house arrest.

4. The National Archives has unearthed⁶ a missing note from the pages of history. Today they unveiled a handwritten note President Lincoln wrote in 1863, ordering his generals to pursue Robert E. Lee's forces following the battle of Gettysburg. The note was found just last month.

 

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. wooded: adj
A wooded area is covered in trees.

2. rift: n-count
A rift between people or countries is a serious quarrel or disagreement that stops them having a good relationship.

3. socialite: n-count
A socialite is a person who attends many fashionable upper-class social events and who is well known because of this.

4. unearth⁵: verb
If you say that someone has unearthed something, you mean that they have found it after it had been hidden or lost for some time.

1 abducting   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的现在分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• She was charged with abducting a six-month-old child. 她被控诱拐一个6个月大的孩子。
• At the same time, the rate of abducting foreigners is going down. 同时，发生在外国人身上的绑架案正在下降。

2 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。

3 rift   

n.裂口，隙缝，切口；v.裂开，割开，渗入

参考例句：

• He was anxious to mend the rift between the two men.他急于弥合这两个人之间的裂痕。
• The sun appeared through a rift in the clouds.太阳从云层间隙中冒出来。

4 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

5 unearth   

v.发掘，掘出，从洞中赶出

参考例句：

• Most of the unearth relics remain intact.大多数出土文物仍保持完整无损。
• More human remains have been unearthed in the north.北部又挖掘出了更多的人体遗骸。

6 unearthed   

出土的（考古）

参考例句：

• Many unearthed cultural relics are set forth in the exhibition hall. 展览馆里陈列着许多出土文物。
• Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed. 有些器皿在出土时已经残破。