AP一分钟时事06市场油价飞涨，公司总裁吃饱

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Top executives of the nation’s largest oil companies testified on the Hill Tuesday, telling Congress they know record fuel prices are hurting consumers. But this industry’s high profits are not to blame. Some critics though also point to record high bonuses the oil company’s CEO has been making in recent years.

Police in Georgia say a group of 3rd graders planed to attack their teacher. And these are the suppliers they planed to use to carry out the plot. As many as 9 young students were involved in the threat. 2 of them have been arrested.

A mental patient accused of slashing¹ a Manhattan psychotherapist to death with a meat clever has pleaded not guilty, and now tells police he was sexually abused by his grandmother and a stranger when he was 5 years old.

This tangled², torn parachute found buried last month is not the one used by hijacker³ D.B. Cooper when he bailed⁴ out of a plane over the Pacific Northwest in 1971. The FBI says it just looks like it was the right kind of parachute in any way.

Brand Tomas, the Associated Press.

1 slashing   

adj.尖锐的；苛刻的；鲜明的；乱砍的v.挥砍( slash的现在分词 )；鞭打；割破；削减

参考例句：

• Slashing is the first process in which liquid treatment is involved. 浆纱是液处理的第一过程。 来自辞典例句
• He stopped slashing his horse. 他住了手，不去鞭打他的马了。 来自辞典例句

2 tangled   

adj. 纠缠的，紊乱的 动词tangle的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• Your hair's so tangled that I can't comb it. 你的头发太乱了，我梳不动。
• A movement caught his eye in the tangled undergrowth. 乱灌木丛里的晃动引起了他的注意。

3 hijacker   

n.拦路抢劫者

参考例句：

• We needed a credibIe hijacker who knew the pIane. 也需要一个懂飞机的让人相信的劫机犯。
• I've never heard of a hijacker Ietting passengers deboard before. 以前也从没听说过有劫机犯让乘客离开。

4 bailed   

保释，帮助脱离困境( bail的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Fortunately the pilot bailed out before the plane crashed. 飞机坠毁之前，驾驶员幸运地跳伞了。
• Some water had been shipped and the cook bailed it out. 船里进了些水，厨师把水舀了出去。