美联社新闻一分钟 2006-01-31

1. Osama bin¹ Laden’s top deputy is calling President Bush a butcher in a new videotape airing on Al-Jazeera. It’s the first video from Ayman al-Zawahri since a US air strike in Pakistan missed him earlier this month.

2. ABC journalists Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt are very seriously injured but stable, according to the commander of a US military hospital. The two arrived at a facility in Germany on Monday after being wounded Sunday in a roadside bombing in Iraq.

3. Kidnapped US journalist Jill Carroll has appeared in a new video on Al-Jazeera. In it, she's weeping and appealing for the release of women Iraqi prisoners.

4. A baby girl found floating inside a plastic bag has miraculously² survived abandonment in Brazil. This amateur video shows the infant being rescued Saturday by two men who use a long tree branch to pull the bag out of a park lake. Doctors have released the two-month-old, and say she is in good condition

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. butcher : noun [C]
someone who murders a lot of people, especially in a cruel way

2. weep : verb [I or T] wept, wept LITERARY
to cry, especially because you feel very sad
e.g. People in the street wept with joy when peace was announced.

3. miraculously : adverb
effectively or surprisingly or difficult to believe:
e.g. Miraculously, the guards escaped death.

4. abandonment : noun [U]
The abandonment of a place, thing, or person is the act of leaving it permanently³ or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
e.g.The abandonment of the island followed nuclear tests in the area

1 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

2 miraculously   

ad.奇迹般地

参考例句：

• He had been miraculously saved from almost certain death. 他奇迹般地从死亡线上获救。
• A schoolboy miraculously survived a 25 000-volt electric shock. 一名男学生在遭受2.5 万伏的电击后奇迹般地活了下来。

3 permanently   

adv.永恒地，永久地，固定不变地

参考例句：

• The accident left him permanently scarred.那次事故给他留下了永久的伤疤。
• The ship is now permanently moored on the Thames in London.该船现在永久地停泊在伦敦泰晤士河边。