美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2007-12-21

1. Chaos¹ broke out at New Orleans City Hall between police and demonstrators during the council meeting over public housing. Protesters want to stop the city from tearing down the buildings. Officers use chemical sprays and stun² guns to restrain demonstrators.

2. Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is out of the hospital. Doctors gave him the all-clear after the candidate spent the night in a St. Louis hospital with flu-like symptoms. The former New York City mayor is leading in the national polls. But Mike Huckabee is challenging his standing³.

3. Aruban prosecutors⁴ say one of the suspects in the Natalee Holloway case wrote in the Internet chat session that the American teen is dead. The lawyer would not say which suspect wrote that. Three primary suspects were re-arrested earlier on what police said was more evident but released this week. Holloway disappeared in May of 2005.

4. David Letterman and striking writers will meet tomorrow to try to reach an agreement to bring the writers back to work for the late show. The strike has brought shows to a close, including all of the late-night talk shows. But Letterman is hoping to strike a deal separate from the television and movie studios.

1 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

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 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

4 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。