美联社新闻一分钟 2005-08-30

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1. Hurricane Katrina plowed² into the Gulf³ Coast at daybreak Monday with shrieking⁵ , 145-mph winds and blinding rain.

2. Katrina ripped 2 holes in the curved roof of the Louisiana Superdome, letting in rain as thousands of storm refugees huddled⁷ inside.

3. President Bush considered the decision on whether to release some oil from US petroleum⁸ reserves to help refiners hurt by Hurricane Katrina.

4. Thousands of Sunni demonstrators rallied in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit to denounce Iraq's new constitution. The demonstrations⁹ came a day after negotiators finished the new charter without the endorsement¹⁰ of Sunni Arabs.

5. And for the first time in a long time, rock music dominated the MTV Video Music Awards with Green Day winning 7 moonmen.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. plough into
1 plough into ploughs into; ploughing into; ploughed into
If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
PHR-V (AM) plow¹

2. shriek⁴
1 shriek shrieks¹¹ shrieking shrieked¹²
When someone shrieks, they make a short, very loud cry, for example because they are suddenly surprised, are in pain, or are laughing.
She shrieked and leapt from the bed.
Miranda shrieked with laughter.
VB

3. blinding
1 blinding
A blinding light is extremely bright.
The doctor worked busily beneath the blinding lights of the delivery room.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
= dazzling

4. huddle⁶
2 huddle huddles¹³ huddling¹⁴ huddled
If people huddle together or huddle round something, they stand, sit, or lie close to each other, usually because they all feel cold or frightened.
Tired and lost, we huddled together.
...strangers huddling together for warmth...
Hundreds of people huddled around a single transistor¹⁵ radio listening to the announcement.
The survivors¹⁶ spent the night huddled around bonfires.
VB
= cluster