美联社新闻一分钟 2006-01-30

1. ABC "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt are in stable condition, following surgery at a US hospital in Iraq. The journalists who were seriously injured Sunday during a roadside attack near Baghdad are expected to be flown to medical facilities in Germany overnight.

2. Crews in southern Poland are preparing to tear down the site of Saturday's deadly roof collapse¹. At least 66 people were killed, 160 others were injured when the roof of an exhibition hall caved in. A nation state of mourning has been declared.

3. Armed demonstrators took to the streets of Gaza city. This group of Fatah supporters is showing their support for their party which lost to Hamas during the recent Palestinian parliamentary elections. It comes after several days of violent protests in the region.

4. Chaos², when the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein resumes Sunday. One co-defendant was dragged out of the courtroom. A defence lawyer was ejected, and then the former Iraqi leader himself was removed for refusing his new court-appointed defence lawyers

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. anchor : noun [C]
someone who reads the news on TV and introduces news reports
e.g. Dan Rather, anchor of the CBC Evening News

2. cave in : FALL) phrasal verb
If a ceiling, roof or other structure caves in, it breaks and falls into the space below:
e.g. Because of the explosion, the roof of the building caved in, trapping several people

3. eject : verb
to force someone to leave a particular place:
e.g. A number of football fans had been ejected from the bar for causing trouble.

1 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

2 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。