美联社新闻一分钟 2006-10-28

1. Condolences came from the White House Friday to the U. S. Forest Service following the deaths of four firefighters in a California wildfire. The spokesman for the President said in a phone conversation Mr. Bush told officials how sorry he was.

2. Human rights advocates have raised a red flag after Vice¹ President Dick Cheney's remarks in an interview about a controversial interrogation technique. The White House says Mr. Cheney's remarks were not condoning² the use of waterboarding on terror suspects to make a suspect believe he or she will drown.

3. Police now say prior to his execution, serial³ killer⁴ Danny Rolling gave his spiritual adviser⁵ a confession⁶ note. In it, he admits to three 1989 murders in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.

4. Michael J Fox says he was not acting⁷ in political ads that show him rocking back and forth⁸. He has Parkinson's disease and was making pictures for political candidates who support embryonic⁹ stem cell research.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. condolence: n-plural
When you offer or express your condolences to someone, you express your sympathy for them because one of their friends or relatives has died recently.

2. red flag: n-count
If you refer to something as a red flag, you mean that it acts as a danger signal.

3. confession: n-count
A confession is a signed statement by someone in which they admit that they have committed a particular crime.

4. embryonic: adj.
An embryonic process, idea, organization, or organism is one at a very early stage in its development.

5. stem cell: n-count 干细胞
A stem cell is an unspecialized cell that gives rise to a specific specialized¹⁰ cell, such as a blood cell.

1 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 condoning   

v.容忍，宽恕，原谅( condone的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• I'm not condoning what he did, all right? 我并不是宽恕他的所作所为，好吗？ 来自电影对白
• Communist Party conservatives abhor the idea of condoning explicIt'sex. 党内的保守势力痛恨对赤裸性爱内容的宽容。 来自互联网

3 serial   

n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的

参考例句：

• A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
• Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

4 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

5 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

6 confession   

n.自白，供认，承认

参考例句：

• Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
• The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。

7 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

8 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

9 embryonic   

adj.胚胎的

参考例句：

• It is still in an embryonic stage.它还处于萌芽阶段。
• The plan,as yet,only exists in embryonic form.这个计划迄今为止还只是在酝酿之中。

10 specialized   

adj.专门的，专业化的

参考例句：

• There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
• These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。