美联社新闻一分钟 2005-12-28

1. Remains¹ found in the Iraqi city Karbala are thought to be from a mass grave from 1991 when Saddam Hussein's regime put down a Shiite uprising in the South.

2. Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disband their armed wing, effectively ending their thirty-year separatist insurgency² one year after the tsunami³ hit.

3. Rescue workers pull a fifth body from a train wreck⁴ two days after it derailed in northern Japan, following reports that more passengers could be trapped inside.

4. Inmates⁶ at a prison in Brazil's remote Amazon jungle hold more than two hundred people hostage, demanding the return of their leader from another prison.

5. And it's a mystery in Boise Idaho where hundreds of stuffed animals appeared under the Statehouse's Christmas tree with a card that only reads "Merry Christmas from Santa".

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. disband
disband disbands disbanding disbanded
If someone disbands a group of people, or if the group disbands, it stops operating as a single unit.
All the armed groups will be disbanded.
The rebels were to have fully⁷ disbanded by June the tenth.
V-ERG
= break up

2. wing
4 wing wings
A wing of an organization, especially a political organization, is a group within it which has a particular function or particular beliefs.
...the military wing of the African National Congress.
...the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
N-COUNT: with supp, usu supp N
= section
See also left-wing, right-wing.

3. inmate⁵
inmate inmates
The inmates of a prison or mental hospital are the prisoners or patients who are living there.
N-COUNT

4. statehouse
statehouse statehouses
In the United States, a statehouse is where the governor of a state has his or her offices, and where the state legislature meets.
N-COUNT

1 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

2 insurgency   

n.起义；暴动；叛变

参考例句：

• And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国，动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
• Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网

3 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。

4 wreck   

n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难

参考例句：

• Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
• No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。

5 inmate   

n.被收容者；(房屋等的)居住人；住院人

参考例句：

• I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
• The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。

6 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。