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AS IT IS 2015-12-16 Instagram Husbands, A Harry¹ Potter Prequel, Los Angeles Schools Closed 爱发照片的丈夫、《哈利·波特》前传和洛杉矶学校关闭

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Are you an “Instagram Husband?”

“I’m basically a human selfie-stick.”

One of the actors has that to say in a parody² video about men who take pictures of their wives for use on Instagram.

The three-minute video is actually a skit³, or short, funny story, from a TV show called “The Mystery Hour” produced in Missouri. The skit makes fun of how men and women relate to each other in the social media era.

In the week since it first appeared on YouTube, “Instagram Husband” has been played over four million times.

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” trailer

Did you think you were finished with the world of Harry Potter and students at Hogwarts?

Think again.

J.K. Rowling wrote a book in 2001 in the style of a textbook featured in the Harry Potter series. It was called “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”

In the Harry Potter series, the book was written by “Newt Scamander.” That is the make-believe name Rowling used when she published the book.

The book details the study of 85 magical beasts around the world. Some of the “beasts” included in the book are dragons and flobberworms.

The movie’s trailer came out on Tuesday. In just a few hours, it was seen over one million times.

The movie follows Scamander and others during an episode in New York City in the 1920s. It features actors Eddie Redmayne and Colin Farrell.

The movie will come out in November of 2016.

Los Angeles schools closed

People who live near Los Angeles are understandably still worried about terrorism threats. The December shooting that killed 14 people happened in San Bernardino, only 96 kilometers away.

Today, the Los Angeles Unified⁴ School District closed all of its campuses after a terrorist threat was delivered via e-mail to some school board members.

The threat was not real. But as a precaution, the school district asked that 700,000 students not come to school.

The Twitter hashtag #LAUSD was used 50,000 times on Tuesday.

Similar threats were sent to school administrators⁵ in New York City, but schools were not closed there.

The closing proved to be a disruption for parents. They had to care for their children on an unscheduled day off. But most parents seemed to be supportive of the decision.

Words in This Story

disruption – n. the act of to interrupting the normal progress or activity of (something)

fantastic – adj. strange, unusual or unlikely

precaution – n. something that is done to prevent possible harm or trouble from happening in the future

beast – n. an animal

make-believe – adj. not real

trailer – n. a selected group of scenes that are shown to advertise a movie

1 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

2 parody   

n.打油诗文，诙谐的改编诗文，拙劣的模仿；v.拙劣模仿，作模仿诗文

参考例句：

• The parody was just a form of teasing.那个拙劣的模仿只是一种揶揄。
• North Korea looks like a grotesque parody of Mao's centrally controlled China,precisely the sort of system that Beijing has left behind.朝鲜看上去像是毛时代中央集权的中国的怪诞模仿，其体制恰恰是北京方面已经抛弃的。

3 skit   

n.滑稽短剧；一群

参考例句：

• The comic skIt sent up the foolishness of young men in love.那幅画把沉溺于热恋中的青年男子的痴态勾勒得滑稽可笑。
• They performed a skit to amuse the crowd.他们表演了一个幽默小品来娱乐观众。

4 unified   

(unify 的过去式和过去分词)； 统一的； 统一标准的； 一元化的

参考例句：

• The teacher unified the answer of her pupil with hers. 老师核对了学生的答案。
• The First Emperor of Qin unified China in 221 B.C. 秦始皇于公元前221年统一中国。

5 administrators   

n.管理者( administrator的名词复数 )；有管理（或行政）才能的人；（由遗嘱检验法庭指定的）遗产管理人；奉派暂管主教教区的牧师

参考例句：

• He had administrators under him but took the crucial decisions himself. 他手下有管理人员，但重要的决策仍由他自己来做。 来自辞典例句
• Administrators have their own methods of social intercourse. 办行政的人有他们的社交方式。 来自汉英文学 - 围城