美联社新闻一分钟 2006-10-20

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1. An elderly priest is acknowledging that he was naked in saunas with Mark Foley decades ago, but denies having a sexual relationship with the former congressman¹, calling a report in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune exaggerated.

2. Dozens were killed in two separate suicide bombings in Iraq. In Kirkuk, the target was a local bank; in Mosul, a major police station was attacked.

3. In an accident similar to the one that killed "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, an 81-year-old Florida man is in critical condition after a stingray flop²ped into his boat. Surgeons removed a foot-long barb⁴ from his heart.

4. And a dramatic video from southern Turkey where fierce tornadoes⁵ swirled⁶ about in the open sea as unfazed tourists watched the scene unfold from shore.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. stingray: n-count刺鳐
A stingray is a type of large flat fish with a long tail which it can use as a weapon.

2. flop: verb
If something flops⁷ onto something else, it falls there heavily or untidily.

3. faze: verb
If something fazes you, it surprises, shocks, or frightens you, so that you do not what to do. (INFORMAL)
unfazed: adj.
=calm, composed, unperturbed, untroubled