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1.New York’s Jewish community as well as a mediation1 center in Virginia are in mourning after they both lost members of their community in the terror attacks in India. A rabbi from New York and his wife were killed at a Jewish center in Mumbai while a Virginian man and his daughter were gunned down at a hotel there.
2.Indian commandos are still battling militants2 holed up in a hotel in Mumbai. Gunfire could be heard through the night there as they tried to flush out the remaining terrorists.
3.It's been a rather bleak3 black Friday. At least three people have been killed at shopping centers in the U.S. A Wal-Mart employee died after he was trampled5 by overanxious customers in New York and two people have been killed in a shooting at a Toys “R” Us in California.
4.The oldest woman in the world has died. Edna Parker was 115 when she passed away Wednesday at a nursing home in Indiana. The title now falls to a Portuguese6 woman who was born back in 1893.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.mediation center: n.
A mediation center offers the service of facilitation to assist others to discuss their conflicts and to agree on ways to resolve them
2.rabbi: n.
Rabbi a scholar qualified7 to interpret Jewish law
3.commando: n.
a soldier who is specially8 trained to make quick attacks into enemy areas
4.bleak: adj.
without anything to make you feel happy or hopeful
to step heavily on something, so that you crush it with your feet
6.Toys “R” Us: n.
Toys "R" Us is the leading kids store for toys, video games, baby products, etc.
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激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 ) | |
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adj.(天气)阴冷的;凄凉的;暗淡的 | |
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踩( trample的过去式和过去分词 ); 践踏; 无视; 侵犯 | |
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