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想开个帖子记录一下新闻中读到的单词或词组。 会不定期更新，每次一两句吧，希望能坚持下去。  17/04/2013 [1] SIX children were taken to hospital after their bus was involved in a three-vehicle pile-up at North Sydney today. 今天在北悉尼，一辆公车卷入一起三辆车连环相撞的车祸，车上有六名孩子受伤。 【pile-up】 1.N-COUNT多车相撞事故A pile-up is a road accident in which a lot of vehicles crash into each other. [2] THIEVES have failed in their bid to steal an ATM during a brazen ram raid just metres from Martin Place in the CBD this morning. 今天早上在悉尼市中心的Martin Place区，匪徒肆无忌惮地飞车抢劫（一家便利店内的）自动提款机，但是未能成功。 【ram raid】 1).N-COUNT（以开车撞碎商店玻璃的方式进行的）飞车抢劫 A ram-raid is the crime of using a car to drive into and break a shop window in order to steal things from the shop. A shop in Station Road was the target of a ram-raid early yesterday. 昨天清晨车站路的一家商店遭到了飞车抢劫。 2).VERB（以开车撞碎商店玻璃的方式进行）飞车抢劫If people ram-raid, they use a car to drive into and break a shop window in order to steal things from the shop. The kids who are joyriding and ram-raiding are unemployed. 那些开偷来的车狂飙和驾车抢劫的年轻人都是无业游民。 【brazen】 1.ADJ-GRADED无所顾忌的；肆无忌惮的If you describe a person or their behaviour as brazen, you mean that they are very bold and do not care what other people think about them or their behaviour. 新闻原文链接 http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au ... reuy9-1226622111416 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 16/04/2013 [1] The 62-year-old man, believed to be from Melbourne, died instantly after being shot at point blank range on Monday morning when a group of up to 10 men confronted them at a coffee plantation on the outskirts of Mt Hagen. 周一早晨，62岁的墨尔本男子在Mt Hagen郊区的咖啡种植园，遇到一伙十余人的匪徒，被匪徒近距离枪击，该男子当即死亡。 【at point-blank range】 在近距离 From Free Dictionary if someone is shot at point-blank range, they are shot from a very short distance away e.g. The killers walked into the bar and shot him at point-blank range. From Wikipedia: In forensics and popular usage, point-blank range has come to mean extremely close range (i.e., target within about a meter (3 ft) of the muzzle at moment of discharge but not close enough to be an actual contact shot). 【outskirts】 n.郊外；市郊，郊区；从外围经过；边缘 【coffee plantation】 咖啡种植园 新闻原文见下链接： http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/n ... reuy9-1226621381443 |
