predecessor, grievances, launder, animatronic, waterlogged,

In His Emphasis on Economy, Obama Is Looking to History

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JIM RUTENBERG

Barack Obama is drawing on techniques from his campaign and lessons from predecessors as he seeks to shape public attitudes about the economic downturn.

Tiananmen Now Seems Distant to China’s Students By SHARON LaFRANIERE
Disinclined to protest, students also lack the economic grievances that motivated their predecessors in 1989.

Animatronic Obama Going to Disney World With High-Tech StyleBy JACQUES STEINBERG 

President Obama lent his own voice to “Robobama,” which will appear in the revamped Hall of Presidents exhibit.

In a Waterlogged City, Operatic Puppets and Shadows on a Curtain

John Hodgkiss

William Kentridge’s video on the Fenice curtain in Venice.

a series of house purchases 買一系列的屋子來洗錢

《中英對照讀新聞》Corrupt China official betrayed by leaky toilet 漏水馬桶敗露中國貪官的不法      

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A corrupt Chinese official has been condemned to death after a leaky toilet led to the discovery of his hoard of illicit cash, Xinhua news agency reported.

新華社報導，一名中國貪官在一個漏水馬桶使其黑錢藏金處曝光後，已被判處死刑。

Yan Dabin, a former director of transport for Wushan County near the southwestern city of Chongqing, was sentenced for taking bribes totalling 22.3 million yuan from road building companies, Xinhua said.

近西南大城重慶的巫山縣前交通局長晏大彬，是因收取築路公司共2230萬人民幣的賄款而被判刑，新華社指出。

He was arrested after a Chongqing resident called a police station in January to complain that water was trickling through his ceiling from a vacant apartment above.

一月間，一名重慶市民打電話到警局投訴，指水從樓上一間空公寓滲過他家天花板涓滴而下後，晏大彬落網。

A police officer went to investigate and in the bathroom of the apartment, which was owned by Yan, he found a leaking toilet and eight waterlogged cardboard boxes containing 9.4 million yuan.

一名警員前往調查，並在這間晏大彬所屬的公寓浴室內發現一個正在漏水的馬桶，以及8個泡了水、裝有940萬人民幣的紙箱。

Yan’s wife Fu Shangfang was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for five years, after she was found guilty of laundering illicit cash through a series of house purchases, Xinhua said.

晏妻傅尚芳因透過連串家用品購置來非法洗錢，而被判有罪，她被處以3年徒刑、緩刑5年，新華社說。

新聞辭典

betray︰背叛、洩漏。例句︰This house betrays its age.（這房子顯得很老舊。）

bribe︰動詞為行賄，名詞為賄賂物。例句︰He had been bribed into silence.（他被收買封口。）

launder︰洗滌、洗錢、掩飾（醜行）。例如︰launder arms traffic in defiance of the U.N. embargo（無視聯合國禁運令的變相武器交易）。

waterlogged

adjective

(of land) full of water and almost covered by a layer of it, or (of a boat) full of water and therefore unable to keep moving or floating:

Unfortunately the game was cancelled because of a waterlogged UK pitch/US field.

an·i·ma·tron·ics (ăn'ə-mə-trŏn'ĭks) 

n. (used with a sing. verb)

The technology employing electronics to animate motorized puppets.

[ANIMA(TION) + (ELEC)TRONICS.]

animatronic an'i·ma·tron'ic adj.

predecessor
noun [C]
someone who had a job or a position before someone else, or something which comes before another thing in time or in a series:
My predecessor worked in this job for twelve years.
The latest Ferrari is not only faster than its predecessors but also more comfortable.