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Qianjin (上海前进进修学院)will hold its autumn In order to better help the student crack the GRE, the GRE teacher from Qianjin e-mails hundreds of New York Daily News with annotations to his students. So, taking a GRE prerparation course can not only help one to crack the GRE, but also get one better prepared for any other kind of English exam, as, the New TOEFL, SAT, IELTS (雅思) and Advanced English Interpretation Test. New York Daily News Wedding punches KO (=knock out) bliss (extreme happiness) 婚礼大打出手 幸福彻底毁灭 BY TRACY CONNOR DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, September 15th, 2005 The bride wore white, and the groom wore handcuffs (新郎带着手铐). Eleven members of a Westchester wedding party, including the groom, wound up in jail (结果锒铛入狱) after brawling (争吵，打架) with another bridal party and cops at a hotel bar, police said yesterday. Instead of spending the night in wedded bliss with bride Erica Cancel, Joseph Fortunato Jr., 29, cooled his heels in a White Plains lockup (临时拘留所) with his dad, brother, new father-in-law and other guests. [cool one’s heels wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilely; be kept waiting 空等；坐冷板凳] "It was pure bedlam," White Plains police spokesman Martin Gleeson said of the Saturday morning melee. [bedlam n. a place or situation of noisy uproar and confusion. 混乱喧闹的场所(或场面) melee n. a general, confused hand-to-hand fight 混战；大打出手] The trouble started when Fortunato's wedding party arrived at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in White Plains, where a group from another wedding was relaxing in the bar. Apparently, a member of the wedding party in the lounge (休息厅) mistook Fortunato's best man, his brother Alfonse, for their missing photographer and confronted him. Alfonse, 26, of Katonah, took umbrage and "clocked" his antagonist (给了对手一下子)- sparking a free-for-all (激起了一场混战), police said. [best man the bridegroom's chief attendant at a wedding (婚礼上的)男傧相 umbrage n. resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult 怨恨；愤怒；生气] "Everybody's fighting everybody," Gleeson said. "And both brides are kind of walking around helpless like, 'This is my wedding? I can't believe this is happening!'" At least 10 police officers responded, and when they arrested the groom, other members of the Fortunato group went ballistic and started fighting the cops. Eleven suspects - all from the Fortunato wedding - were charged with first-degree riot, a felony (重罪)that carries up to four years in prison, resisting arrest (拒捕) and disorderly conduct. [go ballistic Slang to become very angry or irrational. <俚> 发怒；失去理智] Sebastian Russo, 28, of Staten Island, also was charged with criminal mischief for kicking the glass out of a hotel door as he was escorted to a squad car(警车), cops said. The combatants were released on bail (保释金) the next day. Police said the hotel sustained about $2,000 worth of damage, but no one was seriously hurt. "We believe the event may have been alcohol-driven," Gleeson said. |