news
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(a) [U] new or fresh information; report(s) of recent events 消息; 新聞; 新聞報(bào)道
What's the latest news? 有什麼最新消息?
Have you heard the news? Mary has got a job! 你聽說了嗎? !
I want to hear all your news. 我想聽聽你的新鮮事.
items/pieces/bits of news 幾項(xiàng)新聞
It's news to me, ie I haven't heard about it before. 這事我頭一次聽說.
She is always in the news, ie Her doings are regularly reported in the newspapers, on TV, etc. 她一向是新聞人物(報(bào)紙、 電視等經(jīng)常報(bào)道她的事).
The news that the enemy were near alarmed everybody. 敵軍迫近的消息攪得人心惶惶.
Have you any news of (ie Have you heard anything about) where she is staying? 你有她現(xiàn)在何處的消息嗎?
[attrib 作定語]
a news item, report, broadcast, bulletin, etc 新聞項(xiàng)目、 報(bào)道、 廣播、 簡(jiǎn)報(bào)等
the news media, ie newspapers, TV, radio, etc 新聞媒介(報(bào)紙、 電視、 無線電等).
(b) the news [sing v]
regular broadcast of the latest news on the radio and TV (無線電及電視的)定時(shí)新聞廣播
Here is the news, eg said by a newsreader at the start of a broadcast. 現(xiàn)在報(bào)告新聞.
The news lasts half an hour. 新聞節(jié)目播送半小時(shí).
2 [U] person, thing, event, etc that is (interesting enough to be) reported as news (可當(dāng)作新聞內(nèi)容的)人, 物, 事
When a man bites a dog, that's news! 人要是咬了狗, 那才是新聞!
Pop stars are always news. 唱流行歌曲的歌星什麼時(shí)候都是新聞人物.
3 (idm 習(xí)語) break the `news (to sb) be the first to tell sb about sth, esp sth exciting or unwelcome 最先(向某人)道出實(shí)情(尤指令人驚異或不悅的事). ,no news is `good news (saying 諺) if there were bad news we would hear it, so since we have heard nothing we can assume that all is well 沒有消息就是好消息.