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Classical music fans have been captivated by a very rare fun today. Two new Mozart compositions have been found in the musician’s hometown of Salzburg. An Australian institute dedicated to the study of Mozart says it has long been in possession of the two piano pieces, but it’s only now attributed them to the young Wolfgang Amadeus.

 

Australia’s youth are often told to take a good long look at themselves and that’s just what you must indeed take out this year’s Youth Self-Portrait Prize. The 20-year-old produced a multimedia work, showing a picture of his head filmed on a high definition LCD TV screen. The judges said they were impressed by the depth of his work.

 

American actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has braved the battlefields of Iraq. “I’m always just honored to spend time with everybody who spends time in military, and so I was allowed to come and I’m privileged to be here.”After posing for photos with US troops, Jolie visited a temporary settlement for internally displaced people in the northwestern Baghdad.

 

And cult movie director Quentin Tarantino has unveiled his new project in London. Inglourious Basterds’ star Brad Pitt contains Tarantino’s usual spread on violence and humor.

 

And that’s ABC’s entertainment news.

 

• New Words
• Pronunciation
• Simple Meaning

• captivate
• /k'æptɪveɪt/
• If you are captivated by someone or something, you find them fascinating and attractive.

• brave
•  
• If you brave unpleasant or dangerous conditions, you deliberately expose yourself to them, usually in order to achieve something.

• privileged
• /ˈprɪvəlɪdʒd/
• Someone who is privileged has an advantage or opportunity that most other people do not have, often because of their wealth or high social class.

• pose
•  
• If you pose for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you.

• settlement
•  
• A settlement is a place where people have come to live and have built homes.

• internally displaced
•  
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are people forced to flee（逃离） their homes but who, unlike refugees, remain within their country's borders.

• cult movie
•  
• A cult film (also known as a cult movie/picture or a cult classic) is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans.

• unveiled
• [ʌnˈveil]
• If you unveil a plan, new product, or some other thing that has been kept secret, you introduce it to the public.

• Mozart
•  
• 莫扎特

• Wolfgang Amadeus
•  
• 莫扎特

• Youth Self-Portrait Prize
• /ˈpɔːtreɪt/
• 青年自画像奖

• UN Goodwill Ambassador
• /æmˈbæsədə(r)/
• 联合国慈善大使

• Baghdad
•  
• 巴格达

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/cnxyang/archive/2009/11/15/1602577.html