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Key words English news, features of
diction, texts, registers
Abstract Words and phrases used in English news
texts are rich and varied. This paper discusses
the main features of diction in English news
texts proper nouns and numerals emerge in large
numbers abbreviations and news-style words
appear frequently
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modals and reporting verbs apply properly new
words and phrases come out in a steady stream
vivid and graphical words are quite appealing
colloquialisms and formal words phrases
co-exist harmoniously omission of words often
occurs news registers are of various kinds. The
paper illustrates these diction features,
explains the reasons of their appearance and
points out their functions.
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• 1.1????????
• (1)KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug.25----Dayna Lesli
  Curry and Heather Mercer are the two American aid
  workers whom the Taliban claim to have caught
  red handed, foisting their Christian faith on
  Afghan Muslims in a conspiracy to entice them
  away from Islam. ( New York Times , Aug. 26,
  2001)

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• (2) Bonn had also told Damascus it did not intend
  to impound the banks and expressed a desire to
  settle the issue cordially... ( New Zealand
  Herald, Feb.5, 1992)
• (3) Notwithstanding Afghanistan, notwithstanding
  the Olympic Games, Carter needs to talk to
  Brezhnev. (Fredrickson. English By Newspaper.
  Newbury House. P.56)

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1.2 ????????

• (4) During the term of this government, we have
  issued a total of 510 billion yuan of treasury
  bonds. With issuance of treasury bonds, we have
  managed to mobilize capital from the banks and
  other sectors. As a result, over two trillion
  yuan has been spent on various projects,
  including over 25,500 km of highways, of which
  8,000 km are expressways.

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• We have also built 4,000 km of trunk railways. If
  we also include the figures for the electrified
  railways and upgraded railways to make them
  double track, then the total mileage exceeds
  7,000km. We have also upgraded power grids in
  rural areas. The number of subscribers of fixed
  lines and mobile phones has reached 320 million.
  (Beijing Review, March 28, 2002, Bilingual Club,
  p. 2.)

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• 2.1 ???????
• 2.1.1 ??????????
• homo homosexual flu influenza scope
  microscope, radarscope, telescope Feb.
  February, Jan. January. b billion m
  million pc percent mgr. manager jr.
  junior sr senior.

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• 2.1.2 ??????????????
• BBC British Broadcasting Corporation GMT
  Greenwich Mean TimeUFO Unidentified Flying
  Object
• 2.1.3 ???????????
• APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation NATO
  the North Atlantic Treaty Organization UNESCO
  the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
  Cultural Organization.

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• 2. 2 ????????
• ??????bid??attempt or effort, ? probe ??
  investigate, ?cut??reduce or reduction, ? chief
  ?head ??commander, director ? governor, ?deal??
  bargain ? transaction

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• (5)Swiss Ban on Chinese Poultry Imports Lifted
  Under Conditions. (Beijing Review. April 25,
  2002, p.29)
• (6)Sino-U.S. Ties Winding Ahead. (ibid. Feb.
  21, p. 7)
• (7)How should we curb corruption ? (ibid. Feb.
  14, p.22)
• (8)Tornado Hits Florida (New York Times, Jun.
  23, p. 4)

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• accordagreement, aideassistant, foilthwart,
  hikeincrease, killmurder, pactagreement,
  parleynegotiate, plotconspire, postposition,
  quitresign, razedestroy, riftseparation,
  rowargument, shakeupreorganize, slaymurder,
  tourneytournament, vowpledge/promise,
  drivecampaign

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• 3.1 ???????
• (9) bad infrastructure will let you down.
  Unreliable servers, insufficient storage systems
  and disparate software applications can wreak
  havoc on your electronic business.
• (10)The plan should include three key
  elements. It must allow emissions trading in
  order to reduce costs and induce all nations to
  participate. It must ask developing countries to
  adopt a ceiling against which their reductions
  can be measured.

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• 3. 2 ????????
• . PRESIDENT Jiang Zemin told visiting French
  Defense Minister Charles Million on Monday that
  China will sign a major international treaty
  before the end of this year.
• Jiang said, China is ready to sign the UNs
  international Covenant on Economic, Social and
  Cultural Rights the Chinese Government has made
  efforts to achieve its peoples rights of
  subsistence and development, Jiang pointed out

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• Million expressed pleasure at hearing that China
  intends to sign the international Covenant
• Its normal and inevitable that different views
  on human rights exist in different countrieshe
  observed.
• Jiang emphasized that China has always held .
• Noting thatJiang said he hopes that France will
  continue to play a constructive role Calling it
  a wise and far-sighted decision, Jiang said it
  demonstrates that France has an .

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• 4.1 ??????
• ??????????????????????(?????)??????? angel (??),
  ???????basket (??),????(?????)bells (?),???
  blue collar (??),????dove(?),??? exotic
  (???),????hawk (?),???,???hiccup
  (??),??????hijack(????),????rap (??),??sex
  symbol (???),????source (??),?????? topless
  (???),?????umbrella (??),????

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• 4.2 ??????
• anti-pollution drive ?????,auto-timer?????,
  disinformation???, workaholic ???, geo-hygiene
  ??????, hyper-media??????, interurban bus ??????,
  intra-Nato affairs??????, multi-lateral
  diplomacy ????, neo-realism?????, non-government
  party ???, pre-marriage cohabit ????,
  post-doctoral fellow ??????, post-Mao China
  ???????, pro-hanging lawmaker ???????, pro-reform
  leader????????, technomania???, conflict-ridden
  region ????????

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• 4.3???????
• ??,1957?10?4?,????????????????,???????????????????
  ???????? Sputnik 1 Satellite? ??,???? -nik
  ???????????, ?????? (??,1994183-85)?? citynik
  ???,computernik????, peacenik ?????????,1969?7?20?
  ,??????(Apollo)????????,??????????????????????????
  ?moonwalk????, moon-craft????, Space
  Age????,space colony???????,space shuttle?????

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????????????????? euthanasia??? ,
eyelids-slicing operation ?????, vanity
surgery????, economic blast-off????, fluctuating
salary????, Fourth World????/????, fringe
benefit????, green card??, job-hopper???,
blanket-bombing?????, Blue Berets?????, contract
marriage????, honey trap???, sex pervert????,
bullet train?????, flyover???, fringe time?????,
prime time????, sound-and-light?????
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• 5. 1???????????
• (12)Struggling Kim ready to shake up cabinet
• President Kim Young-sam embarked on a major
  cabinet reshuffle yesterday to avoid being
  labelled a lameduck leader during his last year
  in office.
• Earlier, his State Council ministers offered to
  resign to give him a free rein in carrying out
  the shake-up. Leaders of the New Korea Party and
  top presidential aids offered to step down .Mr
  Kim who battled previous military rulers, took
  power in 1993, promising a corruption-free
  society. But the Government is lurching from one
  corruption scandal to another.

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• 5.2 ?????????
• (13) Witnesses said Mr Yeltsins face looked
  waxen, as if he were wearing make-up.( ibid.
  Feb.22, 1997)
• (14) The conditions for China to introduce an
  inheritance tax are getting more mature. ( AFP,
  Feb.14, 1997)
• (15) Tarimis an inhospitable, desert region in
  the far northwestern province of Xinjiang.(
  ibid.Dec.12, 1996)
• (16) the most notable buildings on the block
  were a sweep of picturesque stables

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• (17)The purchase of the turbines and generators
  for the project is expected to trigger a major
  war among leading suppliers of hydro-generators
  around the world, Qin said.
• If all goes according to plans, the turbines will
  start generating electricity in the year 2003.

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(18)tensions rose yesterday after Pakistan
defiantly test-fired a ballistic
missile Yesterdays test of a Ghauri ballistic
missile was hailed as a great success by
President Pervez Musharraf. God is great, he
said three times on national television. Pakistan
is ready for war, he said We do not want a
war, but we are not afraid. Let nobody have any
misunderstanding about this. ( Times, May 26,
2002)
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• (19)227 arrested in Chile as thousands take to
  street ( 227 people are arrested in Chile as
  thousands of people take to street) (20)
  Russia-Georgia Relations at Odds (
  Russia-Georgia Relations are at Odds) (21) They
  Have Reason to Smile ( They Have a Reason to
  Smile ) (22) U. S. Foreign Relations Act
  Unacceptable ( The U. S. Foreign Relations Act
  is Unacceptable ) (23) NPC wants to make sure
  pupils attend school ( NPC wants to make sure
  that pupils attend school) (24) U.S. , Japan In
  Pact on Electronics ( U.S. and Japan Are in
  Pact on Electronics )

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• (25) Features of the Three Chinese Spaceships
• Shenzhou One was a prototype of a manned
  spacecraft on which , for the first time, China
  applied the new technologies of vertical assembly
  building and tests of the combined body of a
  spacecraft and booster rockets, vertical
  transportation of the combined body to launching
  site, and long-distance monitoring and control of
  the launching. Based on its existing Telemetry
  Tracking and Command ( TTC ) network.

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• China established a new TTC network consisting
  of TTC ground stations and ships, which was up
  to international standards. It was also put into
  use for the first time during the Shenzhou One
  launch. After the Shenzhou One entered space,
  TTC ground stations and four Yuanwang tracking
  ships stationed on high seas around the world
  tracked the spacecraft mission, while making a
  series of scientific tests

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(26)THE Morning Star sends May Day greetings to
the working people throughout the world. This is
the 100th anniversary of May Day as a labor
movement festival a world socialist system
the working class state power working people
Socialist countries international differences
the heyday of imperialism colonial or
semi-colonial slavery imperialism political
independence colonialism neo-colonialism
the third world developed capitalist countries
the organized working class multinational
capitalism publicly-owned industries trade
unions class collaboration right-wing Labor
leaders progressive left the Communist Party
Marxism social development class struggle
organized working classSocialismdisunity
capitalisms problems the road to socialism.
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