Crime News in Chicago
芝加哥犯罪新聞
Introduction
This report is about a robbery on a bus and a hate crime in a park.
本報告關於一起巴士搶劫案以及一起在公園發生的仇恨犯罪。
Main Body
On Saturday night, three men tried to steal from a 54-year-old man on a bus. The man fought back with a sharp object. He cut his hand. He went to the hospital, but he is okay now. The police caught the three men.
週六晚上，三名男子在公車上企圖搶劫一名 54 歲男子。該男子使用利器反擊，導致手部受傷。他前往醫院就醫，目前情況穩定。警方已逮捕該三名男子。
In another story, police arrested a 21-year-old man named Merlin Lu. He burned a cross in Grant Park on June 9. The police saw him in a photo. He told the police he did it.
在另一起案件中，警方逮捕了一名 21 歲名為 Merlin Lu 的男子。他在 6 月 9 日於 Grant Park 焚燒一個十字架。警方透過照片認出他。他向警方承認所為。
Merlin Lu has eight charges. Some are very serious crimes. These are hate crimes.
Merlin Lu 面臨八項指控。其中部分為非常嚴重的罪行。這些均屬仇恨犯罪。
Conclusion
The police caught the robbers and the man who committed the hate crime.
警方逮捕了搶匪以及該名犯下仇恨犯罪的男子。
Vocabulary Learning
🕰️ Talking About the Past
Look at how the story tells us things that already happened. We add -ed to the end of the action word.
- burn → burned
- arrest → arrested
Wait! Some words change completely. You must memorize these special ones:
- go went
- tell told
- do did
- catch caught
👤 Describing People
In English, we put the age before the person using dashes. It acts like one big adjective.
Example:
a 54-year-old man
(Correct: a 21-year-old man ) (Wrong: a man 21 years old )