2016-04-19 Flashcards
It’s terrible how advertisers are going after kids.
go after kids - influence kids; get your message to kids
market to a lucrative demographic
demographic - a group of people who have same characteristics
Kids are bombarded with toy commercials.
be bomBARDed with - advertisers bombard me with commercials.
Commercials are a fact of life.
a fact of life - something that must be accepted as true and unchanging, even if it is unpleasant.
“it is a fact of life that young girls write horrible things about people in their diaries”
They are more susceptible to false advertising.
susceptible to; false advertising
I’ve been in the courtroom watching the sentencing of that murderer.
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The one who failed to get the charges reduced through a plea agreement. During the trial, her attorneys tried to show that there were mitigating circumstances, but the judge didn’t buy it.
reduce the charges; plea - a formal statement by or on behalf of a defendant or prisoner, stating guilt or innocence in response to a charge, offering an allegation of fact, or claiming that a point of law should apply.
“he changed his plea to not guilty”; mitigating circumstances - the circumstances of the offence that reasonably may serve as a basis for imposing a sentence less than death.
The judge sentenced her to 35 years to life in prison for each crime.
sentence sb to xx years to life - maybe 35 years or as long as a life sentence
Will she serve the sentences consecutively or concurrently?
consecutively - one after the other; conCURrently - two things at the same time
What would we crime reporters do without juicy murders?
juicy - interestingly scandalous. juicy gossip.
