a paper carrying the front-page headline: ‘Space Aliens meet with President’
头版报道题为“天外来客会见总统”的报纸
2.the headlinesNEWSthe important points of the mainnews stories that are read at the beginning of a news programme on radio or television 〔广播或电视的〕新闻提要
Examples from the Corpus
the headlines• I just have time to glance at the headlines before I leave for work.• There were major changes within the variousinvertebrate types, although these seldom caughtthe headlines.• This is the six o'clock news. First, the headlines..• There is an even greater need for good advice, particularly away from the headlines, in agreed as opposed to hostiletransactions.• Only a life-or-death issue such as a liver or heart will hit the headlines.• What about those Usenet newsgroups that have been in the headlines recently?• With all this in the headlinesdaily there was no hope of preventinggossip.• But close observers say the headlines may mask a more fundamentaltruth.• Blondin eventually denied that story, though he waited until the headlinesdied.
3make/grab (the) headlines (also be in/hit the headlines)NEWSFAMOUS to be reported in many newspapers and on radio and television 成了报纸[电台,电视]上的新闻
a scandal that grabbed the headlines for weeks
连续几周备受媒体关注的丑闻
The former MP found himself back in the headlines again.
那位前议员发现自己再次登上了新闻头条。
Examples from the Corpus
make/grab (the) headlines• Woods' success has made headlinesnationwide.• What has grabbed headlines this year is the issue of food safety.• The problems-from bad backs to carpal tunnelsyndrome to headaches-have made the headlines of every healthmagazine in the country.• This is evidenced by a number of recentdisasters which have made the headlines.• The story made headlines around the world and researchers believe it may have inspired the novel Lassie Come Home.• Days later his passionateaffair with cartoonistSally Anne Lassoon was making headlines.• It is the exceptions which make the headlines.• More airplanetragedies will make the headlines.
nCOLLOCATIONS – Meanings 1 & 3
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + headline
a front-page headline
The newspaper's front-page headline read simply 'Prime Minister resigns'.
a big headline (=a headline that a lot of people are interested in)
Celebrity divorces have made big headlines.
a banner headline (=a very large headline across the top of the page)
Le Monde ran its famous banner headline ' We are all Americans now'.
national/international headlines
The story made national headlines.
a newspaper headline
The story dominated newspaper headlines around the world.
a tabloid headline (=a headline in a newspaper that has a lot of stories about famous people, sex etc)
One tabloid headline read 'Doctor of Death'.
phrases
be in the headlines (=to be reported in many newspapers as an important story)
The singer was back in the headlines for partying every night.
verbs
make/grab (the) headlines (=to be reported in many newspapers as an important story)
Madonna's adoption of the child grabbed world headlines.
hit the headlines (=make the headlines)
Crane hit the headlines after she was arrested for the murder of her husband.
dominate the headlines (=to be the story that is most often reported in newspapers)
News from Iraq continued to dominate the headlines.
have/carry a headline
The Times carried the headline ‘7.4 Earthquake hits Los Angeles.’
run a headline (=use a headline)
One tabloid paper ran the headline: ‘Disney Theme Park Found On Mars’.
read a headline
I just read the main headlines.
the headlines read/say (=the headlines say something)
The next morning’s headlines read: ‘Moors Search for Missing Boys’.
1headline figure/rateBritish EnglishBrEECONOMICS in Britain, a figure that shows the general level of inflation, including MORTGAGEpayments (=repayments on a loan for buying a house)
The headline rate of inflation is being pushed towards 4% by higher mortgage costs.