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1. Continental1 flight 128 was forced to make an emergency landing in Miami after hitting severe turbulence2 during an overnight flight from Brazil to Texas. At least 26 people on board were injured, four of them seriously.
2. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs says the president has committed to not raise taxes on families who are earning less than a quarter million dollars. The reassurance3 came after Treasury4 Secretary Timothy Geithner suggested Sunday that the administration was not ready to rule out a tax hike to lower the federal deficit5.
3. Prosecutors6 say a grand jury has indicted7 Plaxico Burress on weapons charges. The New York Giants star shot himself in the thigh8 at a Manhattan nightclub last winter. The indictment9 charged the 31-year-old football player with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment.
4. And it's a new gadget10 in Japan that is helping11 people walk. Weighing about 22 pounds, these machines pick up signals from the brain. The makers12 say they can help people who are injured or otherwise have trouble getting around.
1 continental | |
adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的 | |
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2 turbulence | |
n.喧嚣,狂暴,骚乱,湍流 | |
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3 reassurance | |
n.使放心,使消除疑虑 | |
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4 treasury | |
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库 | |
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5 deficit | |
n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差 | |
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6 prosecutors | |
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人 | |
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7 indicted | |
控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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8 thigh | |
n.大腿;股骨 | |
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9 indictment | |
n.起诉;诉状 | |
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10 gadget | |
n.小巧的机械,精巧的装置,小玩意儿 | |
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11 helping | |
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的 | |
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12 makers | |
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式) | |
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