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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
1. President Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting in Ohio. There, he calls on Congress to enact1 a new job-creation bill, and he demands that include tax breaks for small businesses hiring and for people who make their homes more energy efficient.
2. Eighty-four-year-old Haitian woman has been pulled alive from the rubble2 ten days after Haiti's killer3 earthquake. But the doctor says she may not survive. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Haitians are fleeing their quake-ravaged capital. Haiti's government is promising4 to move others into tent cities.
3. Opening arguments are under way in the trial of a man accused of killing5 an abortion6 doctor in Kansas. Scott Roeder is charged with premeditated first-degree murder.
4. The airliner7 that ended up in the Hudson River has landed again, this time, on the auction8 blog. An insurance firm is putting the Airbus A320 up for sale online. It describes the plane, minus its two engines, as having severe water damage.
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vt.制定(法律);上演,扮演 | |
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n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾 | |
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n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者 | |
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adj.有希望的,有前途的 | |
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5 killing | |
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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6 abortion | |
n.流产,堕胎 | |
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7 airliner | |
n.客机,班机 | |
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8 auction | |
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖 | |
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