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1. Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former vice¹ presidential candidate John Edwards, has died following a six-year battle with cancer. Her family released a statement Monday, saying her doctors determined² any further treatment would be ineffective. She was 61 years old.

2. Amid criticism from fellow Democrats³ that he caved in to GOP demands. President Barack Obama says a compromise on the Bush-era tax cuts keeps his 2008 promise to protect the middle class from higher tax rates. He vowed⁴ Tuesday to fight any long-term protection for the wealthy.

3. WikiLeaks says the legal troubles of its founder⁵ and money woes⁶ won't stop the flow of secret US diplomatic cables. Julian Assange has been jailed in Britain as he fights extradition⁷ to Sweden on sex crime allegations. Extradition could take as many as two months.

4. It's not your grandparent's dreidel song, but this Hanukkah tune⁸, put together by a New York a cappella group, is lighting⁹ up YouTube. The video has gotten well over two million hits since it was first posted just over a week ago.

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1 vice
n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的
参考例句：
He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。 They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 determined
adj.坚定的；有决心的
参考例句：
I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。 He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

3 democrats
n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。 The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。来自《简明英汉词典》

4 vowed
起誓，发誓（vow的过去式与过去分词形式）
参考例句：
He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。 I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。

5 Founder
n.创始者，缔造者
参考例句：
He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。 According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

6 woes
困境( woe的名词复数 )；悲伤；我好苦哇；某人就要倒霉
参考例句：
Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。 She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。

7 extradition
n.引渡（逃犯）
参考例句：
The smuggler is in prison tonight,awaiting extradition to Britain.这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。 He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。

8 tune
n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整
参考例句：
He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。 The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

9 lighting
n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光
参考例句：
The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。 The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。