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1. Jon Huntsman is dropping out of the Republican presidential race. Huntsman made the announcement this morning in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Huntsman is endorsing¹ Mitt² Romney, saying he is the man best equipped to defeat Barack Obama in the fall.

2. The head of an Italian cruise ship company is blaming a captain for a deadly accident that's killed at least six. Sixteen other people remain missing after the Concordia ran into a reef and toppled onto its side. Two Americans are among the missing.

3. Shoe seller Zappos.com says a hacker³ may have gotten personal information of 24 million customers. The company says customers' credit card and payment information was not stolen. But names, phone numbers and the last four digits⁴ from credit cards may have been accessed.

4. President Barack Obama says there's no better way to honor Martin Luther King than to do something on behalf of others. The president spoke⁵ as his wife and daughter joined volunteers doing a Martin Luther King Day service project at a Washington elementary school.

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1 endorsing
v.赞同( endorse的现在分词 )；在（尤指支票的）背面签字；在（文件的）背面写评论；在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品
参考例句：
Yet Communist leaders are also publicly endorsing religion in an unprecedented way. 不过，共产党领导层对宗教信仰的公开认可也是以前不曾有过的。来自互联网 Connecticut Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman is endorsing Republican Senator John McCain. 康涅狄格州独立派参议员约瑟夫。列波曼将会票选共和议员约翰。麦凯恩。来自互联网

2 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
参考例句：
I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。 Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

3 hacker
n.能盗用或偷改电脑中信息的人，电脑黑客
参考例句：
The computer hacker wrote that he was from Russia.这个计算机黑客自称他来自俄罗斯。 This site was attacked by a hacker last week.上周这个网站被黑客攻击了。

4 digits
n.数字( digit的名词复数 )；手指，足趾
参考例句：
The number 1000 contains four digits. 1000是四位数。来自《简明英汉词典》 The number 410 contains three digits. 数字 410 中包括三个数目字。来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5 spoke
n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说
参考例句：
They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。 The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。