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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)

1. Rick Santorum quits the presidential campaign, clearing the way for Mitt¹ Romney to claim the Republican nomination². Santorum said for him the race is over, but the fight to beat President Obama goes on.

2. The Miami Marlins suspend manager Ozzie Guillen for five games for comments about Fidel Castro of Cuba. Guillen said he loves Castro and respects the leader for staying in power so long.

3. On the east coast, fire crews are battling brush fires like this one on Long Island. Several homes and businesses were destroyed among thousand acres burned. But high winds could return injuring firefighter.

4. In Hong Kong, this is a female woolly mammoth³ but is nearly 40,000 years old. The one-month-old was found practically intact in 2007 by a Siberian reindeer⁴ herder.

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1 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。

2 nomination
n.提名，任命，提名权
参考例句：
John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。 Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

3 mammoth
n.长毛象；adj.长毛象似的，巨大的
参考例句：
You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。 Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。

4 reindeer
n.驯鹿
参考例句：
The herd of reindeer was being trailed by a pack of wolves.那群驯鹿被一只狼群寻踪追赶上来。 The life of the Reindeer men was a frontier life.驯鹿时代人的生活是一种边区生活。