美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-08-12_在线英语听力室

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1. Tropical Storm Ernesto spun¹ into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula today. Hundreds of fishermen fled low-lying villages and thousands of tourists have evacuated² resorts. Ernesto hit the region as a hurricane with sustained winds of 85 miles per hour.

2. Republican presidential candidate Mitt³ Romney and President Obama are giving dueling⁴ campaign speeches today. They're making the hard sell to working class and women voters, each hoping to cast the other guy as an extremist.

3. China has again swept all four table tennis titles at the London Olympics with a 3-0 victory over South Korea in the men's team final. China has won 24 of 28 gold medals since the sport entered the Olympic schedule in 1988.

4. The Curiosity rover is flooding NASA with new black-and-white pictures of the Mars landscape. The image is being stitched together to make a panorama⁵. Curiosity also sent enough material for a 2.5-minute video of its dive through the Martian atmosphere.

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1 spun
v.纺，杜撰，急转身
参考例句：
His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。 Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那灵巧的手指把羊毛纺成了细毛线。

2 evacuated
撤退者的
参考例句：
Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。 The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

3 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。

4 dueling
n. 决斗, 抗争(=duelling) 动词duel的现在分词形式
参考例句：
More light-hearted But somewhat puzzled, Vladimir prepared to meet Eugene on the dueling ground. 弗拉基米尔心里轻松了一些，但仍感到有些困惑，在这种心情下，他准备去决斗场地迎战叶甫盖尼。来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学 They had been dueling for hours and finally called a draw. 他们一直决斗了数小时，最后打成平局。

5 panorama
n.全景，全景画，全景摄影，全景照片[装置]
参考例句：
A vast panorama of the valley lay before us.山谷的广阔全景展现在我们面前。 A flourishing and prosperous panorama spread out before our eyes.一派欣欣向荣的景象展现在我们的眼前。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-08-12