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1. ¡°Take a vote¡± versus¹ ¡°Let¡¯s negotiate¡±, the stalemate of the partial government shutdown continued into its eighth day on Tuesday. During a lengthy² press conference, President Obama said he called House Speaker John Boehner and urged him to let the House vote on a clean funding bill to re-open the government. Boehner re-stated he is willing to negotiate on budget issues without anything conditions.

2. After years in the making, the Federal Reserve says the new hundred-billion-dollar bill is going to circulation Tuesday with two major new security features. The bills which took more than a decade to develop were plagued by production problems that set the rollout back for more than two years.

3. China deployed³ emergence⁴ officials and soldiers to its eastern coast to rescue residents stranded⁵ by the typhoon flood waters. Local media reported that flood water rose up to 60 feet in some locations.

4. And Britain¡¯s Peter Higgs and Belgium colleague Francois Englert had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing a framework for how the universe works. Their research developed in the1960s was only confirmed last year when a Geneva laboratory discovered the so-called Higgs boson or particle in a major breakthrough.

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1 versus
prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下
参考例句：
The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。 The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

2 lengthy
adj.漫长的，冗长的
参考例句：
We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。 The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。

3 deployed
（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )；施展；部署；有效地利用
参考例句：
Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。 The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

4 emergence
n.浮现，显现，出现，（植物）突出体
参考例句：
The last decade saw the emergence of a dynamic economy.最近10年见证了经济增长的姿态。 Language emerges and develops with the emergence and development of society.语言是随着社会的产生而产生，随着社会的发展而发展的。

5 stranded
a.搁浅的，进退两难的
参考例句：
He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里，身无分文，一筹莫展。 I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-10-12