美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-10-20_在线英语听力室

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Senate leaders say they're optimistic that they'll have a deal to end the partial government shutdown on Wednesday. The deadline to raise the government's debt limit hits at midnight.

A man who works at Los Angeles International Airport is under arrest in connection with two nights of dry ice explosions. Police say Dicarlo Bennett got dry ice from an airplane.

The trains are set to run in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday while negociations continue over a new contract for BART transit¹ workers.

And the Alaska red king crab² season is underway. But a lot of fishing boats are stuck in drydock. It's because the federal managers who set individual fishing "are furloughed due to the partial government shutdown."

Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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1 transit
n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过
参考例句：
His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。 The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

2 crab
n.螃蟹，偏航，脾气乖戾的人，酸苹果；vi.捕蟹，偏航，发牢骚；vt.使偏航，发脾气
参考例句：
I can't remember when I last had crab.我不记得上次吃蟹是什么时候了。 The skin on my face felt as hard as a crab's back.我脸上的皮仿佛僵硬了，就象螃蟹的壳似的。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-10-20