美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-12-17_在线英语听力室

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1. A new Associated Press GFK poll finds 58% of Americans disapprove¹ of President Obama’s performance. It also found nearly 2/3 of Americans want to replace their own member of congress.

2. Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s body has been moved to his country’s capital Pretoria. He will lie in state for 3 days.

3. Police in Kiev, Ukraine pulled back after trying to remove protestor’s camp from a city square. Demonstrators want Ukraine’s government to resign.

4. And a skier² in Utah survived an avalanche³ by deploying⁴ a special airbag so that she could breathe under the snow until other skiers dug her out.

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1 disapprove
v.不赞成，不同意，不批准
参考例句：
I quite disapprove of his behaviour.我很不赞同他的行为。 She wants to train for the theatre but her parents disapprove.她想训练自己做戏剧演员，但她的父母不赞成。

2 skier
n.滑雪运动员
参考例句：
She is a skier who is unafraid of danger.她是一名敢于冒险的滑雪者。 The skier skimmed across the snow.滑雪者飞快地滑过雪地。

3 avalanche
n.雪崩，大量涌来
参考例句：
They were killed by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.他们在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的一次雪崩中罹难。 Higher still the snow was ready to avalanche.在更高处积雪随时都会崩塌。

4 deploying
（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )；施展；部署；有效地利用
参考例句：
Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。 Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-12-17