美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-03-20_在线英语听力室

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1. Ohio's attorney general says a grand jury will look into whether others broke the law by not speaking up after a teenage girl was raped¹ by a pair of high school football players last summer. The two Steubenville boys were convicted Sunday.

2. The son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic is expected to be President Obama's pick for the next labor² secretary. The White House says the president is set to nominate Thomas Perez, an assistant attorney general.

3. Authorities say a private jet was having mechanical trouble before it crashed into a neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana Sunday. Two people on the plane were killed and two others were injured. One person on the ground was also hurt.

4. And after an extended court case, Chinese-American engineer Hu Zhicheng is still living in limbo³ in China, free to go about his business in Shanghai but not allowed to return to his family in the US. Meanwhile in California, his family fears they will never see him again.

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1 raped
v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸
参考例句：
A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。来自辞典例句 We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。来自辞典例句

2 labor
n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦
参考例句：
We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。 He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

3 limbo
n.地狱的边缘；监狱
参考例句：
His life seemed stuck in limbo and he could not go forward and he could not go back.他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地，进退两难。 I didn't know whether my family was alive or dead.I felt as if I was in limbo.我不知道家人是生是死，感觉自己茫然无措。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-03-20