美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-11_在线英语听力室

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1. Hurricane Iselle is expected to arrive on the Big Island of Hawaii on Thursday, bringing heavy rains and winds gusting¹ to 85 miles per hour. It's expected to be Hawaii's first direct hit from a hurricane in 22 years.

2. Residents of more than 200 homes in the Columbia River Gorge² in Oregon have been ordered to evacuate³. A wildfire is quickly spreading east of Portland.

3. Authorities in Nigeria are trying to get more isolation⁴ tents to keep the Ebola virus from spreading. The virus is blamed for hundreds of deaths in at least four African countries.

4. And the National Park Service is proposing a ban on commercial fishing in Biscayne Bay National Park off the coast of Miami. It wants to prevent overfishing in an area where people have fished for generations.

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1 gusting
（风）猛刮（gust的现在分词形式）
参考例句：
Then the treacherous North Atlantic struck, with hail, rain, lightning and gusting wind. 这时，气候变幻莫测的北大西洋出现了冰雹、大雨、闪电和狂风。来自英汉非文学 - 百科语料821 Jeff: Sometimes, the partiality and miscarriage of justice are dis-gusting too. 杰夫：有时，裁判的不公平和误判也真是令人讨厌的一件事情。

2 gorge
n.咽喉，胃，暴食，山峡；v.塞饱，狼吞虎咽地吃
参考例句：
East of the gorge leveled out.峡谷东面地势变得平坦起来。 It made my gorge rise to hear the news.这消息令我作呕。

3 evacuate
v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便
参考例句：
We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！ They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

4 isolation
n.隔离，孤立，分解，分离
参考例句：
The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。 He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后，生活比较孤寂。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-11