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AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-08-18

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1.Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall on the Florida Panhandle packing fifteen-mile-per-hour winds. It is now a tropical depression. Meanwhile Bill has become the Atlantic season's first hurricane.

2.Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is hospitalized after a suspect attacked him with a pipe. Barrett was trying to help a grandmother from being assaulted. A twenty-year-old man has been arrested.

3.American John Yettaw is undergoing medical tests in Thailand after being released from imprisonment1 in Myanmar over the weekend. Virginia Senator Jim Webb says Yettaw is not in good health.

4.The government says all those clunker trade-ins must be scrapped2. And a car dealership3 in Oklahoma has found a unique way to do it--by crushing them with a monster truck. The government is shelling out three billion dollars to the program.

 


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1 imprisonment I9Uxk     
n.关押，监禁，坐牢
参考例句：
  • His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
  • He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。
2 scrapped c056f581043fe275b02d9e1269f11d62     
废弃(scrap的过去式与过去分词)； 打架
参考例句：
  • This machine is so old that it will soon have to be scrapped. 这架机器太旧，快报废了。
  • It had been thought that passport controls would be scrapped. 人们曾认为会放开护照管制。
3 dealership Kv6zWa     
n.商品特许经销处
参考例句：
  • The car dealership has a large inventory of used cars. 这家汽车经销商拥有数量庞大的二手车。
  • A key to this effort is the experience in the dealership. 达到这个成果的关键是销售的体验。

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