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1. President Barack Obama is trumpeting1 his efforts to help women in the workforce2. He's turned to rally key Democratic constituencies ahead of the election. Obama says female business owners have particularly benefited from his administration's efforts to free up lending for small businesses.
2. Mexican officials spent a second day burning around 148 tons of marijuana. The drugs were seized Monday. The drugs were doused3 in gasoline and set alight in a large bonfire.
3. Newly-released video shows the rescue of a man who in August fell onto Washington DC's metro4 rail tracks by another who bounded across two tracks. The rescuer even stepped on the flimsy cover of the electrified5 and very dangerous third rail.
4. A reporter for the Vatican newspaper stands by his story that the family in "The Simpsons" TV show is Catholic. The producer of the long-running animated6 show says the Simpsons are actually Presby-Lutheran.
1 trumpeting | |
大声说出或宣告(trumpet的现在分词形式) | |
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2 workforce | |
n.劳动大军,劳动力 | |
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3 doused | |
v.浇水在…上( douse的过去式和过去分词 );熄灯[火] | |
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4 metro | |
n.地铁;adj.大都市的;(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国,主要经营零售) | |
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v.使电气化( electrify的过去式和过去分词 );使兴奋 | |
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adj.生气勃勃的,活跃的,愉快的 | |
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