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NPR 2011-05-22

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The swollen1 Mississippi River is giving residents of at least one Louisiana town something ever reprieved2. Evacuations that were supposed to become mandatory3 in Butte La Rose today had been put on hold. Most have already left, but officials there now say the Mississippi River might not get as high as feared; they put evacuations off for a couple of days. Other towns are bracing4 for flooding. Carl Kraemer, the emergency management director of Morgan City, is hopping5 for the best.

"The amount of work that we have done in this—the last two weeks is almost unheard of, but we got the crews—our city crews in here. We got National Guard crews in here, and we really did a lot of work to bring..."


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1 swollen DrcwL     
adj.肿大的，水涨的；v.使变大，肿胀
参考例句：
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着，她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂肿起来了。
2 reprieved 0584c4b1a4d09db1e4f8ea95691f7353     
v.缓期执行（死刑）( reprieve的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • 70 jobs have been reprieved until next April. 有70个职位暂时保留到明年四月份。
  • We were reprieved from the danger for a time. 我们暂免危险。 来自辞典例句
3 mandatory BjTyz     
adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者
参考例句：
  • It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
  • There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。
4 bracing oxQzcw     
adj.令人振奋的
参考例句：
  • The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
  • The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。
5 hopping hopping     
n. 跳跃 动词hop的现在分词形式
参考例句：
  • The clubs in town are really hopping. 城里的俱乐部真够热闹的。
  • I'm hopping over to Paris for the weekend. 我要去巴黎度周末。

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