美联社新闻一分钟 2005-10-24

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1. Hurricane Wilma churns toward Florida as tens of thousands of residents are ordered to evacuate¹ vulnerable islands and coastal² areas.

2. Residents and tourists wander the flooded streets of Cancun Mexico in search of food as the sun returns after a battering³ by Wilma.

3. The British government says the type of bird flu that killed a parrot in quarantine is the deadly strain that's plagued Asia and Europe.

4. Nigerian officials report finding no signs of life after reaching the site where a passenger plane carrying 117 people crashed after takeoff.

5. And eight-time Oscar nominee⁴ Al Pacino has been honored at the 20th annual American Cinematheque Awards in Beverly Hills.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. churn
2 churn churns churning churned
If something churns water, mud, or dust, it moves it about violently.
Ferries churn the waters of Howe Sound from Langdale to Horseshoe Bay.
...unsurfaced roads now churned into mud by the annual rains.
VB

+ churn up churns up; churning up; churned up
Churn up means the same as churn.
The recent rain had churned up the waterfall into a muddy whirlpool.
Occasionally they slap the water with their tails or churn it up in play.
...muddy, churned-up ground.
PHR-V

2. quarantine
1 quarantine
If a person or animal is in quarantine, they are being kept separate from other people or animals for a set period of time, usually because they have or may have a disease.
She was sent home to Oxford⁵ and put in quarantine.
No mammals other than people may enter the country without lengthy⁶ quarantine.
N-UNCOUNT: oft in/into n