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1.A senior administration official says President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan with the president willing to send only the number of troops needed to keep al-Qaida at bay. The president's final decision on a strategy in Afghanistan is still weeks away.

2.Newly released control tower recordings1 capture an air traffic controller bantering2 with a female friend about a dead cat as a small plane flew toward the helicopter. The collision killed nine people.

3.Lengthy3 airline delays are twice  as common now as  in 1990 and will get worse as the economy recovers. The Brookings Institution blames much of the bound-prolonged short flights between major cities.

4.The Nobel Prize in literature goes to Herta Mueller, a German writer born in Romania persecuted4 for her critical descriptions of life behind the Iron  Curtain.


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1 recordings 22f9946cd05973582e73e4e3c0239bb7     
n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片
参考例句：
  • a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
  • old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
2 bantering Iycz20     
adj.嘲弄的v.开玩笑，说笑，逗乐( banter的现在分词 )；（善意地）取笑，逗弄
参考例句：
  • There was a friendly, bantering tone in his voice. 他的声音里流露着友好诙谐的语调。
  • The students enjoyed their teacher's bantering them about their mistakes. 同学们对老师用风趣的方式讲解他们的错误很感兴趣。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3 lengthy f36yA     
adj.漫长的，冗长的
参考例句：
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
  • The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。
4 persecuted 2daa49e8c0ac1d04bf9c3650a3d486f3     
（尤指宗教或政治信仰的）迫害(~sb. for sth.)( persecute的过去式和过去分词 )； 烦扰，困扰或骚扰某人
参考例句：
  • Throughout history, people have been persecuted for their religious beliefs. 人们因宗教信仰而受迫害的情况贯穿了整个历史。
  • Members of these sects are ruthlessly persecuted and suppressed. 这些教派的成员遭到了残酷的迫害和镇压。

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