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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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swollen
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adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀 | |
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reprieved
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v.缓期执行(死刑)( reprieve的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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mandatory
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adj.命令的;强制的;义务的;n.受托者 | |
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bracing
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adj.令人振奋的 | |
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hopping
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n. 跳跃 动词hop的现在分词形式 | |
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