美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-11-01_在线英语听力室

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1. Forecasters say Hurricane Sandy is continuing to move quickly and taking aim at several states along East Coast. The National Hurricane Center says the storm's top sustained winds are holding at about 90 miles an hour.

2. A construction crane is dangling¹ off a luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan. It's prompting a large emergency response as a huge storm bears down on New York city. Emergency crews say residents in surrounding building have been ordered to move to lower floors and the streets below were cleared.

3. This Hurricane is also grounded thousands of flights in North East and other ended travel plans across the global. Passengers from Hong Kong to Europe was stranded² because of the weather. The super storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights.

4. Sandy also disrupted the Presidential campaign eight days before the election. President Barack Obama and Republican Romney Mitt³ called off campaign rallies as the storm strengthened.

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1 dangling
悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 )；摆动不定；用某事物诱惑…；吊胃口
参考例句：
The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now. 结果，那颗牙就晃来晃去吊在床柱上了。 The children sat on the high wall,their legs dangling. 孩子们坐在一堵高墙上，摇晃着他们的双腿。

2 stranded
a.搁浅的，进退两难的
参考例句：
He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里，身无分文，一筹莫展。 I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

3 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
参考例句：
I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。 Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-11-01