美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-02-01_在线英语听力室

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1. More than 230 people are dead after a fire swept through a nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil. More than 100 more are being treated at hospitals. Witnesses say a flare¹ or fireworks may have sparked the fire.

2. Egyptian health officials say three people have been killed and more than 400 injured in new clashes between protesters and police. The Sunday clashes happened in the Mediterranean² city of Port Said during a funeral procession for most of the 37 people killed in other clashes.

3. A Lousiana man is under arrest, accused of killing³ a police officer and wounding two deputies. Police suspect the man also set fire to a mobile home and killed an elderly man.

4. And people around the world mark International Holocaust⁴ Remembrance Day. Sunday marks 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.

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1 flare
v.闪耀，闪烁；n.潮红；突发
参考例句：
The match gave a flare.火柴发出闪光。 You need not flare up merely because I mentioned your work.你大可不必因为我提到你的工作就动怒。

2 Mediterranean
adj.地中海的；地中海沿岸的
参考例句：
The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。 Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。

3 killing
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
参考例句：
Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。 Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

4 holocaust
n.大破坏；大屠杀
参考例句：
The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。 Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-02-01