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A second health care worker in Dallas has diagnosed¹ with Ebola. CDC officials say the nurse will be flown to Atlanta for treatment. She was part of a hospital team in Texas that cared for a Liberian man who died from Ebola last week.

Prosecutors² called their first witness in the sentencing hearing for former Olympian Oscar Pistorius. The judge heard from Reeva Stennkamp's cousin. She's the first relative of Stennkamp to testfiy in the months-long trial. Pistoruis was found guilty of culpable³ homicide for the shooting of his girlfriend. He faces up to 15 years in prison.

At least a dozen people are dead after an avalanche⁴ and blizzard⁵ hits northern Nepal. The victims include foreign hikers with some from Canada. The death toll⁶ is expected to rise.

And another spacewalk at the International Space Station. Astronauts replaced a failed electrical unit. It's the station's second successful spacewalk in 2 weeks.

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1 diagnosed
诊断( diagnose的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
Some foetal malformations cannot be diagnosed until late in pregnancy. 有些胎儿的畸形部位得等到妊娠后期才能诊断出来。 He diagnosed the trouble that caused the engine to knock. 他找出了引擎咔咔响的毛病所在。

2 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )；告发人；起诉人；公诉人
参考例句：
In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。来自口语例句 You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

3 culpable
adj.有罪的，该受谴责的
参考例句：
The judge found the man culpable.法官认为那个人有罪。 Their decision to do nothing makes them culpable.他们不采取任何行动的决定使他们难辞其咎。

4 avalanche
n.雪崩，大量涌来
参考例句：
They were killed by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.他们在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的一次雪崩中罹难。 Higher still the snow was ready to avalanche.在更高处积雪随时都会崩塌。

5 blizzard
n.暴风雪
参考例句：
The blizzard struck while we were still on the mountain.我们还在山上的时候暴风雪就袭来了。 You'll have to stay here until the blizzard blows itself off.你得等暴风雪停了再走。

6 toll
n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)
参考例句：
The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。 The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-10-19