CNN news 2011-11-10 加文本

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1. The self-titled "King of Pop" died of a heart attack two years ago at age 50.

die of死于
例句：People are dying of cancer more and more often.
死于癌症的人越来越多了。

2. The Republican debates you`ve heard about help voters hear what the candidates have to say, and the process of deciding the Republican nominee will start early next year in a series of decisions called primaries and caucuses.

hear about得悉, 听说
例句：Have you ever heard about the movie?
你听说过这部电影吗?

3. Typically an incumbent president, a leader who`s running for reelection, has some advantages in campaigning against his challengers. J

run for竞选；让…竞选
例句：Mr Brown did not want to run for governor of the state last year.
布朗先生去年不想竞选州长。

4. Jessica Yellin explains what these advantages are, and why President Obama isn`t taking advantage of all of them.

take advantage of利用
例句：He took advantage of the good weather to go for a walk.
他趁着天气好,出去散散步。

5. So over the past three months, he`s repeatedly hit the road to small towns, looking more like Candidate Obama than commander in chief, often ditching Air Force One for a bus, rolling up his shirt sleeves, sometimes skipping "Hail to the Chief" altogether.

roll up卷起; 卷成圆筒形〔球形〕
例句：She rolled up her sleeves.
她卷起袖子。

6. The president wants to distance himself from Washington and the partisan politics that he promised but failed to fix.

distance from疏远
例句：Lately she has seemed to distance herself from me.
她近来似乎在疏远我。

7. It just becomes a very, very difficult sell to the American people to persuade them that the head of the Democratic Party that controls the Senate, and the head of the entire government is running against the government that he heads.

run against与…比赛；与…竞选
例句：Mr. William is going to run against Johnson.
威廉先生将与约翰逊竞选。