Afghan horsemen compete for a goat carcass during a game of the traditional sport of Buzkashi in Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh province. on February 27th 2015. The ancient game of Buzkashi is an Afghan national sport played between two teams of horsemen competing to throw a animal carcass into a circle. Credit: AFPhttp://econ.st/1AJdTRD
#BREAKING: A dangling scaffold near the 69th floor of the skyscraper One World Trade Center prompted a successful rescue operation by New York fire department to get two workers off the platform.
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THOMAS LOW-BEER,
24, a Brazilian who sails in the polluted bay where the Olympic sailing
events are planned in Rio de Janiero.
《中英對照讀新聞》Eagle knocks out power with dead deer 老鷹用死鹿打斷電力供應
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A deer fawn apparently dropped by a bald eagle onto a high-voltage line was behind a power outage this week in western Montana, a Northwestern Energy official said.
一頭顯然被白頭鷹掉在一條高壓電線的幼鹿是本週西蒙大拿州停電的原因，西北能源公司一名職員指出。
"It’s a first-time thing," Northwestern spokeswoman Michelle Sullivan said. "A deer dangling on the line, that’s never happened before."
「這是頭一遭的事，」西北能源公司女發言人蘇莉文說，「一頭鹿懸垂在電線上，以前未曾發生過。」
Sullivan said linemen investigating the cause of the outage in a rural neighborhood of East Missoula couldn’t believe their eyes when they found the carcass of the fawn draped over electric wires more than two stories high.
Workers blamed the eagle after homeowner Lee Bridges reported that one of the birds had spent 15 minutes perched in a spruce in her yard that morning just after the neighborhood lost electricity.
When Northwestern crews arrived, Bridges approached a repairman to learn what caused the outage. "He pointed up to the sky and said, ’There’s your problem -- a flying deer,’" said Bridges.
She said the eagle had likely been plotting how to retrieve what remained of its prey.
她表示，這隻鷹可能在思考如何取回牠的殘餘獵物。
Bald eagles can have wingspans of nearly 8 feet and weigh up to 14 pounds. Accounts suggest the fawn was just days old.
白頭鷹翼展可達約8英尺、重達14磅，據傳這頭幼鹿僅有幾天大。
新聞辭典︰
knock out︰片語，摧毀、中斷，也有擊倒、使震驚之意。例句︰He knocked himself out with work.（工作把他累垮了。）
fawn︰名詞為小動物、未滿一歲的幼鹿，動詞則為討好、奉承。例句︰She fawns on her superiors in order to get a promotion.（為了升遷，她對上司討好奉承。）
dangle︰動詞，懸盪、懸垂，也有不安的等待之意。例句︰Don’t keep me dangling： tell me if I p
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Flashy
The boom of postwar America was not lost on the lowly lightbulb. Many manufacturers
spent the proceeding decades perfecting the camera flash. And, as GE proved in 1955, there was no better way to advertise a new invention than by dangling it off the ears of a pretty lady.
1Hang or swing loosely:saucepans dangled from a rail[WITH OBJECT]:they were dangling their legs over the water
1.1[WITH OBJECT] Offer (an enticing incentive) to someone:the defence portfolio could be the carrot to dangle before him
Phrases
keep someone dangling
Keep someone in an uncertain position:he was kept dangling—offered a place in the team and then dropped
Derivatives
dangler NOUN
dangly
ADJECTIVE
Origin
late 16th century: symbolic of something loose and pendulous, corresponding to Danish dangle, Swedishdangla, but the origin is unclear.
dangle
v., gled, -gling, -gles.v.intr.
To hang loosely and swing or sway to and fro.
To be a hanger-on.
v.tr.
To cause to hang loosely or swing.
To cause (one's expectations or hopes) to hang uncertainly or remain unresolved.n.
The act or an instance of dangling.
Something dangled.
[Perhaps from Danish dangle or Swedish dangla.]dangler dan'g
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