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飓风艾琳已于周日由一级飓风降级至热带风暴，向北移动给美国新英格兰地区带来了强降雨及大风天气。飓风艾琳造成当地运输被迫中止、航班取消及东海岸的大面积断电。但是纽约避免了当初人们所担心的严重毁坏。
Hurricane Irene has been downgraded to a tropical storm, and has moved from New York into New England, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to much of Connecticut.
The Miami-based US National Hurricane Center says windspeeds dropped to 100 kilometers per hour Sunday morning as it pummeled Long Island and metropolitan New York. But gusts knocked down power lines, leaving more than 500,000 homes and businesses in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire without electricity.
Forecasters say Irene still poses a serious threat in coastal areas from Virginia to Massachusetts, and isolated tornadoes in New York and inland areas are also possible. Irene has killed 16 people so far since it made landfall.
词汇学习：
1. hurricane n. 飓风
2. tropical a. 热带的，炎热的
例句：Bananas are tropical fruit. 香蕉是热带水果。
3. pummel v. (用拳)接连地打；沉重的打击
例句：The child pummelled his mother angrily as she carried him home. 那孩子因其母带他回家而生气地捶打着母亲。
4. metropolitan a.大城市的，大都会的
5. landfall n. (远洋航行时)初见陆地(或接近陆地)；着陆，登陆
例句：After three weeks crossing the Atlantic, they made landfall on the coast of Ireland. 横渡大西洋三周后，他们在爱尔兰的沿海登陆了。
1. hurricane n. 飓风
2. tropical a. 热带的，炎热的
例句：Bananas are tropical fruit. 香蕉是热带水果。
3. pummel v. (用拳)接连地打；沉重的打击
例句：The child pummelled his mother angrily as she carried him home. 那孩子因其母带他回家而生气地捶打着母亲。
4. metropolitan a.大城市的，大都会的
5. landfall n. (远洋航行时)初见陆地(或接近陆地)；着陆，登陆
例句：After three weeks crossing the Atlantic, they made landfall on the coast of Ireland. 横渡大西洋三周后，他们在爱尔兰的沿海登陆了。
