[00:00.10]The New York Post Iran a headline with the words “brain damage”
[00:05.69] in reporting on comments from Republican strategist Karl Rove during a recent speech that raised questions about Hillary Clinton’s health.
[00:14.33]Clinton did not address the Rove comments in a speech Friday.
[00:18.00]She was treated for a blood clot in 2012 after suffering a concussion in a fall at her home.
[00:28.04]Former President Bill Clinton laughed off Rove’s comments and said his wife is in good health.
[00:34.69]“Now they say she has really got brain damage.
[00:37.40]If she does, then I must be in really tough shape because she is still quicker than I am.”
[00:43.18]Rove was a key political adviser to former President George W. Bush and sought to clarify his remarks on Fox News.
[00:51.08]“I didn’t say she had brain damage.
[00:53.24]She had a serious health episode.
[00:55.69]This will be an issue in the 2016 race whether she likes it or not,” he said.
[00:59.24]Clinton has said she will decide on a presidential run by the end of this year.
[01:03.28]Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said she can expect more attacks if she decides to seek the White House.
[01:10.57]“Just as people were unbounded in their commentary about Obama,
[01:15.29]they will be unbounded in their commentary on her, and she’s tough enough, she can take it.
[01:20.06]She’s taken it for years.”
[01:21.40]Clinton’s record as secretary of state will get fresh scrutiny from a special committee set up
[01:27.12]by House Republicans to probe the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya,
[01:34.95]which resulted in the deaths of four Americans.
[01:38.71]Clinton defended her handling of the incident during a Senate hearing in 2013.
[01:43.66]“Was it because of a protest or was it because guys were out for a walk one night and decided to go kill some Americans?
[01:49.32]What difference at this point does it make?”
[01:52.20]Clinton is familiar with Republican attacks from her eight years as first lady, said public opinion expert Karlyn Bowman.
[02:00.47]“There is a base of opposition to Hillary Clinton.
[02:03.24]It is part of the Republican conservative base, and that is not inconsequential,
[02:08.80]but I think she looks like a pretty strong candidate at this point,” said Bowman.
[02:11.73]Clinton’s book on her tenure as secretary of state, entitled Hard Choices, will be published next month.
詞匯解析
prominent
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
adj.顯著的；杰出的；突出的
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用作形容詞 (adj.)
That school is prominent in baseball.
那個學校以棒球著稱。
She is having a lean, gaunt frame with prominent bones.
他骨瘦如柴的身材又細又瘦,骨骼突出的
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clarify
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
vt.澄清；闡明；凈化
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用作及物動詞 (vt.)
These brief remarks may serve to clarify the fact.
這些簡要的評論可以澄清事實。
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mission
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.使命；代表團；任務；布道
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用作名詞 (n.)
A Chinese trade mission has been dispatched to Japan.
一個中國貿易代表團已被派往日本。
He has been on confidential missions to Berlin.
他前往柏林執(zhí)行秘密任務。
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incident
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.事變；事件；插曲
adj.難免的；附帶的
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用作名詞 (n.)
The police are connecting this incident with last week's terrorist bombing.
警方認為這次事件和上周的恐怖分子爆炸事件有關。
用作形容詞 (adj.)
There are many evils incident to human society.
人類社會有很多罪惡。
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expert
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.專家；能手
adj.熟練的；內行的
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用作名詞 (n.)
She is a reputable expert.
她是個有聲望的專家。
用作形容詞 (adj.)
The surgeon cut away the tumour with expert skill.
外科大夫用熟練的技術把腫瘤切去。
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conservative
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
adj.保守的；守舊的
n.保守派(黨)；保守的人
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
The professor's a radical in politics but a conservative dresser.
教授在政治上是激進派,但衣著卻很守舊。
用作名詞 (n.)
He listed himself as a conservative.
他自稱是一個保守主義者。
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