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(Article-Courtesy of The China Post)

Romney 接受提名的新聞Lead。

Romney accepts 1)GOP's 2)nomination
Republican Mitt Romney moved into the 3)critical final stretch of his 4)campaign to 5)unseat U.S. President Barack Obama, telling voters in his most important speech to date that they can "trust him to 6)restore the promise of America," but he offered few details about his plans to fix an 7)ailing economy and a politically 8)divided nation.

1)GOP n. 共和黨的暱稱 Grand Old Party, 共和黨是 Republican Party (Republican)民主黨則是 Democratic Party (Democrat)。這兩個是看懂美國政治新聞一定要會的單字。
2)nomination n. 提名
3)critical adj 重要的、關鍵的
4)campaign n. 競選
5)unseat v 讓～卸位，亦即搶奪美國總統的寶座
6)restore v 回覆
7)ailing adj 生病的
8)divided nation n. 分裂的國家