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Obama’s historic Cuba trip
estrangement / ɪ'strendʒmənt / n. 疏远；失和
nudge / nʌdʒ / vt. 推进 TEM8
détente / deɪ'tɒŋt / n. [法语]（国际关系中紧张局面的）缓和，改善
tarmac / 'tɑ:mæk / n. 柏油碎石路面 TEM4
regime / re'ʒim / n. 政权，政体 CET6
President Barack Obama touched down in Cuba on Sunday, definitively ending a half-century of estrangement in a dramatic personal demonstration of his core foreign policy principle of engaging America's enemies.
It's a shift that the change-minded president hopes will nudge the Communist government here to grant more freedoms to its people and open new economic channels for American businesses. The President and his allies also hope a successful détente will offer something bigger: a lasting example of diplomacy's power in dealing with longtime foes.
Just before Obama stepped from Air Force One -- carrying an umbrella as a persistent rain fell on the tarmac -- he sent a message to Cubans on a platform that until recently would have been unheard of in the repressive regime.
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