Obama hurt in basketball game

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama was hurt in a basketball game Friday morning, and got 12 stitches in his lip, the White House said.
    Obama got the stitches after his basketball game in the morning with personal aide Reggie Love and members of his family at Fort McNair Army base in Washington.
    White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement that " after being inadvertently hit with an opposing player's elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family," Obama " received 12 stitches today administered by the White House Medical Unit."The stitches were done in the doctor's office located on the ground floor of the White House. The doctors that treated Obama used a smaller filament¹ than typically used, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and results in a smaller scar. Obama was given a local anesthetic(局部麻醉) while receiving the stitches. It is not clear at the moment whether the injury would affect Obama's looks.
    Obama frequently plays basketball with friends, family and aides. His personal aide Love, commonly referred to as his "body man" because he accompanies Obama virtually everywhere, was a forward at Duke University's Blue Devils basketball team that won the NCAA national championship in 2001. Fort McNair has a basketball court frequented by Obama.
    The injury occurred during the Thanksgiving holiday, and Obama has no public events scheduled for the weekend.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

1 filament   

n.细丝；长丝；灯丝

参考例句：

• The source of electrons in an electron microscope is a heated filament.电子显微镜中的电子源，是一加热的灯丝。
• The lack of air in the bulb prevents the filament from burning up.灯泡内缺乏空气就使灯丝不致烧掉。