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英语课
By Jim Randle
Baghdad
22 January 2007


Two car bombs in Baghdad have killed more than 88 people and wounded more than 160 others. VOA's Jim Randle reports from the Iraqi capital.






Smoke rises from the site of two explosions in central Baghdad, 22 Jan 2007


Smoke rises from site of two explosions in central Baghdad, 22 Jan 2007




The two car bombs exploded at nearly the same time, killing 1 and wounding many.


Some small arms fire broke out after the explosions, and ambulances wailed 2 on their way to pick up the many injured.


The bombs went off at mid-day, when the Haraj market was filled with traders selling used electronic goods, clothing, and medicines.


North of Baghdad, a bomb killed at least 12 people in a market near Baquba.


The bombings may be a sign of a renewed campaign of Sunni insurgent 3 violence against Shi'ite targets.


U.N. officials say sectarian violence killed an average of 94 Iraqis every day last year. In an effort to stop the carnage, the United States is sending an additional 20,000 troops to Iraq, with most of them slated 4 to come here to Baghdad.


More than 3,000 elite 5 American troops from the 82nd Airborne Division arrived in the city during the past couple of days.


The new strategy is controversial in the United States, and Mr. Bush is expected to discuss the Iraqi situation in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.


In a newspaper interview with USA Today Mr. Bush said he will not set a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq, because that would allow insurgents 6 to adjust their tactics.


Insurgents showed new tactics on Saturday as they used uniforms and vehicles that closely resembled those used by U.S. officials and forces to bluff 7 their way into a meeting 80 kilometers south of Baghdad and kill five U.S. soldiers.


U.S. and Iraqi military officers reported the results of a separate battle Monday.


"As far as the enemy that we were faced with, this was a well-trained, well-determined Wahabist/al-Qaida terrorist group," said U.S. Captain Steve Dobbins. "They are not the normal insurgents we have seen, these men move in squad 8 formations, take care of their weapons systems, and are good marksmen."


Captain Dobbins commands a company of U.S. soldiers, part of a much larger coalition 9 force that has been fighting alongside Iraqi troops in Diyala Province. Officials said the combined Iraqi-U.S. operation defeated their adversaries 10 in a series of battles.




n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
v.哭叫,哀号( wail的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She wailed over her father's remains. 她对着父亲的遗体嚎啕大哭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The women of the town wailed over the war victims. 城里的妇女为战争的死难者们痛哭。 来自辞典例句
adj.叛乱的,起事的;n.叛乱分子
  • Faruk says they are threatened both by insurgent and government forces.法鲁克说,他们受到暴乱分子和政府军队的双重威胁。
  • The insurgent mob assembled at the gate of the city park.叛变的暴徒聚在市立公园的门口。
用石板瓦盖( slate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Yuki is working up an in-home phonics program slated for Thursdays, and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime. Yuki每周四还有一次家庭语音课。我在晚餐时训练她的英语口语。
  • Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. 布罗姆菲尔德被提名为美国农业部长。
n.精英阶层;实力集团;adj.杰出的,卓越的
  • The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
  • We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
v.虚张声势,用假象骗人;n.虚张声势,欺骗
  • His threats are merely bluff.他的威胁仅仅是虚张声势。
  • John is a deep card.No one can bluff him easily.约翰是个机灵鬼。谁也不容易欺骗他。
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
n.对手,敌手( adversary的名词复数 )
  • That would cause potential adversaries to recoil from a challenge. 这会迫使潜在的敌人在挑战面前退缩。 来自辞典例句
  • Every adversaries are more comfortable with a predictable, coherent America. 就连敌人也会因有可以预料的,始终一致的美国而感到舒服得多。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
5-hydroxytryptophan
a priori comparisons
air-breathing suit
anti-humanists
Belize Barrier Reef
bifilar helix slow-wave circuit
black compilation
border town pipers (scotland)
boze
bushfires
carboloy monoxide detector
caustic magnesia
Chatelperron
chemical equations
Chocholna-Velcice
chroming
cloverleaf antenna
companion ladders
concealed loss and damage claims
conjunctivo-antrostomy
cook utensil
counterdistinguish
crowded with
curanderos
decaying exponential
declarative instruction
deltaic deposit
Deo gratias
discount factoring
door barge
dtac
elaiosphere
electron theodolite
fibre bundle transfer function
fire service department box
gastrilegous
gear inertia
generalized linear phase
get it over with
give heed to
group disequilibrium
gruch
Headteachers
heagarty
heat tolerance coefficient
IMG tag
information handing system
interrecord structure
interrer
iso-electric level
Italian sixth
Kandhura
Knizhovnik
linguoid ripple mark
lob wedges
make money hand over fist
medical gymnastics
melanorosaurids
Menapian
metabisulphite
Moncontour
moniliasis pneumonia
monohydric acid
morning paralyses
multidimensional niche
nationals
nodulus
omnipresent program
one man bridge operation
oxygen-hydrogen recombiner
parafin section
parallel random access machine
phosphatic calculus
polyrhizum
pop-group
push-button yard
resource stock
ridge transform system
rod segment
rotary cutting assembly
S/ON (sign-on)
Schweine-Vasopressin
sector photometer
securities paper
sexual reaction
shoebird
slide prevention
slip nooses
splanchnic cell
surinamiae
time equation
torcaso
total phosphorus
unit in kind
Uruti
valency electrons
waller effect
well-behavedly
Wemale
winevault
wtf
yellow-throated marten skin