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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
a. gastroduodenalis
Abelmoschus manihot Medic.
abelsonite (nickel porphyrin)
adjutants
air out
angle of zero lift
anti-inhibitor
articles of clothing
baseball clinic
basis grade
BAT file extension
be left to oneself
be off base
Betacbolyl
binding stiff
Bosumtwi, Lake
btl.
business level
CEN-2
chaperonages
childcare
chirality phase
comunities
conductour
crh
cupro-mangano-aphthitalite
deposit received on sale
destructive overspeed failure
diaphragmatic pleurisy
dip one's hand into one's purse
diplomatic treaty
dog head fixator
duplex ileum
early death
egg covering
embossing stylus
employment experience
encoding scheme
engineer superintendent
fixed column
flat-crested weir
forestry centre
gas purge system
grilled lamb chops
half-speed synchronization
hand-painted
high altitude compensation
higher protist
huntingtown
immobilities
injection technology
interfacial property
irritable colon
ivaz
jaspilite iron ore
Kashmir earthquake
ker-blam
lead alloy seal
learning through doing
least fixpoint
linearity measuring wave form
lingberry
look-at-me signal
made merry over
magneto resistance modulation
marketing resources
Mingteke Daban (Mintaka P.)
multi-list file
nerve centre
neuronopathies
Newton Wonder
no less than
noncoalition
normal parameters
oleds
opsiuria
ovarious
ozonospherical
pachydermoid
performing arts review
periodic selection
phosgenismus
phreatomagmatically
play host to
rhigotic
scramble data
self-folding strip chart
sense
shaded portions
shank length
shelter anchorage
shift interlock mechanism
static direct transient reactance
syndrome of wind-fire and heat-toxicity
theyr
Titumate
transfaunation
tube stack
UCS diagram
us sw
Virtual File Allocation Table
well-cress