时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2004(下)--新闻盘点


英语课

By Bill Gasperini


Police say over a dozen heavily-armed men and women stormed into a school just as students and teachers entered the building on the first day of classes in the new school year.


There was some shooting when the militants 1 seized the building and reports of at least two deaths.


Local authorities say the attackers are wearing suicide bomb belts and have threatened to blow up the school if Russian troops attempt to storm it. They say they are holding talks with the militants, who are demanding that rebels imprisoned 2 in the neighboring region of Ingushetia be freed.


North Ossetia is located next to the breakaway region of Chechnya, where Moscow has been trying to crush a struggle for full independence from Russia for most of the past decade. Officials say it is not clear if the militants are from Chechnya.


The attack follows a suicide bombing Tuesday in Moscow and the crash of two airliners 3 last week that killed 90 people, incidents which authorities believe were carried out by Chechen suicide bombers 4.


President Putin cut short his holiday and returned to Moscow to meet with cabinet and security officials.


Mr. Putin has long refused to negotiate with the Chechens and insists the conflict in Chechnya is solely 5 an issue of terrorism.


Defense 6 Minister Sergei Ivanov says Russia will continue the fight to defeat the rebels. He tells reporters, this is a war without a front line, adding Russia is not the only country which faces this. He says, it is no accident that the bombing near the Moscow metro 7 on Tuesday occurred the same day that two buses were blown up in Israel, referring to the latest suicide bombings in the Middle East.


Chechen militants have seized hostages before, most notably 8 at a Moscow theater in October 2002 when 800 people were held for three days before troops used a knock-out gas and stormed the building. Sum 130 of the hostages died in the incident.


While denouncing terrorist actions, many world leaders have also urged the Russian president to seek some kind of political solution to the Chechen conflict.


Bill Gasperini, VOA news, Moscow.


 


注释:
storm 突袭
blow up 爆炸
Ingushetia 英古什人(居住在北高加索山区的穆斯林民族)
North Ossetia 北奥塞梯
Chechnya 车臣
metro 地铁
hostage 人质
denounce 谴责


 


 



激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He was imprisoned for two concurrent terms of 30 months and 18 months. 他被判处30个月和18个月的监禁,合并执行。
  • They were imprisoned for possession of drugs. 他们因拥有毒品而被监禁。
n.客机,班机( airliner的名词复数 )
  • The fog grounded the airliners. 大雾迫使班机停飞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They placed very stable and accurate atomic clocks on regularly scheduled jet airliners. 他们将非常稳定、准确的原子钟装在定期飞行的喷气式班机上。 来自辞典例句
n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 );投弹手;安非他明胶囊;大麻叶香烟
  • Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.仅仅,唯一地
  • Success should not be measured solely by educational achievement.成功与否不应只用学业成绩来衡量。
  • The town depends almost solely on the tourist trade.这座城市几乎完全靠旅游业维持。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.地铁;adj.大都市的;(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国,主要经营零售)
  • Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗?
  • The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。
adv.值得注意地,显著地,尤其地,特别地
  • Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席,特别是连班长也没来。
  • A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小,一头银发,每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。
学英语单词
afetal
against one's grain
ammoresinol
amur cork-tree
anisomorphism
antiatherosclerosis
apple orchard
Bernhardt, Sarah
bheurs
binary code element set
blast air receiver
bounded uniform space
buffalograsses
cold reserve
collision avoidance radar
commotional
comparisons
data enable
Deaur. pil.
delay, node
dimorphic colony
disintergation
disulfocyanic acid
dual lens
education on demand
electric coil
Eugenia jambos
extranuclear nucleolus
fermionized
fillet brazing
film (conductance) coefficient
fischer rat (f344)
fixed on
Flos Chrysanthemi Indici
fluprednisolone
forced-circulation steam generator
fuer in fait
give someone the bum's rush
glucoverodoxin
high frequency communication
houchen
Ipomoea pavonii
IS10
iterative attenuation coefficient
keran
Knox, Henry
lamellibranchiate dentition
light bulb torus
local mean noon
lock stitch
Mach region
manang
micklethwait
mitospores
monel clad steel
monodichlamydeous
Mullaghbeg
multiple lipoma
multiply operation
myotenositis
nonindicating controller
nonproteogenic
oberkirchers
original horizontality
palmula
paracaecal
partially ordered set
Parvex
pilot (control) port
piozzis
platin-
productive procrastination
quick-response voltage control
recoil species
sandpapered nails
Schmidt corrector
screw up one's courage
self regulation
sensory rhizotomy of trigeminal nerve
short-hand
shotaro
sight ramp
single sensor
stagiaires
support(ing) skirt
syllogismhood
take freedoms with sb
theory of limit
tithes
to make sb acquainted with...
traveling comfort
trigesimal
turi
tweaky
twisting paper
uncellable bonds
unreversing
us-installeds
valve grinding emerypaste
VSEPR theory
vulgar latins
water-damage cargo