时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(一月)


英语课
By Edward Yeranian
Beirut
23 January 2007


Much of Lebanon remains 1 paralyzed, Tuesday, as supporters of the pro-Syrian Hezbollah group block Lebanon's coastal 2 highway and main thoroughfares in Beirut and other cities. From Beirut, Edward Yeranian reports this is all a bid to impose a general strike on the rest of the population.


Lebanese Army troops fired back at demonstrators attacking them with stones in the normally busy Mazraa commercial district, here in Beirut.






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Opposition members throw tire inside burning car on airport highway in Beirut, 23 Jan. 2007



Both the army and police clashed with supporters of the Hezbollah guerrilla group and its allies in other Beirut neighborhoods as demonstrators blocked key avenues and intersections 4 with burning tires and debris 5.


Thick clouds of black smoke also poured into the air, as an army bulldozer tried to reopen Lebanon's main coastal highway, north of the city.


Casualties were reported in the northern port city of Tripoli after government supporters exchanged gunfire with strikers.


A crowd of mostly young demonstrators began blocking the road to Beirut Airport, erecting 6 a barrier of burning tires, early in the morning, and playing soccer on the highway, as army troops and police watched without intervening.


A top opposition leader and Hezbollah ally, General Michel Aoun, accuses the government and its supporters of attacking and injuring some demonstrators.


"Demonstrators were attacked in northern Lebanon, around the port city of Byblos, and in the town of Jounieh, by gangs allied 7 to the government," he said.


Hezbollah's al-Manar TV is continues to broadcast non-stop images of demonstrators burning tires, amid accusations 8 the government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora is not performing its duties to the people.


In Beirut's city center, several rows of army troops, surrounded by barbed wire, mount vigil in front of the prime minister's office, as protesters block traffic along a nearby bridge.


Al-Arabiya TV reports Prime Minister Fuad Siniora remains holed up inside the old refurbished Ottoman fortress 9 that serves as his headquarters, keeping a close tab of the situation.


Mr. Siniora had been expected to leave Beirut, early Tuesday, to attend an international donor's conference in Paris to help relieve some of Lebanon's $41 billion.


Lebanese Minister of Youth and Sport Ahmed Fatfat - a key supporter of the prime minister - complains demonstrators are trying to impose their strike on what he calls "an unwilling 10 population."




n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
n.横断( intersection的名词复数 );交叉;交叉点;交集
  • Traffic lights have been placed at all major intersections. 所有重要的交叉路口都安装了交通信号灯。
  • Intersections are of the greatest importance in highway design. 在道路设计中,交叉口占有最重要的地位。 来自辞典例句
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
v.使直立,竖起( erect的现在分词 );建立
  • Nations can restrict their foreign trade by erecting barriers to exports as well as imports. 象设置进口壁垒那样,各国可以通过设置出口壁垒来限制对外贸易。 来自辞典例句
  • Could you tell me the specific lift-slab procedure for erecting buildings? 能否告之用升板法安装楼房的具体程序? 来自互联网
adj.协约国的;同盟国的
  • Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
  • Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。
n.指责( accusation的名词复数 );指控;控告;(被告发、控告的)罪名
  • There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
  • He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。
n.堡垒,防御工事
  • They made an attempt on a fortress.他们试图夺取这一要塞。
  • The soldier scaled the wall of the fortress by turret.士兵通过塔车攀登上了要塞的城墙。
adj.不情愿的
  • The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
  • His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。
学英语单词
agamogeneses
aprismo
ash handling
background light
barrigenol-A1
block add
bremsstrahlung radiation
Busobuso
capital tie-up
capsulized
cat hole
chrominance-luminance gain inequality
circuit of communication
clinorotation
coconut meat
controverser
Davidia involucrata var. vilmoriniana
daylight-saving time
decade resistivity
Delgereh
depthometer
domhnall
ecohistory
electron tube socket
eucoelom
europos
facular region
fiber ball
field referee
first axiom of countability
flash allowance
Foucault knife-edge test
gadgetbahn
genus Darmera
Goering
grimstad
guggenheim.org
Half a loaf is better than no bread .
heaphone
herbs of grace
high-angle pair of diffraction arcs
hot-cathode magnetron ionization gauge
hyperharmonic function
identical text
identification friend-or-foe radar
indiepops
infrared (star) cluster
jeffreys' prior distribution
Kantaunggyi
Kegels
Kertanagara
Kneitlingen
light-colored mineral
look to your laurels
lord baltimore
LSCI
meatal stenosis
Minkowski space
minor-league club
mottled reddish soil
mq developer
multi-unit tube
naphthodiazine
nine-dragon screen
non-uniform thermal conductivity
old hand
Osmundales
overhead approach
Padstow Bay
peptidomics
peristomal irritant contact dermatitis
photographic recorder
piece basis
plate grip
point of nobalternate
real-time requirements
right-handed separation
risk management summary
rotary lathe
saturated inversion
sausage meat
sealed-off
sheet set
shoba
sliding-velocity
solid injection
spectaculous
sperm-oocyte membrane fusion
sputtering of metals
stakeholder theory
stone fly
terebellidaes
the U.K. tax authorities
to my eye
tormentum intestinorum
tso yu chiao fang
type-founders
unmilitaristic
upscalability
vedolizumab
what's your game
wisaksonite (uranothorite)