时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2015年8月


英语课

 We're starting in Syria. The situation in this Middle Eastern country is the world's largest humanitarian 1 crisis. That's according to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in Syria's on-going civil wars, started in 2011. More than 11 million have fled their homes. And the ISIS terrorist group, which wants to create its own country, has taken over large parts of Syria. Amid everything that's going on, ISIS is destroying historic artifacts. The Muslim militants 2 have taken aim at many relics 3 that aren't associated with Muslim culture. They recently murdered a Syrian professor who refused to pledge to ISIS and to tell them where certain archeological treasures are in the Syrian city of Palmyra. He wasn't the only Syrian peacefully defending his county's artifacts.


This is the centerpiece in the heart of the Syrian Antiquities 4 Ministry's efforts to save this country's cultural heritage, of course, in this time of the civil war. What you can see here is these volunteers here are cataloguing small pieces we can look at them, of artifacts that have been found in various places here in the country. Of course, some of them in places that are now controlled by ISIS.
Now, all of them are going to get a number, and then afterwards, what's going to happen is they're going to go to the station over here where you can see that all these pieces are photographed. And the folks here have already done an amazing amount of work. They've catalogued more than 150,000 pieces already, 35,000 of those from the Palmyra area alone. So, they've been working a lot and under very difficult conditions, because this building here has taken mortar 5 rounds in the past. There have been scientists from this building that have been killed and yet the folks come here almost everyday to continue this work.

1 humanitarian
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
2 militants
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。
3 relics
[pl.]n.遗物,遗迹,遗产;遗体,尸骸
  • The area is a treasure house of archaeological relics. 这个地区是古文物遗迹的宝库。
  • Xi'an is an ancient city full of treasures and saintly relics. 西安是一个有很多宝藏和神圣的遗物的古老城市。
4 antiquities
n.古老( antiquity的名词复数 );古迹;古人们;古代的风俗习惯
  • There is rest and healing in the contemplation of antiquities. 欣赏古物有休息和疗养之功。 来自辞典例句
  • Bertha developed a fine enthusiasm for the antiquities of London. 伯沙对伦敦的古迹产生了很大的热情。 来自辞典例句
5 mortar
n.灰浆,灰泥;迫击炮;v.把…用灰浆涂接合
  • The mason flushed the joint with mortar.泥工用灰浆把接缝处嵌平。
  • The sound of mortar fire seemed to be closing in.迫击炮的吼声似乎正在逼近。
学英语单词
acetylenic polymer
adenocyst
akrofollin
and so to bed
archeokinetic
arteria gastrica breves
atsushi
available wavelength
bay cable
biosynthesized
canon in seventh
chronic superfi cial gastritis
cintron
clamping mechanism
codiagonal morphism
colliding-beam source
common size statement
company tax
compensator winding
constant-level control
CSTR
cursitory
dial-a-rides
diamidines
dollar countries
electric-impulse stimulation
electrostrictions
epitheme
estafas
fanboys
final evaporator
fleil
get horns on one's head
Golden Bull of Emperor Charles IV
halide disc
have had one's chips
heptadecamer
hoovering up
hphc
industry segments
initial cycle
International Latitude Service
International Wanted Notice
isotope equilibrium
italite
jacquard knitting
jeopardising
king of hearts
kroun
Lindenbergia grandiflora
loop-pile fabric
Majda
maximizing land power
mehring
mesoxerophytic
microminiaturisations
mineral membrane electrode
minstrel gallery
mittal
molasses pump
non-violently
nonsense-mediated mrna decay
nuclear exclusion
Oysha
performance-approach
pipling
plasteriness
plastic working machine
prb
pre-evaporator
psychoendocrinological pharmacology
psycrophyte
puckhandling
qaims
reactance tube oscillator
remorse
retrospiciant
rock-forming
Sasuri Falls
semiterete
ship lifter
ship propulsion point method
sifted through
subcatalog and file level
tail light
taspine
terao
tetra-amylose
the reverse side
total energy system
type bar printer
uredinopsis hirosakiensis kamei et hiratsuka f.
vacant channel
velocity to prevent erosion
Veronica chamaedrys
verye
vicinages
wet sipping facility
wild grain
witen
wye bearing
yamguen