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
acexamic acid
acute embolism of superior mesenteric artery
addam
agri-chemicals
angle of maximum stability lever
ARSOC
AT cut
atmospheric sounding diagram
aurovertins
backing vacuum
bank exposure
bare-knuckles
be more to sth than meets the eye
bearing compass
burrel flies
cerebellar syndrome
cfu
coal-tar paint
college-admissions
congenital ventricular septal defect
conjugate element
contact group
cottontail rabbit
creeping wood sorrel
cross-current solvent extraction
cryptanalyst
cursor blink
Dasyatis centroura
database logical organization
dodecander
ecosystem hierarchical model
emergency instructions
encarta
family of a soldier
fell in love
Fellow's gear shaper
fouowing
franklyns
Fuamnach
gazon
give sb a fair show
glycol monoethyl ether
half-value dose
heartseases
high dose tolerance
high writing speed oscilloscope tube
inalterableness
incidental transaction
insulating measuring bench
international trade product life cycle
Ionian
Iqalummiut
jaw and toothed coupling
kineplastics
Kirley
La-penne-Sur-Huveaune
lewis theory of acids and bases
long interest
lydda (lod)
magnamite
material compatibility with propellants
meatheaded
molybdenyl bromide
Moussala
non working current
nozzle chamber
nucleus motorius nervi trigemini
Nyquist flank
Ochrobactrum
Okola
palpicorns
passenger distributing volume
peremptory plea
picea shreukiana fishch. et mey
plumb rules
pluripotential hemopoietic stem cell
Principle of Agony of the Moment
project history
rabbit fever
RHYTHMOS
rocques
scarification
scattering state
self-management skill
sensitized zone
shortwave cloud radiative forcing
Sikkimese
single riveting
smudge pots
special automatic vacuum welding chamber
tanasul
transplutonium elements
trichromatic
tungstites
twenty-high roll mill
uniao de marara
Uskedal
Vanityhydrazone
water-polo
wild young man
yeast serum
yellow-gray