2006年VOA标准英语-Indian Prime Minister Vows to Fight Terror
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（七月）
By Anjana Pasricha
New Delhi
12 July 2006
A day after India's financial capital, Bombay, was hit by a series of powerful explosions on commuter 1 trains, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the country to stand united in the face of terrorism.
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Manmohan Singh addresses the nation on television
In a nationally televised address, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said India will not be beaten by terrorism.
"No one can make India kneel," he said. "No one can come in the path of our progress. The wheels of our economy will move on. India will continue to walk tall and with confidence. Let me assure you, the government will do whatever is required to deal with the challenge at hand."
The prime minister praised the courage with which the city had resumed normal life after the blasts.
In Bombay, police said it was too early to say who might have been responsible for the powerful bomb blasts that killed hundreds of commuters.
Maharashtra State Police Director-General P.S. Pasricha said explosives and weapons seized in recent months had indicated that the thriving financial capital was a potential terrorist target.
"The country is on the path to progress, so naturally some anti-national elements would not be very comfortable with that," said Pasricha. "They would like to play that kind of mischief 2 to see that our progress is hampered 3, and the fear psychosis is created to stop investments."
Pasricha said the coordinated 4 explosions were in the style of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Muslim militant 5 group active in Indian Kashmir. The group has been blamed in the past for carrying out near-simultaneous explosions in cities including the capital, New Delhi.
But Lashkar-e-Taiba and another Kashmiri Islamist group, the Hizb-ul-Mujhaideen, strongly denied any role in Tuesday's blasts.
School children walk past site of explosion before catching 6 early morning suburban 7 train to school at Mahim railway station of Bombay, July 12, 2006
The scars of the bombings are evident everywhere in Bombay. Overwhelmed hospitals struggled to cope with the hundreds of injured. Many of Bombay's 16 million inhabitants, who include the country's richest people and residents of Asia's largest slums - spent the day hunting for missing relatives.
Local television stations ran pictures of missing people and messages from loved ones.
But Bombay did not remain in the grip of fear for long. Less than 24 hours after the bombs stunned 8 the city, schools and colleges opened. Services were restored on the suburban rail network, and many commuters rode on the trains despite apprehensions 9.
Stock markets rose by nearly three percent, calming fears that investor 10 confidence in India's rising economy had been undermined by the blasts.
Bombay is India's commercial nerve center, home to many corporate 11 headquarters and a thriving movie industry. India wants to make the city an Asian financial hub.
- Police cordoned off the road and diverted commuter traffic. 警察封锁了道路并分流交通。
- She accidentally stepped on his foot on a crowded commuter train. 她在拥挤的通勤列车上不小心踩到了他的脚。
- Nobody took notice of the mischief of the matter. 没有人注意到这件事情所带来的危害。
- He seems to intend mischief.看来他想捣蛋。
- The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
- So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
- The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
- The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
- Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
- Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
- There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
- He stood in a mixture of desire and apprehensions. 他怀着渴望和恐惧交加的心情伫立着。
- But subsequent cases have removed many of these apprehensions. 然而，随后的案例又消除了许多类似的忧虑。
- My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
- The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。