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时间：2018-12-02 作者：英语课 分类：CNN美国有线新闻2017年2月
AZUZ: Fighting has intensified 1 in the eastern European nation of Ukraine. The country got its independence from the Soviet 2 Union in 1991. Today, Ukraine is a nation divided, between people who want to be aligned 3 with Russia, and those who want to be aligned more closely with Europe.
Tensions over this led to the ouster of a former Ukrainian president in 2014. Violence flared 4 up that same year. It's become Europe's most violent crisis in decades.
And though a ceasefire was negotiated in 2015, violence and violations 5 are on the rise.
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is very messy because the ceasefire isn't really holding.
SUBTITLE 6: Why is there conflict in Ukraine?
WALSH: To Russia, Ukraine is it's vital near abroad. You couldn't get more geopolitically, industrially important to Moscow.
But Ukraine itself has been vacillating between getting closer to the E.U., to the West, and retaining its longer term links to Russia. That started back in uprising and revolution in 2004. And in 2014, they kicked out a pro-Russian leader.
And the Russians responded by sending a covert 7 force and annexing 8 the peninsula of Crimea. They then sent slightly more covert operations into the eastern city of Donetsk, where government buildings were taken over and then militia 9, a lot of whom had some pretty serious Russian military support started taking territory.
Since 2014, 2015, that territory has changed hands, gone back and forth 10, sometimes the violence escalating 11. But after a major ceasefire agreement in early 2015, the violence hasn't really stopped. It sort of bubbled along really a quite regular pace. Many see that Moscow have a longer term objective of perhaps linking up those eastern territories with the peninsula of Crimea, so they have a land bridge between them too, and they also want to subject Ukraine to broader political influence.
Ukraine itself, well, it needs to get that territory back, the basic reasons of national pride.
Why is this so important? Well, it's a war happening right on Europe's doorstep, on the European mainland. It pits the European Union against Russia. And hanging in the balance is Ukraine where there are a millions of people suffering deeply now from a war that's been going on for years.
- Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
- The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- This is one of the commonest traffic violations. 这是常见的违反交通规则之例。
- These violations of the code must cease forthwith. 这些违犯法规的行为必须立即停止。
- His new book has a subtitle.他的新书有一个副标题。
- Ah!I don't know why they don't subtitle these movies.唉！我不知道这些电影为什么不打字幕。
- We should learn to fight with enemy in an overt and covert way.我们应学会同敌人做公开和隐蔽的斗争。
- The army carried out covert surveillance of the building for several months.军队对这座建筑物进行了数月的秘密监视。
- In addition to annexing territory, they exacted huge indemnities. 割地之外，又索去了巨大的赔款。
- He succeeded in annexing all the property of Hindley's and the Linton's. 他成功的占有了亨得利和林顿的所有财产。
- First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
- There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
- The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
- He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
- The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句