时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(十月)


英语课

By Cathy Majtenyi
Nairobi
23 October 2006


 The Somali government says it has control over a town that experienced a battle with the Islamic Courts Sunday.






The Somali government says it has control over a town that experienced a battle with the Islamic Courts Sunday.
 
 


 
 
 




The coordinator 1 of Somali affairs in Kenya, Mohamed Ali Nur Americo, tells VOA that, as of Monday morning local time, government troops are controlling the town of Buale, more than 80 kilometers north of the port city of Kismayo.


"As far as we are concerned, this morning the minister of defense 2 and his forces are in Buale," he said. "They are controlling that area. If there's any further counterattack, the ministry 3 of defense and its forces are ready to defend themselves and defend the area."


Buale Sunday was the scene of a fierce battle between fighters aligned 4 to the Islamic Courts Union and government troops. At least five people were reportedly killed in the fighting.


The French news agency quoted Islamic officials as saying that they had chased away members of the area's militia 5 Juba Valley Alliance and had taken their armed vehicles.


Islamist commander Sheikh Yakubu Ali told the French news agency, AFP, that the Islamic Courts Union is controlling Buale.


Meanwhile, government troops have reportedly withdrawn 6 from the town of Burhakaba, located about 60 kilometers southeast of Baidoa where the government is based, following fighting there Saturday, also between government troops and Islamic Courts Union fighters. Somali news websites quote a local Islamic court leader as saying the Islamic Courts Union has re-taken control of Burhakaba.


The coordinator of Somali affairs in Kenya Americo tells VOA Islamist fighters have gathered in a small town called Lego near Burhakaba.


"The report that we had last night was that the Islamic Courts were in a small town called Lego," he said. "But as of this morning there was no counter-attack from the Islamic Courts and there was no fighting."


Government troops took control of Burhakaba from the Islamists on October 9, which appeared to be the first major advance against the Islamic Courts Union by the Somali government.


The Islamic Courts Union first started expanding control in June, when its militias 7 control of the capital, Mogadishu. It has since captured much of southern Somalia.


Somalia's interim 8 government and the Islamic Courts Union have been trying to negotiate a peace agreement that would see some sort of a power-sharing arrangement between them. The two met in Sudan last month, and are scheduled to finalize 9 their agreement at the end of this month.


The two sides are also deadlocked 10 over the issue of a regional peacekeeping force that the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development has offered, and, which the African Union has endorsed 11.


The courts are vehemently 12 opposed to having foreign peacekeepers in Somalia, while the government supports such a move. The courts also maintain that Ethiopian troops have crossed over into Somalia to support the Somali government, a claim the government denies.


The ICU has declared a "holy war" against Ethiopian troops allegedly on Somali territory, saying in a statement Monday that "their graves would litter the country."


Since civil war broke out in 1991, militias loyal to clan 13 and sub-clan-based factions 14 have controlled different parts of the country, with no central authority to provide law and order and even basic services to the population.


A transitional Somali parliament was formed in Kenya more than a year ago following a peace process.



n.协调人
  • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下,负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
  • How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室?
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
adj.对齐的,均衡的
  • Make sure the shelf is aligned with the top of the cupboard.务必使搁架与橱柜顶端对齐。
n.民兵,民兵组织
  • 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。
vt.收回;使退出;vi.撤退,退出
  • Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
  • All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。
n.民兵组织,民兵( militia的名词复数 )
  • The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
  • The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网
adj.暂时的,临时的;n.间歇,过渡期间
  • The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
  • It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
v.落实,定下来
  • Let us finalize tonight.让我们今天晚上干完
  • 。At the same time,industrial designers work with engineers to finalize components and assembly.同时,工业设计师和工程师一道来完成部件和组装部分的工作。
陷入僵局的;僵持不下的
  • The plan deadlocked over the funds. 这个计划由于经费问题而搁浅了。
  • The meeting deadlocked over the wage issue. 会议因工资问题而停顿下来。
vt.& vi.endorse的过去式或过去分词形式v.赞同( endorse的过去式和过去分词 );在(尤指支票的)背面签字;在(文件的)背面写评论;在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品
  • The committee endorsed an initiative by the chairman to enter discussion about a possible merger. 委员会通过了主席提出的新方案,开始就可能进行的并购进行讨论。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The government has broadly endorsed a research paper proposing new educational targets for 14-year-olds. 政府基本上支持建议对14 岁少年实行新教育目标的研究报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv. 热烈地
  • He argued with his wife so vehemently that he talked himself hoarse. 他和妻子争论得很激烈,以致讲话的声音都嘶哑了。
  • Both women vehemently deny the charges against them. 两名妇女都激烈地否认了对她们的指控。
n.氏族,部落,宗族,家族,宗派
  • She ranks as my junior in the clan.她的辈分比我小。
  • The Chinese Christians,therefore,practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.所以,中国的基督徒简直是被逐出了自己的家族了。
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 )
  • The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
  • rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别
学英语单词
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acidity
aerosol food
afghanistani
alloy irons
antibiolumphin
ashpan blower valve
automatic assembly
avi cable
bakeout degassing clamp
birchleaf pear
body-curved disease
bodywood
bottom relief map
Bozeman's position
bridge cloth
bullock blocks
bushing electric
call accepted signal
chondriomere
Cirbanal
close set
color constants
comebackers
commodity wastage
correptions
courier bag
Cunaxa
departmentation by process or equipment
electronic fire-control equipment
element name
encoded fields
end of astronomical evening twilight
engine pod
ensampling
epss network
featurism
ferret distemper virus
fiber-map
full electronic switching
gallucci
general-purpose diagnostic program
geographical north
geospatial engineering
glowfly
haberse
hardware stage
hexagonal mirror
hot penetration construction
Hudsonian godwit
Immobilon
interstitial distance (mather 1936)
investigation on audience
Krasnaya Polyana
layer-wound solenoid
leather loader
limestone neutralization treatment
maximal tubular excretory capacity
melanedema
natural rate of unemployment
nerr
non-coplanar transfer
norvasc
nosedives
OMR (optical mark reader)
optically positive
over bridges
partner with
Pashtunwali
patung series
paving stone degeneration of retina
permanent magnet moving coil meter
pivoted bucket carrier
plantar spaces
plunged into
prince fumimaro konoyes
prodan
psychoanalytical theory
Pterocles
pyrophoric lead
raw material of woodcharcaol
roller chamfer
schwab
Scythians
sequentially-lobed radar
signal smoke
signe de peau d'orange
slugft
So it goes
sp vol
spin space
Stackelberg decision theory
swansea
tandem electrostatic generator
terry swatch
the leaflets of the trifoliolate leaves
topochemical control
variable acceptance sampling
viscosity model
Warenford
weighing-appliance
zeomorphis