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


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By Nancy-Amelia Collins
Jakarta
23 October 2006 





 
 
Indonesian Muslims pray during the start of celebrations for the Eid al Fitr holiday at parangkusumo beach in Yogyakarta, October 23, 2006
Indonesian Muslims pray during the start of celebrations for the Eid al Fitr holiday at parangkusumo beach in Yogyakarta, October 23, 2006


 
 
 



Indonesian officials say they will release at least two Islamic militants 1 in jail for involvement in the 2002 terrorist bombings on the resort island of Bali, to mark the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. 


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As Indonesians prepare to celebrate the holiday, Eid al-Fitr, prison officials say they will release at least two Muslim militants on Tuesday, the day most people will celebrate the end of the holy month.


Jakarta traditionally reduces prison sentences on holidays for prisoners who show good conduct.


Indonesia has suffered a series of bombings blamed on the al Qaida-linked regional terrorist organization, Jemaah Islamiyah. The government has arrested and jailed more than 300 Muslim militants, in an effort to combat terrorist attacks during the last four years.


Previous early releases of militants have prompted criticism of Indonesia from Australia and the United States.


This week in Indonesia, a secular 2 nation with the world's largest Muslim population, few people will be thinking about terrorism, however. They will be flocking to the provinces to spend time with their families to mark Eid, also known as Lebaran in Indonesia.


Jaya, a 41-year-old businessman, has been living overseas for more than 20 years. He has just arrived in Jakarta from Bangkok, and is getting ready to take another flight to his hometown of Bengkulu on Sumatra island.


"I already booked a flight to go to Bengkulu on Tuesday and I'm going to give a surprise to my Mom on that day I come for Lebaran, so I'm sure she will be surprised," he said.


On the morning of Eid, Muslims gather together at mosques 4, fields and other open spaces to pray together.


After morning prayers, when Muslims are supposed to be reborn and pure from the previous month of fasting, the extended family gathers together to eat and celebrate.


In Indonesia, it is also tradition to visit the graves of relatives, and ask forgiveness from family members and friends for any wrongdoing committed during the past year.


Arcis, a single woman who works in Jakarta, will also be traveling to her family home in West Java to celebrate Eid.


"The most important thing for me is seeing my family," she said. "From a religious point of view, well, everyone is there. And we pray together. We go to the mosque 3 together, and then we have our dinner, the whole family, the extended family. So, it feels beautiful."


While most Indonesians will begin Eid celebrations on Tuesday, members of Muhammadiyah, the nation's second largest Muslim organization began celebrations Monday, based on their astronomical 5 calculations of the changing moon.



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。
n.牧师,凡人;adj.世俗的,现世的,不朽的
  • We live in an increasingly secular society.我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会。
  • Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates.英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。
n.清真寺
  • The mosque is a activity site and culture center of Muslim religion.清真寺为穆斯林宗教活动场所和文化中心。
  • Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order.几年前,清真寺钟楼里的大钟失灵了。
清真寺; 伊斯兰教寺院,清真寺; 清真寺,伊斯兰教寺院( mosque的名词复数 )
  • Why make us believe that this tunnel runs underneath the mosques? 为什么要让我们相信这条隧洞是在清真寺下?
  • The city's three biggest mosques, long fallen into disrepair, have been renovated. 城里最大的三座清真寺,过去年久失修,现在已经修复。
adj.天文学的,(数字)极大的
  • He was an expert on ancient Chinese astronomical literature.他是研究中国古代天文学文献的专家。
  • Houses in the village are selling for astronomical prices.乡村的房价正在飙升。
学英语单词
adhesive disk
adqulis
air parcel trajectory
aluminum busbar
backraking
bezoglioxaline
blagga
botanizer
bridge steel plate
burmannii
caffeine tannate
cell differential pressure photo
chainings
Changjiang Ship Design Institute
cnyn
coloplex
company-types
comparative profit and loss statment
conical spiral
crepons
CTAN
cutting edge rounding
cycle flicker
D.R.V.
dangerous substance
decanedicarboxylic acid
defound
demecolcine
dideoxies
dominionist
dorsal lobe
Eckerö
eggcup
erysipelaceous
existing plant
face thrust
false-friend
faruq
fuegians
gastroneurosis
hand-printed character recognition
hearo
Hepatest
hyperammonemias
ice maker
individual properties
interfering element
intravascular laser irradiation therapy
jasomirgott
landau ghost
large-hearted
laser cut mask
Leonurus deminutus
light-diffusing
linear PCM
liposcelis divinatoriuss
lyriform pore
Mallesons
metric system
multi-purpose hall
myzus varians
natural interest
Newtonian reflector
Peganum harmala
PFHR
piceno
Pilea hamaoi
pluto project
primary pneumonic plague
progonal
quality control of life
radiometals
Raymond-Cestan syndrome
read someone out of
resolving method
right of ownership in movables
robelo
Roopville
Rottenmann
rough-stemmed goldenrod
sediment storage capacity of reservoir
selftimer
septuples
sex-kitten
shot his mouth off
single pulse voltmeter
single-direction thrust bearing
sipps
spar-deck ship
spinaris
stopping cross section
tadpole
temporary rile
twenty-ones
uncreation
unexploded cartridge
urinary tubule
Urrós
vegetation continuum concept
venae emissaria parietalis
witmark
Yengan