时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(七月)


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By Gary Thomas
Tehran
14 July 2006


A senior Iranian religious leader Friday defended Hezbollah and called on Muslims and non-Muslims alike to rally to its support.  Iran has had a long and close association with Hezbollah, which the U.S. lists as a terrorist group.


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Friday prayers in Tehran are traditionally a cross between a religious revival 1 meeting and a political rally, and this Friday was no exception.


After his sermon on the piety 2 of the Prophet Mohammad's daughter Fatima, whose birthday is this Sunday, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani, the designated leader for this Friday's prayers, turned to more current affairs for his second sermon, which is usually the political one.  



Iran's former President Mohammad Khatami, right, talks with Iran's senior cleric Emami Kashani (file photo)  
  
Kashani lashed 3 out at Israel for its attacks on Lebanon and praised Hezbollah, the virulently 4 anti-Israel Islamic militia 5 that kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.


Kashani said Hezbollah had total legal and political justification 6 to act as it did because Israel refused to release Palestinian prisoners.


He said it was the religious duty of Muslims to support Hezbollah, and called on Muslims and non-Muslims alike to encourage the group.


Kashani's exhortations 7 were met with chants of "Death to Israel" and "Death to America." 


After the prayers, there was a "death to Israel' rally near the prayer site.


President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also had some harsh rhetoric 8 about Israel and the West during a trip this week to northern Iran.  The Iranian Student News Agency reported that President Ahmadinejad called Syrian President Bashir Assad, and quotes the Iranian leader as saying that any attack by Israel on Syria would be considered a call to war by the Islamic world.


There are reports that Hezbollah was trying to move the two captured Israeli soldiers to Iran, but there has been no confirmation 9 of that here or elsewhere.


Iran and Hezbollah have long been linked.  Founded in Lebanon in 1982 after the Israeli invasion, Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim organization that took its inspiration from the 1979 Iranian revolution.  Most Western analysts 10 believe it gets considerable support from the Iranian government.  The United States lists Hezbollah as a terrorist group.


The organization, which also holds seats in the Lebanese parliament, has strong support among most Iranians.


Hussain Geraee, who describes himself as a "low-ranking civil servant", says Iranians are willing to fight to the death to defend Hezbollah, just as they did in the long Iran-Iraq war.



n.复兴,复苏,(精力、活力等的)重振
  • The period saw a great revival in the wine trade.这一时期葡萄酒业出现了很大的复苏。
  • He claimed the housing market was showing signs of a revival.他指出房地产市场正出现复苏的迹象。
n.虔诚,虔敬
  • They were drawn to the church not by piety but by curiosity.他们去教堂不是出于虔诚而是出于好奇。
  • Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.经验使我们看到虔诚与善意之间有着巨大的区别。
adj.具睫毛的v.鞭打( lash的过去式和过去分词 );煽动;紧系;怒斥
  • The rain lashed at the windows. 雨点猛烈地打在窗户上。
  • The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy. 这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
恶毒地,狠毒地
  • An old woman advanced a few paces to shake her fist virulently in my face. 一个老女人上前了几步,在我面前恶毒地晃动着她的拳头。
  • In the wake of unrest in Tibet in March, a virulently xenophobic mood swept the country. 随着三月份的西藏骚乱,一种充满敌意的排外情绪横扫了这个国家。
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。
n.正当的理由;辩解的理由
  • There's no justification for dividing the company into smaller units. 没有理由把公司划分成小单位。
  • In the young there is a justification for this feeling. 在年轻人中有这种感觉是有理由的。
n.敦促( exhortation的名词复数 );极力推荐;(正式的)演讲;(宗教仪式中的)劝诫
  • The monuments of men's ancestors were the most impressive exhortations. 先辈们的丰碑最能奋勉人心的。 来自辞典例句
  • Men has free choice. Otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. 人具有自由意志。否则,劝告、赞扬、命令、禁规、奖赏和惩罚都将是徒劳的。 来自辞典例句
n.修辞学,浮夸之言语
  • Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗?
  • Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后,他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
n.证实,确认,批准
  • We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
  • We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前,我们需要书面确认。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
学英语单词
18-hydroxydesoxycorticosterone
a luck break
aeration equipment
alangimarckine
antipanic lighting
balance crank
be on the stick
Belfast(Aldergrove)Airport
block-printing
broaden one's horizon
burster tube
Canada turpenting
caption signal generator
charge conversion
clean toilet
collection of books
consistent asymptotically normal estimate
continuous gas carburizer
coumarin plants
Cunene, Prov.de
deoxynucleotide polymerase
disinhabitable
disk of hyperbolic section
dubbed out
eichhorn
eklof
electronic circuitry
Enviropig
feeder assembly
full of the moon
gaborit
gammiest
greenkin
Hachon
high temperature property tester of mold sand
hydroscopic coefficient
iliac tuberosity
immunoprecipitant
indirect emission
is here
isabnormal line
know sth inside out
Kronshtadt
lepidum
licks
linkage interrupt
loop monitoring system
lovecrafts
Lukovnikovo
magnipotence
maintenance method by ice plug
metal oxide semiconductor integrated circuit
method of separation of variables
Minimum-variance frontier
monocrystalline ingot
Mr.Cool
multirope friction winder
Munronia hainanensis
musk cats
narrow band pass filter
neocerebellum
newwaves
normal vector cardiogram
one-way input tape
outside screw
over-toil
overbulks
overwear
pansy orchids
participating policy
pentecostys
permanente
phenylbenzoic acid
planning method for universal parts
postcerebral
postmortem destruction
power input to compressor
prunus mume var.viridicalyx makino
pseudofertility
puccinia cirsii
ratchet rack
reflexology
regionalizes
release plan
resail
resected air station
sa'id
Saturnian low-energy thermal plasmas
shale gases
simulation of random event
sirly
springalls
stockbreading
thiochromone
thrust efficiency
tickler
typical hydrograph
unrestrict
vanadium(iv) fluoride
video frequency channel
wallich
zygomaticoorbital foramen