2006年VOA标准英语-Hezbollah Offers Journalists Tour of Beirut Nei
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（七月）
By Challiss McDonough
Beirut
20 July 2006
VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has been reporting from Beirut since last week, but has only rarely been able to venture into the southern suburbs, which have been heavily bombed. Hezbollah's offices are there, its radio and television stations are there, and the home of its leader Hassan Nasrallah is there, and all of them have been repeatedly struck. Thursday Challiss and other journalists went on a bizarre guided tour of the devastation 1 led by the Hezbollah spokesman. Challiss recorded this report from the scene.
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A baby tricycle is left behind among the rubble 2 of destroyed buildings in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon
"This is Challiss McDonough. I'm in a neighborhood in south Beirut. We're being taken on a tour by the spokesman for Hezbollah. He's been showing us, a large number of journalists, the damage from recent bombing raids. I'm now standing 3 next to a building that was apparently 4 hit quite recently. There's still smoke coming out of the pile of rubble that the building used to be.
The Hezbollah spokesman, Hussein Nabolsi, has been defending his organization against allegations that they, by their actions, have brought this upon the people of Lebanon and brought this upon this neighborhood, that Hezbollah located its headquarters in civilian 5 neighborhoods, thus putting them at risk of this kind of retaliatory 6 attack by the Israelis. The Hezbollah spokesman, very adamant 7, says that Hezbollah is defending Lebanon.
I'm sorry, I'm trying to step over piles of rubble as I'm speaking. The street is just, it's obliterated 8. It's just like there are pieces of bricks and twisted metal strewn everywhere from building after building after building that's been demolished 9. We're seeing weird 10 remnants of things that have survived intact. Theres a plastic chair in the middle of the road, a child's teddy bear and a wicker basket. There's a shoe. There's a perfectly 11 intact envelope from the Islamic Health Society lying on the ground. This neighborhood has been absolutely destroyed. "
- The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
- There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- The process can take years before the WTO approves retaliatory action. 在WTO通过此行动之前，这个程序恐怕要等上一阵子了。 来自互联网
- Retaliatory tariffs on China are tantamount to taxing ourselves as a punishment. 将惩罚性关税强加于中国相当于对我们自己实施课税惩罚。 来自互联网
- We are adamant on the building of a well-off society.在建设小康社会这一点上，我们是坚定不移的。
- Veronica was quite adamant that they should stay on.维罗妮卡坚信他们必须继续留下去。
- The building was completely obliterated by the bomb. 炸弹把那座建筑物彻底摧毁了。
- He began to drink, drank himself to intoxication, till he slept obliterated. 他一直喝，喝到他快要迷糊地睡着了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
- They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。
- From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
- His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。