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英语课
By Stefan Bos
Budapest
24 September 2007


The European Union has condemned 1 a bomb blast that killed at least two people and injured nearly a dozen others in Serbia's Kosovo Province. Stefan Bos reports for VOA from Budapest there is rising tension in the region before EU-backed international negotiations 2 between independence-seeking ethnic 3 Albanians and Serbia, which wants to retain sovereignty over the troubled province.


 


Police investigators 4 and witnesses said the blast was so powerful that it scattered 5 chairs and glass across what is known as the Bill Clinton Boulevard in Kosovo's capital, Pristina. Part of a building collapsed 6 and at least a dozen shops, cafes and restaurants were destroyed.


 


Bertrand Bonneau, a spokesman of the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR, told VOA news that while rescue work was underway, international peacekeepers sealed off the area, amid fears of another attack.


 


"We have people who are trained in de-mining and things like that," he said. "That is why KFOR was involved. Just to secure the area from any remaining bombs or things like that."


 


No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and investigators have not ruled out that the bombing was part of a war between the Serbian province's mushrooming criminal gangs.


 


The European Union has expressed concerns about the blast at a time of rising tension between Kosovo's independence seeking ethnic Albanian majority, and minority Serbs who want to remain part of Serbia.


 


Spokeswoman Krisztina Nagy of the European Commission, the EU executive, made clear that it is crucial that the U.N. mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, take part in investigating the reasons behind the attack.


 


"About this tragic 7 explosion that happened in Pristina," she said. "We deplore 8 the loss of all human lives. And our thoughts are with the families and friends of the victims and with the injured . We wish them a speedy recovery. We trust that UNMIK police will carry out the investigation 9 into the reasons of this blast. And that the perpetrators will be brought to justice."


Kosovo has been under United Nations administration since 1999, after a NATO bombing campaign forced Serb troops to withdraw and end their bloody 10 crackdown on ethnic Albanians.


 


Representatives of Serbia and ethnic Albanians, who comprise 90 percent of Kosovo's two million population, are to hold negotiations on the territory's future Friday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.




协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的
  • Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来,塞进文件夹里。
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的
  • The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
  • Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
vt.哀叹,对...深感遗憾
  • I deplore what has happened.我为所发生的事深感愤慨。
  • There are many of us who deplore this lack of responsibility.我们中有许多人谴责这种不负责任的做法。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
adj.非常的的;流血的;残忍的;adv.很;vt.血染
  • He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
  • He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。
学英语单词
air bearing disk
air inlet pressure stabilizing chamber
alleged
atomic number 6
Axenfeld
azander
bacillogenous
basicoxite
behind the veil
black bag job
blasted off
bounce something around
bulkhead (bhd)
bulwark rail
burst information rate
caravaners
cargo temperature control
Carral
Chapecó, R.
cordss
corpse powder
corpuscular-radiation pressure
cybertherapeutic
deca-ohm
demonstration model
differential range
direct ballottement
entopic
Essequibo R.
exciting advance
F.A.C.P., FACP
familly
fore-vouched
frost shattering
gamma-leakage spectrum (reactor)
glynco
guenon
high power load
ignition equipment
in inverse order
incandesced
internally-specified index
Kalahari Desert
koninklijkes
lanthanides
lepiota gracilenta
low-heels
luminescent crystal
malevesyn
malurid
mastik
Matakaoa Pt.
meniscus injury
middle lamella pectin
Neckar River
nerundine
neuroelectrotherapeutics
New York minute
nonrotating disk
nose-to-nose separation
orchestrions
particle correlation
phyllosticta fragaricola desm.et roberge
pilot hoist
porcelain shells
portee
primitive forest
Priority.
public juristic person
query service
radio set
remedial class
residronate
ressie
rewth
rhythmising
ride roughshod over something
Rodeon
route distribution
rudder house
second stage unit
Sedum dumulosum
selfsamenesses
shake the dust from one's feet
siadz
squall front
steroid
stickiness
stosstruppen
stress in ligaments
teredo
thread cap
thread snake
time-element control
titrimetric analysis
Trunci
uroporphyrin(UP)
us sec
vertical double-diffused mosfets
whelks
wilms's tumor
X-ray resist