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英语课
By Deborah Block
Baghdad
24 January 2008

In Iraq, a top police chief was killed in the northern city of Mosul Thursday after a suicide bomber 1 struck officials touring the site of a previous blast. Two other police officers were killed and one U.S. and one Iraqi soldier were wounded.  The attack happened at the site of Wednesday's explosion that killed 34 people and wounded more than 200. VOA's Deborah Block has more from Baghdad.


The violence began as gunmen ambushed 2 officials who were touring Wednesday's blast site in Mosul, the capital of Ninevah province.  The gunmen opened fire on the group, including Ninevah province police director General Saleh Mohammed Hassan, as they walked through the wreckage 3.  The officials fled and, according to a police spokesman, a suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest under an Iraqi police uniform moved toward Hassan's car and detonated his explosives, wounding the police chief.   Hassan was taken to an Iraqi army hospital where he was pronounced dead.  


Wednesday's explosion, at the same site, destroyed a vacant apartment building and adjacent homes, shortly before Iraqi troops came to investigate tips about a weapons cache.  A Mosul local talks about the destruction.


He says our houses collapsed 4 and an alley 5 way was completely destroyed.


In the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, a roadside bomb struck a police car on patrol, killing 6 two officers. The explosion happened in the predominately Shi'ite neighborhood of Karradah in central Baghdad.   Mahdi Mousa saw what happened.


He says the bomb exploded in the morning, wounding two policemen and several civilians 7.  He adds that one of the wounded had serious leg injuries.


American and Iraqi forces have made significant gains in chasing insurgents 8 from Baghdad.  But the U.S. military says some insurgents have fled north into cities like Mosul where violence has intensified 9.




n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
v.埋伏( ambush的过去式和过去分词 );埋伏着
  • The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The military vehicles were ambushed. 军车遭到伏击。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
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。
n.小巷,胡同;小径,小路
  • We live in the same alley.我们住在同一条小巷里。
  • The blind alley ended in a brick wall.这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
v.(使)增强, (使)加剧( intensify的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
  • The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
Abbe prism
acylamido
afro-amerasians
aldgamycin E
articulationes manus
at the tender age of
backward-bladed impeller
bamboo blade
barranquillas
bilateral system
blend flavo(u)ring
bottom emptying skip
Boutonne
Brooklynese
Chicago White Sox
contiguous transmission loss
counter current braking
crassula falcata wondl.
croix
digital equipment computer user society
Dutch account
Economic Commission for the Middle East
electrical circuit theory
error journal output format
family Dicksoniaceae
fault tolerance design
Ficus heteromorpha
FLB
flippin' shit
foraminiferal chalky ooze
forced-flow once-through steam generator
frontoinsular
get icebergs down one's back
give the law to
graded fruits
horizontal huller
hydroma
injectio
interior blue stain
items in transit
joint-use telephone
kingstowne
least-square filter
like a teetotum
local anomaly
Långban
maduros
Mannu, Flumini
metaphrasis
meteor streams
meter resistance
missionary selling
Montemuro, Sa.de
niobo-aeschynite (ce)
nocturnal epilepsy
nonmelanoma
obeasts
oleoatherapy
open - end wrench
open proxy server
Pantostomatinales
Pastov
PC (pulse controller)
pendulum type wet tensile strength tester
penton
pescatoris
phlebobranch
pigeon-pea plant
poison ivy extract
primary weapon
Primula comata
Printer Access Protocol
puntin'
raspite
regioisomer
regulatory data bases
related multiple-outage occurrence
selinuss
sempsters
septs
sexualisable
single-phase sychronous generator
siphon breaker
snow-clearing
sprawled out
st. augustine grasses
stairmasters
subnode
suny-oswego
superimposed coding
Taputapu, C.
therapia
throttle secondary barrel
Tihodaïne, Erg
timps
trunk bulkhead
two way coupling
virtual pitch circle
virtual-world
wu t?ng
you think
yu-tung