时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(二月)


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By George Dwyer
Washington, DC
22 February 2006
 
watch Nigerian Oil report 

Militants 2 in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger River Delta 3 claim to have struck again. Only days after kidnapping a group of foreign oil workers, it now appears they have sabotaged 4 a key production facility, reducing oil exports from Nigeria, and making oil traders nervous.

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Nigerian oil platform attacked by rebels   
  

The most recent violence has caused oil production in Nigeria, one of the worlds top-10 oil producing nations, to drop by 20 percent.  Oil installations belonging to Royal Dutch Shell have been attacked by a militant 1 group. As a result, global prices have risen by about a dollar and a half per barrel. Nigeria supplies 2.8 percent of the world's oil.

The attack comes just days after nine oil workers employed by a U.S.-based oil services firm were taken hostage by militants claiming to belong to the same group, called M-E-N-D.

The Niger River Delta has been wracked with violent ethnic 5 clashes in recent years, with armed groups seeking a greater share of the region's oil and demanding reparations from overseas oil companies for environmental pollution. Continued conflict in the region would likely lead to even higher world oil prices.



adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
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.(流的)角洲
  • He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
  • The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔,形成了一个三角洲。
阴谋破坏(某事物)( sabotage的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The main pipeline supplying water was sabotaged by rebels. 供水主管道被叛乱分子蓄意破坏了。
  • They had no competition because competitors found their trucks burned and sabotaged. 他们之所以没有竞争对象,那是因为竞争对象老是发现自己的卡车遭火烧或被破坏。 来自教父部分
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。
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African wild ass
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Anguria
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liberalization of exchange
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Photinia arguta
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