VOA标准英语2008年-Women and Children Among Hostages in Jammu Mili
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年（八月）
Indian forces in Kashmir say they have killed one of three suspected Muslim militants 1 who are holding about half a dozen hostages including women and children. Shahnawaz Khan reports for VOA from Srinagar police say the militants killed at least three people on the outskirts 2 of Kashmir's Hindu-dominated winter capital of Jammu.
Indian soldiers take positions at the scene of a gun battle in Jammu, India, 27 Aug 2008
Police officials say the suspected Muslim militants were being tracked by police after slipping across the border from Pakistan on Tuesday. After a gunbattle with police the militants fled into a house, taking seven people, including women and children hostage.
Inspector 3 General of Police for Jammu Province, K. Rajendra, said police are taking precautions to ensure the safety of the hostages.
"Our efforts are to first evacuate 4 the civilians 5 and then go for the final action," he said. "We are exercising maximum restraint to ensure the civilians are safe. We have every apprehension 6 that the terrorists may harm the civilians."
Rajendra says police are also looking for more infiltrators in the Jammu region.
The Inspector General says the militants are trying to exploit the unrest in Hindu-dominated Jammu regions.
"These militants for sure have come with a specific and single point objective of creating communal 7 trouble in Jammu," he said.
Tension has run high in the region since June, when the government announced plans to transfer land in a Muslim-majority area to a Hindu shrine 8. Muslim protests prompted the government to rescind 9 the plan, angering Hindus.
The controversy 10 has stirred Hindu protests in Jammu province, and Muslim protests in the Kashmir Valley where they have snowballed into mass pro-freedom demonstrations 11.
Kashmir is divided between Pakistan and India but claimed by both. Muslim separatists have been fighting for Kashmir's independence from India, or for its merger 12 with Muslim-dominated Pakistan, since 1989
Security forces have detained at least four Muslim separatist leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Geelani and Mohammed Yasin Malik, including the head of Kashmir's women's separatist group Asiya Andrabi.
- 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。
- Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
- They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
- The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
- The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
- We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
- They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
- 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。
- There were still areas of doubt and her apprehension grew.有些地方仍然存疑，于是她越来越担心。
- She is a girl of weak apprehension.她是一个理解力很差的女孩。
- There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats.在楼梯平台上有一处公共卫生间供4套公寓使用。
- The toilets and other communal facilities were in a shocking state.厕所及其他公共设施的状况极其糟糕。
- The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
- They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。
- They accepted his advice and rescinded the original plan.他们听从了他的劝告，撤销了原计划。
- Trade Union leaders have demanded the government rescind the price rise.工会领导已经要求政府阻止价格上涨。
- That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
- We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
- Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
- The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。