VOA标准英语2008年-Violence Flares in Pakistan's Swat Region
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年（七月）
Residents of Pakistan's Swat Valley say hundreds of pro-Taliban militants 2 surrounded a security post and abducted 3 at least 25 police officers on Tuesday. Earlier, militants in the region claimed they killed three intelligence agents. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports, the clashes threaten Swat's fragile two-month-old peace accord.
Local residents said hundreds of militants surrounded the security post near the town of Matta on Tuesday, and threatened to kill the police officers inside unless they surrendered. The officers put down their weapons and were forced to march out of town to an undisclosed location.
Earlier, militants claimed responsibility for killing 4 three intelligence agents in Swat on Monday. A spokesman for the group, led by local radical 5 cleric Maulana Fazlullah, said the killings 6 were retribution for the alleged 7 torture of militants in the custody 8 of intelligence agencies.
Last week Fazlullah's top commanders held a high profile meeting in Swat and threatened to end the peace deal that was struck with the provincial 9 government in late May. The militants said the provincial government has too little power and has been unable to stop Pakistani security forces from continuing to arrest fighters in the region. The group said it wants to negotiate a new agreement with the federal government.
On Tuesday, a provincial government representative told VOA that, despite the violence, the existing peace agreement remains 10 intact. Wajid Ali Khan, who helped broker 11 the agreement, urged government officials and Taliban fighters to uphold the deal.
Khan says this agreement came after a long debate, and it remains in effect. He says he hopes that both sides can work to implement 12 the accord before what he called a major disaster happens.
The Swat peace agreement is one of several cease-fire deals brokered 13 by government officials and tribal 14 elders with various militant 1 groups in the country. Nearly all of the groups are located in Pakistan's volatile 15 northwest, where they have banded together into a loose network, led by Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban commander in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region.
The peace accords have been blamed by Afghan and Western military officials for contributing to a spike 16 in violence in neighboring Afghanistan.
- 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。
- 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。
- Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
- The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。
- 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。
- The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
- She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
- His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
- It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
- alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
- He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。
- City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
- Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- He baited the broker by promises of higher commissions.他答应给更高的佣金来引诱那位经纪人。
- I'm a real estate broker.我是不动产经纪人。
- Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
- The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。
- a peace plan brokered by the UN 由联合国出面协商的和平计划
- Your husband brokered the deal to go in, transfrer the assets and get our man out. 你丈夫后来插了一脚，把生意都抢了过去，我们的人也被挤了出来。 来自电影对白
- He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
- The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。
- With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定，投资冒着很大的风险。
- His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱，喜怒无常。