时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(五月)


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Italy is cracking down on illegal immigration and under an agreement with Libya has begun sending boatloads of migrants back to Africa. Italy's lower house of parliament has approved a new security bill by that redefines illegal immigration as a criminal offense 1.


During a ceremony in the Italian port town of Gaeta, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni gave Libya the first three of six patrol boats as part of an agreement to stem the flow of illegal immigrants.


Italy has long pressed Libya to better patrol its coasts to prevent boats carrying African immigrants from leaving its shores in search of a better life in Europe.
 
Rescued migrants react on board an Italian coast guard boat while arriving at the port of Tripoli, Libya, 07 May 2009


Last week, Italy started sending boatloads of migrants it intercepted 2 in international waters back to Libya without first screening them for asylum 3 claims. Libyan Ambassador to Italy Hafid Gaddur said his country could process the requests from asylum seekers who might otherwise have presented the requests in Italy.


The U.N. refugee agency has criticized the new policy, saying it is against international law and criticizing Libya's alleged 4 lack of facilities.


But Interior Minister Maroni said Italy needs international backing.


He said in the fight against illegal immigration, there are a lot of instruments at our disposal, but they are not sufficient if there is a lack of international collaboration 5 to combat the trafficking of human beings.


Maroni said said the European Union must step in and help member states that bear the brunt of illegal immigration in the Mediterranean 6. He said Italy is a front-line state against illegal immigration and invests its own funds to protect other European countries.


Wednesday, Italy's lower house of parliament approved a security bill that redefines illegal immigration as a criminal offense. The lawmakers voted to fine illegal immigrants up to $15,000 and jail people who house them in Italy.


The new measures would lengthen 7 the amount of time illegal migrants can spend in detention 8 and allows local officials to set up citizen patrols.


The new security bill must be approved by the Italian Senate, parliament's upper house, before it becomes law.


Italy receives the world's fourth-highest number of asylum claims each year after the United States, Canada and France.



n.犯规,违法行为;冒犯,得罪
  • I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
  • His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。
拦截( intercept的过去式和过去分词 ); 截住; 截击; 拦阻
  • Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave the hotel. 他正要离开旅馆,记者们把他拦截住了。
  • Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave by the rear entrance. 他想从后门溜走,记者把他截住了。
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • 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
n.合作,协作;勾结
  • The two companies are working in close collaboration each other.这两家公司密切合作。
  • He was shot for collaboration with the enemy.他因通敌而被枪毙了。
adj.地中海的;地中海沿岸的
  • The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
  • Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。
vt.使伸长,延长
  • He asked the tailor to lengthen his coat.他请裁缝把他的外衣放长些。
  • The teacher told her to lengthen her paper out.老师让她把论文加长。
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
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advice of circumstance preventing carriage
aggresomes
allowed frequency
ambassador plenipotentiary
amphoric breathing
archelogical
Asphodelaceae
bandying about
bear clique
bellerophons
binomious
biometals
bord face
cavity configuration
central closing
colour negative film
conductive coupling
convolloside
corpuscularians
cryptostegia grandiglora
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diggin
dimethylimidazol-
E-DIOL
elliptical polarized light
erectionand construction plot
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experimental physical chemistry
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fake off
feminized
four eyes
front slip angle
goolsby
graphic cursor control
Grimaldi Family
groundnut cake
helper T lymphocyte
high speed belt conveyer
human language technologies
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humming bird's trumpet
job lot control
juxtaposition eye
kelfiprim
lifting and mounting complete superstructure
lig. calcaneonaviculare dorsale
localnesses
locomotory
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matched games
mixed ether
mortgage-protection policy
naphthalizes
nck
nesteia
obstructive emphysema
officers and soldiers
oral siphon
osagian series
outleaping
over/under loaded variance percent
pachycheles pisoides
palindromist
polish ... up
potassium hydrogen metaarsenite
predicatival
Primary debt
principal coordinates
rancidity chemical
rauwolscane
Rehra
remained germ
resinise
river dance (sikkim)
roller vibrator
Sangkulirang, Tk.
secret shopper
Seedling-forest
self tapping screw
semichildren
Seriphus
shift gate
shrivellings
sill joint
source flux
statistic simulation
system of guards
telemetering pick-up
TNCC
Toriyamaia
traffic intersection
truels
unsell
wake effect loss
wave impedance of rock
well-developed theory
Zigadenus venenosus