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英语课
By Chad Bouchard
Mae Sot, Thailand
03 October 2007

Communities along Thailand's border with Burma are closely watching for signs of a new wave of refugees following violence in Rangoon over the past week. As Chad Bouchard reports from the Thai border town of Mae Sot, fears are rising among refugees and human rights workers.


At the tightly controlled Mae Sot Boundary Post, pedestrians 1 and trucks cross the long bridge connecting Thailand and Burma.


A constant trickle 2 of pedestrians crosses in both directions. People laden 3 with sacks of rice and canvas stretchers full of watermelons and beans march to Burma, while empty bags return.


Inside Burma, this border area is home to the Karen ethnic 4 group, which has been fighting the country's military dictatorship for decades.


A Karen human rights worker in Thailand who asked that her name not be used says refugees are hopeful for change but worried about their relatives in Burma. She says even young people who were born abroad and have never set foot in their homeland feel a new passion about returning there after seeing the news about protests in Rangoon and other cities.


"They never be in Burma but even they never be, right now they heard about the people in Burma; they are trying to be freedom and then to have democracy so they hope this time maybe we can go back to Burma," said the woman. "Even they are not sure, they are excited to be back to Burma."


While the refugees may be eager to support countrymen across the border, she says Thai police have kept a lid on the local political scene. She says the police have tightened 5 security, arresting dozens of illegal Karen immigrants over the past week and sending them back to Burma.


Karen Human Rights Group researcher Stephen Hull 6 says the Karen refugees are unlikely to be discouraged no matter what the outcome.


Hull says Karens have been playing a cat-and-mouse game with Burma's government for decades, defying the military's orders and sometimes sabotaging 7 its operations.


"Although the scale of open revolt is definitely unique in the past 19 years, the fact that people are resisting is not unique," he said. "People do continue to resist and they will continue to resist. The recent repression 8 that we've seen won't change people's will to resist."


Hundreds of thousands of Burmese people are refugees in border countries, some exiled for more than 20 years.


The protests in Burma started more than a month ago after the regime raised fuel prices, and intensified 9 after Buddhist 10 monks 11 marched in the streets.


At least 10 people have been killed since a military crackdown began September 26, but human rights groups and diplomats 12 say the toll 13 is much higher.




n.步行者( pedestrian的名词复数 )
  • Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement. 几个行人在结冰的人行道上滑倒了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Pedestrians keep to the sidewalk [footpath]! 行人走便道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
vi.淌,滴,流出,慢慢移动,逐渐消散
  • The stream has thinned down to a mere trickle.这条小河变成细流了。
  • The flood of cars has now slowed to a trickle.汹涌的车流现在已经变得稀稀拉拉。
adj.装满了的;充满了的;负了重担的;苦恼的
  • He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
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。
收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)变紧; (使)绷紧; 加紧
  • The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
  • His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机,然后又松开了。
n.船身;(果、实等的)外壳;vt.去(谷物等)壳
  • The outer surface of ship's hull is very hard.船体的外表面非常坚硬。
  • The boat's hull has been staved in by the tremendous seas.小船壳让巨浪打穿了。
阴谋破坏(某事物)( sabotage的现在分词 )
  • Mr Smith fiercely denied any question of sabotaging the talks. 史密斯先生坚决拒绝任何企图阻挠谈话的提问。
  • Failed in sabotaging APEC summit in Sydney of Australia. 澳大利亚悉尼APEC会议遭遇惨败。
n.镇压,抑制,抑压
  • The repression of your true feelings is harmful to your health.压抑你的真实感情有害健康。
  • This touched off a new storm against violent repression.这引起了反对暴力镇压的新风暴。
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》
adj./n.佛教的,佛教徒
  • The old lady fell down in adoration before Buddhist images.那老太太在佛像面前顶礼膜拜。
  • In the eye of the Buddhist,every worldly affair is vain.在佛教徒的眼里,人世上一切事情都是空的。
n.修道士,僧侣( monk的名词复数 )
  • The monks lived a very ascetic life. 僧侣过着很清苦的生活。
  • He had been trained rigorously by the monks. 他接受过修道士的严格训练。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 );有手腕的人,善于交际的人
  • These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
  • The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
学英语单词
about half the length of the ovary
absolute sovereignty
accommodate oneself to
accusive
Adenostemma
alberigoes
Amnuralithus
antagonism game
antiquus
antitropy
aotemia
appropriates
arrocha
birdlessness
Bisenda
bitt bollard
bomb tube
Bursa musculi piriformis
Catshill
chiffonized
chinese arborvita
Clientel
Clostridium botulinum food poisoning
coal grading
cocto
computatron
condensation rate
de-Palestinianises
decicoulomb
denges passage
desalin(iz)ation
diesel pile driver
dois corregos
double number
double-geared drive
entmacher
epineuria
Fedorox stage
Fidalgo Port
file load factor
formation multitester
forward steps
glossosteresis
have the advantage of
Hexalectris spicata
high energy beam machining
high-frequency protective device
Homemade Leverage
hydrail
hydraulic test stand
inferior haemorrhoidal artery
Kentucky coffeetrees
La Coyotera
laser satellite tracking installation
long corner
lunar trajectories
Ma Xing Yi Gan Tang
marhabas
moor bath
motild
multi-impulse orbital transfer
neurotologists
neutral-zone
open fired furnace
order of a determinant
osteofibrochondrosarcoma
ovotran
perambulating
perfectly mobil component
plug-in sheet
polynya
ponsa
pooty tang
process defining control statement
real-time interrupt
respectify
reversed loop winding
Rhodotorula pallida
ribes sativums
s process
seatworks
seleno
sheer plate
slutsker
sockin'
sodium hexametahposphate
spending money
staging area
stamped steel
Stateless protocol
suspensory muscle of duodenum
swept area
test tree
therapeuticizes
track crossover
treechanges
vacuum-tube converter
variable-capacitance diode
vertical passageway
wipperman
with one's head in the air
wrinkled pig leather