时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月


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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:


Rebels in Colombia have stopped fighting a civil war. Some have not stopped the techniques they have perfected over the years for making a living. During the war, the rebel group known as the FARC earned millions of dollars by extorting 1 business owners. Now, after a peace deal, a breakaway group of guerrillas continues to attack army troops and threaten merchants. John Otis reports.


JOHN OTIS, BYLINE 2: Here in the southern jungle town of San Jose del Guaviare, construction workers repair a beer warehouse 3 that was partially 4 destroyed by a bomb.


UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Speaking Spanish).


OTIS: The attack came last month after warehouse manager Javier Montoya refused to hand over the equivalent of $175,000 to a small group of FARC rebels who have rejected the peace process.


JAVIER MONTOYA: (Speaking Spanish).


OTIS: Montoya shows me around the warehouse, pointing to shrapnel holes in the ceiling and the small crater 5 left on the sidewalk out front.


MONTOYA: (Speaking Spanish).


OTIS: "I'm confused," Montoya says. "I never thought this would happen during a peace process." Under Colombia's peace treaty, which was signed last year, nearly all of the FARC'S 7,000 fighters have gathered in special camps where they're handing over their weapons to U.N. monitors. But about 160 FARC rebels broke away from the main group last fall and now operate from jungle hideouts near San Jose del Guaviare. The FARC spent more than 50 years trying to topple the Colombian government. But analysts 6 say these breakaway guerrillas are out to enrich themselves through drug trafficking, illegal gold mining and extortion. Merchants in San Jose del Guaviare are some of the main victims, says funeral home owner Alexander Bermudez.


ALEXANDER BERMUDEZ: (Speaking Spanish).


OTIS: Bermudez says he receives up to 20 calls per day from dissident FARC members demanding payoffs. To prove his point, he holds up his iPhone and reads through its call register.


BERMUDEZ: (Speaking Spanish) FARC, FARC, FARC, FARC, FARC, FARC.


OTIS: The peace process has provoked security breakdowns 7 elsewhere in Colombia. With the FARC rebels confined to demobilization camps, some of the territory they once occupied has been taken over by different armed groups. In the northern state of Choco, recent clashes between drug-trafficking gangs and a guerrilla group called the ELN have uprooted 8 thousands of people from their homes. Meanwhile, the breakaway FARC fighters have killed several army troops. And this month, they briefly 9 kidnapped a U.N. peace monitor. All of this frustrates 10 Colonel Federico Mejia, chief of the army base in San Jose del Guaviare.


FEDERICO MEJIA: (Speaking Spanish).


OTIS: He says dissident FARC rebels are tough to target because they work in groups of three or four and dress like civilians 11. By contrast, he says the large FARC camps of the past could be bombed.


MEJIA: (Speaking Spanish).


OTIS: Still, Mejia claims the peace process has vastly improved security in the region. Local business owners disagree. They claim that extortion is an even bigger problem now than when the war was raging.


(SOUNDBITE OF PROTEST)


OTIS: Hundreds of merchants recently marched through the streets of San Jose del Guaviare to protest. Among them was Montoya, the warehouse manager. Montoya claims he will not give in to blackmail 12, but he's a nervous wreck 13. That's because he keeps getting menacing phone calls from FARC dissidents, like this one he recorded.


(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)


UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: (Speaking Spanish).


UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: (Speaking Spanish).


OTIS: In it, the caller promises that there will be no more bombings at his warehouse as long as Montoya forks over the cash. For NPR News, I'm John Otis in San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia.


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v.敲诈( extort的现在分词 );曲解
  • Corrupt government officials were extorting money from him. 腐败的政府官员向他敲诈钱财。 来自辞典例句
  • He's been charged with extorting protection money from the shopkeepers. 他被指控对店主敲诈勒索保护费。 来自互联网
n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
n.仓库;vt.存入仓库
  • We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
  • The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
adv.部分地,从某些方面讲
  • The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
  • The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静,宵禁部分解除。
n.火山口,弹坑
  • With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve-suvius.用望远镜你能看到巨大的维苏威火山口。
  • They came to the lip of a dead crater.他们来到了一个死火山口。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
n.分解( breakdown的名词复数 );衰竭;(车辆或机器的)损坏;统计分析
  • Her old car was unreliable, so the trip was plagued by breakdowns. 她的旧车老不听使唤,一路上总是出故障。 来自辞典例句
  • How do we prevent these continual breakdowns? 我们如何防止这些一再出现的故障? 来自辞典例句
v.把(某物)连根拔起( uproot的过去式和过去分词 );根除;赶走;把…赶出家园
  • Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood. 水灾令许多人背井离乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted. 飓风强烈地刮着,树都被连根拔起了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.简单地,简短地
  • I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
  • He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
v.使不成功( frustrate的第三人称单数 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧
  • What frustrates him is that there's too little money to spend on the project. 使他懊恼的是,可用于这个项目的资金太少。
  • His trouble is that he frustrates much easily. 他的毛病是很容易泄气。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • 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。
n.讹诈,敲诈,勒索,胁迫,恫吓
  • She demanded $1000 blackmail from him.她向他敲诈了1000美元。
  • The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.记者讹诈那名律师交给他文件。
n.失事,遇难;沉船;vt.(船等)失事,遇难
  • Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
  • No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
学英语单词
adjustable oscillator
al-irtibat
all wheel drive station wagon
Apacheans
appressed-fibrillose
attenuation of combination
automotive vehicles
be in a fume
be pressed with want
beater cases
beige damas
bethlehems
Bulaka
C-factor
charlesite
coke booster
colonoileoscopic
Compact Conductor
complex algorithm
Confluence Cone
Coreggio
coxon
cubical epithelia
Cudworth
cyclopecten randolphi
dalbies
decokes
didymuss
direct replacement
Disporopsis longifolia
dissental
Edibabandza
educational equality
extended aeration
fire cupping
forthleading
fuel measurement
gill arch vessels
hairgrips
high altitude equipment
hysteric stigma
injectant
innyards
interversion
It's one thing to flourish and another to fight.
late-nighter
li xue
linear sequence circuit
long-term construction
make a cat laugh
Malengue
manganic concerntrate
micrometer drum
molock
Mīsh, Kūh-e
n curve
nature stop
noncompos
oceanographic platform
omnidirection radio beacon
Onsong
opiophobe
orchidaless
ording
originarios
Orly Group
peroxid
physiological reaction
piercel
plastic strain width
point-by-point variation
proof-room
pterygopalate
RAID6
rangling
reactive golden yellow
realized capital loss
receiving rate
rotating field magnet
sal glauberi
schizoidia
Sevel
shadowgraphic
shell planting material
sinter aggregate
SM-C
sponsor
subpool
support post
taiwo
taxifoliol
teester
temporal distribution of chemical elements in ocean
the butterfly effect
thermoelectric diode
thyratron motor
total landings
unweft
utility or other enterprise funds
votum
wall-to-ceiling
yodels