时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2015年4月


英语课

 Hope you had a great weekend. If not, there's always next weekend. I'm Carl Azuz for CNN Student News.


 
First up this April 13th, Kenya is building a wall. It'll stretch 435 miles, roughly the span of the country's border with Somalia. Kenya's also reportedly telling the United Nations to relocate the world’s largest refugee camp. It's in Kenya, it contains 600,000 Somalis. Kenyan officials want it moved to Somalia, though the U.N. says it hasn't gotten an official request. 
 
All this has to do with security. Kenya says it has to change the way the U.S. did after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. The al-Shabaab terrorist group is based in Somalia. Kenya believes its operatives cross the border into Kenya, possibly filtering through the refugee camp, before targeting Christians 1 and killing 2 147 people at a Kenyan university earlier this month.
 
Al-Shabaab also claimed responsibility for an attack in 2013 that killed 67 people in Kenya's Westgate shopping mall.
 
Here's a look at how porous 3 the border is between Kenya and Somalia.
 
This is the border between Kenya and Somalia. Now, we can't show you this for security reasons, but either side of this border is a pretty substantial security set up and that has only grown up in size and scrutiny 4 in the aftermath of the Westgate attack in Nairobi.
 
But this isn't the only route into Somalia. Hacked 5 out the undergrowth, this is where traffic flows. The Panya routes, so-called rat routes, used by smugglers to cross back and forth 6 undetected. Branching brazenly 7 out from the government roads, they're certainly a smoother ride. In spite of the Kenyan government's efforts to beef up border security.
 
Now up through these smugglers' routes, we've managed to enter Somalia from Kenya without any checkpoints, without being asked for ID, without seeing any sort of government presence.
 
Night falls and it's rush hour on the Panya routes. People and goods ferry back and forth. Everyone is too afraid to stop for long here, even to help the stranded 8 families we see along the way. Many are escaping the uncertainty 9 back home in Somalia, but some are seeking to enter Kenya undetected for their own ends.
 
The Panya routes end in the Dadaab refugee camp. Authorities believe that during the build-up to Westgate, al-Shabaab operatives traveled from Somalia, through the Panya routes, and hid among the refugees in the camp. And it's from there, the Kenya authorities say, that they and other undocumented people made their way through government checkpoints and deeper into Kenya.

n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )
  • Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
  • His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • 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。
adj.可渗透的,多孔的
  • He added sand to the soil to make it more porous.他往土里掺沙子以提高渗水性能。
  • The shell has to be slightly porous to enable oxygen to pass in.外壳不得不有些细小的孔以便能使氧气通过。
n.详细检查,仔细观察
  • His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好,但是经不起仔细检查。
  • Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。
生气
  • I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
  • I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。
adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
adv.厚颜无耻地;厚脸皮地肆无忌惮地
  • How dare he distort the facts so brazenly! 他怎么敢如此肆无忌惮地歪曲事实! 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • "I don't know," he answered, looking her brazenly over. “我也不知道,"他厚颜无耻地打量着她。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
学英语单词
a surfboard
abcoulomb
acid brown
acid detergent fiber
afghanistinia limei
after-glow duration
albethey
ancient regime
attitude direction indicator (adi)
axps
azimut
be disconnected
beam strength of tooth
blinker fluid
building inspection
carry up
cephalopholis aurantia
chain shot
climacteric fruit
collision avoiding system
combined radial and axial bearing
connection shaft
cumberbund
den-mother
developed outline
direct seal valve
electric anneal furnace
electric hand tapper
Ellice R.
emerald-greens
Emerazina
equatorial currents
filling volumetric method
final speed
fish gigs
flaked soap
forward acting regulator
get a quart into a pint pot
gladstone bag
glycosmicine
going and growing concern
gold tranche purchase
Gulwe
hard gummed skein
heavy as a bag of as sand
heteropsia
hippiers
hose handling gantry
hostile intent
indirect piezoelectric
initial abstraction
ionospheric radiation measurement
k-selenocarrageenan
kiton fast green
kwifs
larc
line traffic
liquid nitrogen plant
Lynnport
made out
magmatic injection-type deposit
mammoth-ivory
methocidin
myrobalans
myun
nonmate
Oenothera macrocarpa
off license
outflattered
palpitation due to fright
partly integrated concept
pattern plate molding
pentaphyllous
pesudopulpitis
phenylpropslmethylamine
Physignathus
pipelayer
plattening
Pluxyl
pond life
positive proof
project implementation scheduling
Protopteridium
protractions
Ptd.
publishing firm
quality of the fodder
quito
re-recordings
regrouted
reproduced receive image
resistor coupled transistor logic
right thinking
Road Town
service break
sintered tungsten carbide
soft hail
syringe needle
triplicate ratio circle
up ahead
visnagin
zoogeographical division