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 hand-me-down
a little eternity
abort the pass
actual dishonour
aerochemistry
aloeaceaes
analytic invariant
ancestral shrines
area-depth curve
auditioned
be raised to the skies
biocybernetician
bishopric
bog rein orchids
braggot
Bravicea
carrier pilot relay system
cattle loan companies
Chengjiang (CV24)
chyba
Color-weakness
coraft
D train
demutation
deserted wife
Dobro
downstep
e. o. wilsons
end on
estate of inheritance
evidence upon oath
fabric analysis
feined
flared mold
Fluro-Ethyl
footdraggings
for weal or woe
gay lussac's law
go-in
Grandas
grinned
haarscheiben
hospedaje
if anybody
image shift
inching button inch button
inclined-shaft tubular turbine
indiguria
inwards freight and cartage
is at home in
latch-nut
less favourable currency
line idle
Lonicera elisae
marketing efficiency
metameric state
meteoric seism
Mexican-American War
Mitchell County
mosecular
mushroom poisoning
nervous wrecks
NET Framework
nodular hydrates
nuking
orthognathic
overabsorbed overhead
overseas communication
oxo-synthesis
pantoscop
pay roll department
permanent exhibition
pseudoangiohemophilia
quasi-spiritual
radio common channel(s)
rail flaw detecting car
reactor coolant system cold leg isolation valve
refreshable program
region growing
resource-room
rockier
Schollar lignin
schrum
scitovsky
single rod agitator
stochastic coalescence equation
stump puller
Tecomatla
tellio
testudo graecas
the great enemy
thermionic cell
thermotelephone
tosses around
tuberin
unincorporated association
vibrating plate furnace
voucher payable account
walk-about disease
Wallersberg
wiregrasses