时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2008年


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 For more than one thousand years, Babylon was one of the world’s most celebrated 1 cities, where King Nebuchadnezzar II is believed to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.


 
The ruins of the ancient Mesopotamian city are roughly 60 miles south of modern-day Baghdad. The site declined and fell into ruin after it was conquered by the Persians under Cyrus the Great.
 
After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the site was occupied by multinational 2 troops, using it as a base.
 
After April 9th, 2003, U.S. and Polish forces entered the city, these forces made sentry 3 towers around the city. In fact, the existence of the military vehicles and helicopters caused damage to this archeological site.
 
Unfortunately, a lot has been destroyed, because a military base was positioned right within the ruins of Babylon. We deeply regret that and the Iraqi colleagues will now have to clear the damage preferably with international help.
 
A major museum exhibit focusing on ancient Babylon organized by the Louvre in Paris is currently on show in Berlin. The Louvre says it had hoped the national museum in Baghdad would contribute to the exhibit.
 
But Baghdad's security status was deemed too perilous 4 to transport priceless treasures to the airport and put them safely on a plane.
 
We had hoped for quite a number of clay tablets, but also bigger objects, such as sculptures and relief. This would have been great. Unfortunately it is not available now.
 
The Polish-led force moved out of Babylon at the beginning of 2005 when the Iraqi Culture Ministry 5 assumed control in the site.
 
A report in 2004 by the British Museum said forces from the US-led coalition 6 crashed part of the ancient Iraqi city’s 2600-year-old brick-paved streets with their tanks, and used soil-containing archeological fragments to fill sandbags.
 
Iraq has requested the Babylon be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site and that it is hoped the ancient city will once again become a major tourist attraction.

adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
adj.多国的,多种国籍的;n.多国籍公司,跨国公司
  • The firm was taken over by a multinational consulting firm.这家公司被一个跨国咨询公司收购。
  • He analyzed the relationship between multinational corporations and under-developed countries.他分析了跨国公司和不发达国家之间的关系。
n.哨兵,警卫
  • They often stood sentry on snowy nights.他们常常在雪夜放哨。
  • The sentry challenged anyone approaching the tent.哨兵查问任一接近帐篷的人。
adj.危险的,冒险的
  • The journey through the jungle was perilous.穿过丛林的旅行充满了危险。
  • We have been carried in safety through a perilous crisis.历经一连串危机,我们如今已安然无恙。
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
学英语单词
absorben
almond crescent
along in years
arc-stream voltage
assembly level
automatic steering device
black butter
bowl pack
braeriaches
broad-band antenna
carrier frequency amplifier
catastro-fuck
chilean natural potassium nitrate
cipher
clenoliximab
concentrating zone thin layer plate
contorsion
cypripedium calceoluss
dementia polysclerotica
Diploclisia
dot matrix size
dough plasticity
excess product
execution pripeline
extractum polygoni hydropiperis fluidum
extraperiosteally
extuberance
fayalite peridotite
fixed-arch bridge
fuckless
full-rich position
gap filling strategy
gear shaping machine
genemotor
give thanks
given the shaft
go hit the spot
gothicized
graving
handelsgesellschafts
homogeneous bounded domain
Japan Air Society
Krestsy
kryptol furnace
leaved
lens equation
long diagonal of indentation
longwall undercutter
machine wrench
maidservants
marry into money
mixture colours
molecular amplitude
money-man
monitoring device
montigny
mopstick handrail
moral wear
name-days
Navahoes
newkirlite
notice of suspend payment
OSAT
paedologist
paracholesterin
pcr products
platinum (pt)
plot elements
prangers
pulse regenerator
punchers
r-plasmid
ray cell
reactive potency
retch
Rhinophis
ribbon structure
river branching
rocker side dump car
shriveling up
sleeps out
smoke vapour meter
social exclusion
solar equation
soughingly
stone-carvers
stoop vault
sulcus for radial nerve
svat
taken out a patent for
temporized
to blast something
topic for discussion
torpe
trailing characteristics
trupentine camphor
Vasoconstrictine
vodeness
weak light source
weather controlled message
Wendlandia luzoniensis
X-ray tube voltage