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VOA标准英语2009年-Ethnic Fighting Rocks Kosovo Town - 英语课
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  1. 1 VOA标准英语2009年-Ethnic Fighting Rocks Kosovo Town 英语课
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Troops of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and European police have increased patrols in and around Kosovo's volatile 1 northern town of Mitrovica, after at least six people were injured in clashes between Serbs and ethnic 2 Albanians late Friday. Police officials say explosions also destroyed cars and properties.
 






An Albanian shop burned the previous night by the Serbs in the Bosnjacka Mahala district of the ethnically 3 divided city of Mitrovica, 03 Jan 2009



A tense calm returned to Kosovo's second largest and most ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, where since late Friday about half a dozen people, including fire fighters, were wounded in clashes between Serbs and ethnic Albanians.

There were violent protests followed by two huge explosions that rocked Mitrovica, destroying cars and damaging properties. Police and fire fighters rushed to the scene as the first blast destroyed at least seven cars near a bar in the town's Serb district. Security officials said Serbs then set two Albanian shops alight.

But as a fire brigade arrived to put out these blazes, a second explosive device apparently 4 detonated, hampering 5 efforts to secure the area.

Troops of the Western military alliance NATO and European Union police stepped up their presence around Mitrovica, and armoured vehicles were seen patrolling the streets.

The latest clashes came after a Serb teenager was reportedly hurt by two knife-wielding Albanians on Tuesday, who were later detained. That incident prompted hundreds of Serbs to burn down several Albanian shops and to damage cars with Kosovo license 6 plates.

Observers say the latest violence also reflects deep rooted divisions between the Serb minority of 120,000 people, and the two-million strong ethnic Albanian community of Kosovo.

Serbs are angry that Kosovo's government declared the territory independent from neighboring Serbia, last year. Kosovo's secession in February occurred nearly a decade after NATO bombings ended a Serbian military crackdown on independence seeking ethnic Albanians.

Friday's fighting underscored Western concern that Mitrovica will become once again a major flashpoint of ethnic fighting, and attacks against Western peacekeepers. The town was already the scene of deadly clashes in March between Serbs and international forces.



adj.反复无常的,挥发性的,稍纵即逝的,脾气火爆的;n.挥发性物质
  • With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定,投资冒着很大的风险。
  • His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱,喜怒无常。
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。
adv.人种上,民族上
  • Ethnically, the Yuan Empire comprised most of modern China's ethnic groups. 元朝的民族成分包括现今中国绝大多数民族。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
  • Russia is ethnically relatively homogeneous. 俄罗斯是个民族成分相对单一的国家。 来自辞典例句
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的现在分词 )
  • So fraud on cows and development aid is seriously hampering growth. 因此在牛问题上和发展补助上的诈骗严重阻碍了发展。
  • Short-termism, carbon-trading, disputing the science-are hampering the implementation of direct economically-led objectives. 短效主义,出售二氧化碳,进行科学辩论,这些都不利于实现以经济为主导的直接目标。
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
学英语单词
a person of color
abdicators
abreed
aireyholme
altimeter-setting indicator
antipapist
arithmetic speed evaluation
belt tunnel dehydrator
brassick
C1-continuous problem
carbimides
ceratonereis erythraeensis
cherryry
circuit tank
cobaltic nitropentammine salt
colourity
cross ruling screen
Dedekind lattice
delet (teili)
devergences
digiscoped
dinner wine
dople
double barreled bond
electrometer gauge
elegancy
enrile
enveloper
Erlistoun
Ethomid
extra-nutrition
farmer's cheese
fishing deck
Flores I.
foresing
forward exchange bought
Fraxinus szaboana
gastrocnemial
genus Aphrophora
get a rise out of sb
Gurjão
hard-to-open
HMG-CoA reductase
hydrops fetal
hypogonadism(hypogonadia)
IN-TF
indicator pencil
irrepugnable
isentropic hadley circulation
king size bed
KLM
laevogyric
laid dry
Leiodidae
liaison committee
ligusticum reptens (diels) wolff
macroexamination
microribbons
needil
Nejdek
nephrism
ngatik i.
noncomplainers
nonrandomized estimator
open-and-shut control
operating results
orthorhombic (rhombic)
overhead air cooler
paranormal activity
partial preordering
Petrocosmea kerrii
pointed solder copper
puckishly
purge one's contempt
quandong nuts
reclusion
regrind circuit
run-time variable
Sell price
semi-adherent
semicircular
sick up
size characteristics
solaziquone
spearnose bats
specific volume
spring sag
square divisions
stop-and-wait
sulphinides
synchronism test
tormenting
transfer of prestresses
transoceanic submarine cable
true airspeed computer
tuza
us on
user network control machine
variable-speed scanning
vroon
Yunnanocephalus