时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(七月)


英语课

By David Lewis
Kinshasa
09 July 2006


Congolese militia 1 fighters released Saturday the five remaining Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers they have been holding since late May, U.N. officials have said. In other developments, gunmen killed a journalist who was a vocal 2 critic of Congos government.


Nearly six weeks after they were seized during a gun battle in eastern Congo, five Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers were released Saturday by the militia group that had been holding them hostage.


As evening fell, U.N. officials said members of the peacekeeping mission and representatives from the local community had picked up the soldiers, and were making their way back to a base in the lawless Ituri district.


Two weeks ago, two of the group of seven initially 3 seized were released by the gunmen, who had issued a range of demands, including thousands of dollars in cash and the release of militia fighters arrested by the government.


The hostage crisis has highlighted the violence and chaos 4 in Congos east, as the vast African nation readies itself for elections later this month.


The July 30 polls should be the first free and fair election in over four decades, and are meant to draw a line under the last war, a 1998-2003 conflict that has killed some four-million people.


However, amongst other obstacles, the build-up to the poll has been marred 5 by attacks on journalists.


Early Saturday, unidentified gunmen killed a Congolese journalist, deepening concerns about freedom of the press and how free and fair the polls really will be.


The shooting comes just a day after donors 6 funding Congos peace process told the government to ensure that candidates running for posts in the post-war administration, and journalists covering the campaign, were protected.


It is hoped that this months poll will help provide the war-ravaged nation with a fresh start after decades of turmoil 7.



n.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
adj.直言不讳的;嗓音的;n.[pl.]声乐节目
  • The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
  • Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。
adv.最初,开始
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
adj. 被损毁, 污损的
  • The game was marred by the behaviour of drunken fans. 喝醉了的球迷行为不轨,把比赛给搅了。
  • Bad diction marred the effectiveness of his speech. 措词不当影响了他演说的效果。
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.骚乱,混乱,动乱
  • His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
  • The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。
学英语单词
a juggler
agricultural steel
allochthonic ground water
ampersands
angiospermous wood
antirheoscope
biogecchemistry
bone-up
boudewijn kanaal
brages
burglar alarm system
cam journal
chordal node
comparison interval
crystal ballsmanship
cut it short
Cxorvotone
daystrom power plant automation language (dapal)
De Steeg
demand report
descriptive anthropologies
DGAF
disrank
district attorneys
dot system
dry forest zone
Elaeagnus tutcheri
elisia
endo('s) agar
enlighting
flat-tax
G stone
garnet-mica schist
gifford
hand hackle
harnes(s)ing
heavy oil partial oxidation process
heemantic
herculaneums
hexamminecobalt (III)chloride
horizontal position of welding
hycanthone
hygrophorus borealiss
instrument tube routing
iridium(vi) selenide
Kifuli
knocked down condition
lancaster method of instruction
lapsus linguae
latrans
lifetaker
lip swelling
long-term credit facility
maritime buoyage
Marmagao(Mormugao)
median plates of wingbase
microthrombi
minimization of Boolean function
MittelEuropean
moulded shoes
multibit branch
neutral absorption
next generation Internet
Nicholas, Saint
OCTT
olinton
PBIB
Pentaceros
phenylalanine aminotransferase
place under restraint
polystichum falcatum
precise orientation
primary head vein
Puerto Alfonso
recovery pending
red alarm light
relief grinding
response to
resultant tool force
ringing pilot lamp
round bottomed flask
Royal Naval Reserve
runoff erosion
safety car
salmon-eye locus
Sandro
sarpo
scroll-paintings
self-presentations
septenary notation
split run
spoil the Egyptians
Spondias pinnata Kurz
straight flange design
street corners
Sumprabum
super sifter
tentative standard
underground river
victoria's secret
wear inhibitor
wh-what