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英语课
By Peter Fedynsky
Moscow
31 October 2007


At least eight people are dead and 56 have been injured following a bomb blast on a bus in the Russian city of Togliatti. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports that local authorities are treating the explosion as a possible act of terrorism.


The bomb exploded at a busy intersection 1 in downtown Togliatti, a city of about 700,000 people and home to AvtoVaz, Russia's largest car maker 2. Most of the injured were college students, and a small child is reported among those killed.


A spokesman for the local rescue service, Andrei Derbenev, says the explosion shattered windows on nearby residential 3 buildings. Law enforcement officials say the blast had the equivalent of up to two kilograms of TNT.


Officials are ruling out a gas tank explosion, because the bus is reported to have run on diesel 4, a less volatile 5 fuel. They are also trying to learn if the bomb was carried on board by a passenger, whether it was attached on the floor or underside the bus, or whether it was laid in its path.


Vladimir Artyakov, the governor of Samara Province, the region of southern Russia that includes Togliatti, says the basic premise 6 of an investigation 7 into the blast is terrorism.


The governor's spokesman, Ivan Skrylnik, told VOA the explosion involves three legal charges.


Skrylnik says a criminal case has been launched involving terrorism, premeditated murder, and illegal production of an explosive device.


Togliatti has a reputation for violence involving organized crime groups that compete for influence in the city. The governor's spokesman declined to comment on whether any such group may have been involved in the blast.


Samara province has not been known for terrorist attacks of the kind that occur in the Caucasus region more than 1,000 kilometers southwest of Togliatti.


But the Interfax News Agency quotes a source close to the investigation as saying authorities do not exclude the possibility that Wahabbi or other Islamic extremists may be involved in the blast. Samara province has a substantial Muslim population.


President Putin has sent a top federal investigator 8 from Moscow to help conduct the inquiry 9.




n.交集,十字路口,交叉点;[计算机] 交集
  • There is a stop sign at an intersection.在交叉路口处有停车标志。
  • Bridges are used to avoid the intersection of a railway and a highway.桥用来避免铁路和公路直接交叉。
n.制造者,制造商
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
adj.提供住宿的;居住的;住宅的
  • The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
  • The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
n.柴油发动机,内燃机
  • We experimented with diesel engines to drive the pumps.我们试着用柴油机来带动水泵。
  • My tractor operates on diesel oil.我的那台拖拉机用柴油开动。
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。
n.前提;v.提论,预述
  • Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.让我引述一些史实作为我立论的前提。
  • We can deduce a conclusion from the premise.我们可以从这个前提推出结论。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
n.研究者,调查者,审查者
  • He was a special investigator for the FBI.他是联邦调查局的特别调查员。
  • The investigator was able to deduce the crime and find the criminal.调查者能够推出犯罪过程并锁定罪犯。
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
学英语单词
all-in-service station
anemoside
anti-aeration plate
arrive at a discount
bartonias
be in convulsions
Belt Channel
bene esse
bold as a lion
bopster
carry coals
coding television picture
commensurate with international standards
convergent filtration
Cupidlike
cussler
daggar
demands
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
dipole reflector
disconnect rod
dissipation interaction
dry painting
effective signal
environment ecology
explosive gas indicator
gangen
genus helianthuss
Getxo
give sb. one's good honour
globular cementite
gripple
Hazen and Williams' formula
heat movement
hemp gasket
IACAC
idol worshiper
Ikeda,Hayato
immigrant vein
inconfinable
indoor bushing
isotropic indicatrix
Jennifer Lopez
JNACC
jump r.
Kempt, L.
long axis of mesentery
loose condition
lymphocryptoviral
magnetic heads
Moorish capital
n-nitrosomethylurea
no-oil-supply
nsss
one-commodity model
orange salad
Orco, Fiume
outdoor power house
Philasterina
pleiochasial
pollution of herbicide
potty-chair
pressostat
Prinivil
pulsating bending fatigue strength
quasi-hydrodynamic lubrication
quillwort
racing-car
rare earth deposits
red-wine
reservoir flood routing
rotaviral
sadiron
Schizozygine
scream blue murder
sewage disposal pump
soren aabye kierkegaards
source of local materials
space charge zone
spatial variable
spine chiller
sprote
stressed collar
sulfonylation
Sēdik'a
T-bank position control loop
televillages
temporary hearing defect
tetrazyl hydrazine
tgd
think out aloud
This is January
turn of expressions
United Nations High Commission for Refugees
upper end of evaporator
usnea florida
very long range (vlr)
wartworm
water-laden
weighing system
whin
wipes up