时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(五月)


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By Robert Berger
Jerusalem
16 May 2007

Rival Palestinian factions 2 have clashed for the fourth straight day in the Gaza Strip. At least 16 Palestinians were killed, bringing the death toll 3 to at least 40 since Friday. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Palestinian militants 5 also launched a wave of rocket attacks against Israel.






A Palestinian security force officer stands in the damaged house of Fatah security chief Rashid Abu Shbak after it was attacked by Hamas militants in Gaza City, 16 May 2007


A Palestinian security force officer stands in the damaged house of Fatah security chief Rashid Abu Shbak after it was attacked by Hamas militants in Gaza City, 16 May 2007



Gunmen from the Islamic militant 4 group Hamas attacked the home of a security chief from the rival Fatah faction 1 in Gaza City. They fired mortars 6 and threw pipe bombs and then stormed the building, killing 7 six Fatah bodyguards 8.


Hours later, policemen loyal to Fatah arrested five Hamas men, but as they drove them through town the vehicle was ambushed 9 by Hamas fighters. Officials say five Hamas men in the car were killed, along with two more from Fatah.


Each side is blaming the other for the violence.


Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told Israel Radio that Fatah gunmen started the latest round of fighting when they ambushed a car carrying a senior Hamas official who had helped mediate 10 a cease-fire.


The quick collapse 11 of the third ceasefire in as many days has raised fears of civil war.


Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti also said on Israel Radio that the public has lost confidence in the cease-fires. He warned that if Gaza turns into Somalia, the Palestinian cause will suffer a setback 12 lasting 13 for decades.


Hamas militants also fired rockets across the border, terrorizing the nearby town of Sderot. Israel responded with a rare air strike. But Israeli officials have ruled out a major assault on Gaza, saying it would unify 14 the Palestinians and play into the hands of Hamas.




n.宗派,小集团;派别;派系斗争
  • Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.派系之争和自私自利看来非常普遍。
  • I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.我现在完全明白自己已陷入困境,在国王与布纳姆集团之间左右为难。
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 )
  • The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
  • rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
n.迫击炮( mortar的名词复数 );砂浆;房产;研钵
  • They could not move their heavy mortars over the swampy ground. 他们无法把重型迫击炮移过那片沼泽地。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Where the hell are his mortars? 他有迫击炮吗? 来自教父部分
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。
n.保镖,卫士,警卫员( bodyguard的名词复数 )
  • Brooks came to Jim's office accompanied—like always—by his two bodyguards. 和往常一样,在两名保镖的陪同下,布鲁克斯去吉姆的办公室。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Three of his bodyguards were injured in the attack. 在这次袭击事件中,他有3名保镖受了伤。 来自辞典例句
v.埋伏( ambush的过去式和过去分词 );埋伏着
  • The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The military vehicles were ambushed. 军车遭到伏击。 来自《简明英汉词典》
vi.调解,斡旋;vt.经调解解决;经斡旋促成
  • The state must mediate the struggle for water resources.政府必须通过调解来解决对水资源的争夺。
  • They may be able to mediate between parties with different interests.他们也许能在不同利益政党之间进行斡旋。
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
n.退步,挫折,挫败
  • Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
  • She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。
adj.永久的,永恒的;vbl.持续,维持
  • The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
  • We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。
vt.使联合,统一;使相同,使一致
  • How can we unify such scattered islands into a nation?我们怎么才能把如此分散的岛屿统一成一个国家呢?
  • It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula.很难想象南北双方在统一半岛的方案上究竟怎样才能达成一致。
学英语单词
a judge
adrenocorticotrop(h)in
affeebled
Al Quran
alarm cut out
archaos
auto termination unit
backup strategy
balmless
basofor
bedbuggy
caproic aicd
chamula
chould
co-rulers
cyclopropenium
decelerating phase
declaws
depression effect
disruptive selection
distance between wells
Div'ya
dwindle down
Edwards Park
epilachna varivestiss
evening wrap
expansion rail joint
field run plant
fish oil tank
floor general
for a variety of reasons
foveally
fringed micelle model
furnace equipment
great bustards
gun teckle
half nephews
hardenabilities
hermesite
heroicize
hexhead screwdriver
holographic technology
holothuria pardalis
hosohamudama miyakei
hotbrain
Huchang
hurricane deck
impishnesses
intelligence agent
internal force feed
interserting
ionospher
Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm
judoes
jumoes
LASR
lateral slide mo(u)ld
leave visiting cards
leucophanes albescens
leukaemomycin
macromelanosome
make ill blood between persons
masculince
membranous pharyngitis
menuettos
Midulu
monkeypot
natural-convection air cooler
offset to the loss
open excavation
panghulu
patternmakers
phethenylate sodium
Picea breweriana
pictorial infrared photography
pipe sling
podilfen
precancerous dermatosis
prostatic carcinoma
queerious
rancagua
reaction zone
reflection mirror
reinforcement planting
Salpingo-Oophoroplasty
skirt underflow
sleepswalk
static and dynamic wavelength allocation
stimulus input
stream on
street side
strong mayor
sulfatization
three-state check box
track standard
transmission filter
turnkey system
vapo(u)r deposition
water quality standards
waveguide fixed attenuator
you don't say!
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