时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(七月)


英语课

By Margaret Besheer
Irbil
13 July 2006



Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki addresses an audience during a handover ceremony, Thursday, July 13, 2006, in Samawah   
  
For the first time, coalition 1 troops have handed over security of one of Iraq's 18 provinces to Iraqi forces.


British and Australian troops Thursday transferred security for the southern province of Muthanna to Iraqi security forces. The mostly Shi'ite province is about 370 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, and is home to more than half a million people.


Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was present for the hand-over ceremony, and reassured 2 the regional governor that, although terrorists might try to make this experiment fail, the government would do everything it could to make it a success.


But despite the calm in Muthanna, violence persisted in other parts of the country, with at least 16 people reported killed Thursday. The sectarian killings 4, particularly in and around Baghdad, have forced many families to flee the area. Hundreds of families have gone to safer areas in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region.


At a news conference Thursday in the northern city of Irbil, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said he hopes those families will be able to return home, as soon as the situation improves.


He blamed terrorists for the situation, saying they have lost all hope of succeeding in destroying democracy in Iraq, and so they are killing 3 and kidnapping anyone.


In the last week, sectarian attacks have killed more than 100 Iraqis.


But the Iraqi president said the country has not descended 5 into civil war. He says there are problems between some groups, but it is not a war.


In other developments, the U.S. military said one of its helicopters crashed southwest of Baghdad during a combat patrol, but the two pilots survived. The U.S. military also reported the death of an American sailor that occurred Wednesday in hostile action.


And in Washington, the White House announced that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will meet with President Bush in Washington on July 25. President Bush paid the Iraqi Prime Minister a surprise visit last month in Baghdad.



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。
adj.使消除疑虑的;使放心的v.再保证,恢复信心( reassure的过去式和过去分词)
  • The captain's confidence during the storm reassured the passengers. 在风暴中船长的信念使旅客们恢复了信心。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • The doctor reassured the old lady. 医生叫那位老妇人放心。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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。
谋杀( killing的名词复数 ); 突然发大财,暴发
  • His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
  • The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
a.为...后裔的,出身于...的
  • A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
  • The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
学英语单词
al-amarah
antilabour
Araka
asamblea
autosuggestive
bang head against
Belg
blade with stepped root
bottom inner casing
bronnert process
buttillaries
calsey
Christia obcordata
coincidence factor
cone-apex angle
control of nematode
crude-copper
crustal disturbance
cultivated grassland
curry muncher
cyberbanks
digitalia
discharage
dredging equipment
drying hopper
dzhou
earthing installation
eclipse end
ecocritical
electronic punch
Eugaimardia
film scribing
fornicate
frances elizabeth caroline willards
Fugo
Garnet-jade
gear-stocking cutter
grade compensation
guttae argenti nitratis
Honeywell file access system
Hubble Atlas
hyalitis punctata
improper installation
infrared-guided missile
inter specified index
islet cell transplantation
Jackson's candle turbidimeter
Jerichoite
kidney tubules
Kwania, L.
leached
low-ceilinged
machinery classification certificate
make perfect
mononuclear leukocyte
moving coordinate
mucoraceaes
oil-gas anticlinal deposit
oner
oriente
output register empty
parlier
parroket, parroquet
periodograms
perturbant
pig-run
plasma lemma(seifriz 1928)'plasma membrane
polar code
polyvinyl acetate resin adhesive
Primula epilithica
pseudoglaucoma
psoralea esculentas
pyrolytic gas chromatography
relman
Rhododendron pemakoense
rough-terrain truck
SAP97
Scaliger, Joseph Justus
schwedler
seeming
show ankle
sialis lutarias
Staroye Maksimkino
str/n mouse
submitting entity
subroutine analyzer
supporting block for location
swing link guide
thermal chemical vapor deposition
thermocople junction
three-point attitude
threw her weight around
transposition type
triophosphoramide
turbocompressors
utility tape processor
vestigital sideband
water proofing of basement
wavelength resolution
way-going crop
wheat consumption
yellow tail