2007年VOA标准英语-70 Tamil Rebels Reportedly Killed in Land, Sea
时间：2019-02-05 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（六月）
New Delhi
20 June 2007
Sri Lanka's military says land and sea clashes in the past day have left about 70 Tamil rebels dead. VOA's Steve Herman reports from New Delhi that the fighting in the east of the country comes before a widely anticipated push by government forces to try to wipe out the rebels in their northern stronghold.
Sri Lanka's military said the rebels were killed on land and at sea and that it destroyed three small camps belonging to the separatists.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels are fighting for a separate state in the island's north and east.
The director of the military's Media Center for National Security, Lakshman Hulugalle, says the latest casualties are part of a campaign to eradicate 1 the insurgents 2 in the eastern part of the country.
"Operations have been going on for the last couple of weeks. It is a thick jungle with caves. These people have been hiding under caves and inside caves, so we have been clearing this area," said Hulugalle.
Earlier, Sri Lanka's navy fought a sea battle with a cluster of rebel boats off Point Pedro, along the north-eastern coast of the country.
The military said five vessels 3 were sunk and nine others damaged when a navy patrol boat came under attack from the fleet of LTTE boats. The navy said it did not lose a boat.
Military officials say they called in air support to destroy part of the enemy flotilla while the Army fired multi-barrel rockets at the rebel vessels.
There is no independent verification of the casualty figures. Both the government and the rebels are known to routinely inflate 4 the enemy death toll 5.
Lakshman Hulugalle, at the military's media center, predicts that the rebels will be vanquished 6 in the east within days.
"After we clear and rehabilitate 7 these areas the next step is to clear the north," he said
While there has been no comment from the LTTE on the latest fighting, it said earlier it would struggle to hold on to its territory after making what it called "tactical withdrawals 8."
An estimated 70,000 people have died during the past two decades in fighting between the government and the rebels. About 5,000 people have been killed since December 2005 when violence flared 9 again, despite a three-year old ceasefire mediated 10 by Norway.
The rebels have been waging a bloody 11 campaign since 1983 to create an independent state for Sri Lanka's three million ethnic 12 Tamils, who are mostly Hindus. The government is run by the majority Sinhalese, who are primarily Buddhists 13.
- These insects are very difficult to eradicate.这些昆虫很难根除。
- They are already battling to eradicate illnesses such as malaria and tetanus.他们已经在努力消灭疟疾、破伤风等疾病。
- The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
- The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The buyers bid against each other and often inflate the prices they pay.买主们竞相投标，往往人为地提高价钱。
- Stuart jumped into the sea and inflated the liferaft.斯图尔特跳到海里给救生艇充气。
- 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。
- She had fought many battles, vanquished many foes. 她身经百战，挫败过很多对手。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I vanquished her coldness with my assiduity. 我对她关心照顾从而消除了她的冷淡。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- There was no money to rehabilitate the tower.没有资金修复那座塔。
- He used exercise programmes to rehabilitate the patients.他采用体育锻炼疗法使患者恢复健康。
- He has made several withdrawals from his bank account. 他从银行账户上提了几次款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- It is not the bank's policy to deduct interest on withdrawals. 提款需扣除利息这并非是本银行的政策。 来自辞典例句
- He mediated in the quarrel between the two boys. 他调解两个孩子之间的争吵。
- The government mediated between the workers and the employers. 政府在工人与雇主间搞调和。
- He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
- He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。
- 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。
- The Jesuits in a phase of ascendancy, persecuted and insulted the Buddhists with great acrimony. 处于地位上升阶段的耶稣会修士迫害佛教徒，用尖刻的语言辱骂他们。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史
- The return of Saivite rule to central Java had brought no antagonism between Buddhists and Hindus. 湿婆教在中爪哇恢复统治后，并没有导致佛教徒与印度教徒之间的对立。 来自辞典例句