时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(九月)


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Unidentified gunmen have fired on the motorcade of Pakistan's prime minister, but officials said he was not in his vehicle at the time of the attack. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from the Pakistani capital the shooting took place on the busy highway between Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
 
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (File)


The spokesman for Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called the shooting an assassination 1 attempt. Zahid Bashir told reporters that multiple sniper shots had been fired at the vehicle. He said by the grace of God the prime minister is safe after the assassination attempt. He said two bullets had struck the vehicle.


Television footage of the prime minister's black Mercedes showed two deep chips in the bulletproof glass of the driver's side window.


But soon after the spokesman's statement, police officials and Pakistan's Interior Secretary Kamal Shah said the prime minister was not even in the vehicle at the time of the shooting.


He said police told him that the cars were heading to the airport to pick up the prime minister when the attack occurred.


The prime minister was flying back to Islamabad from Lahore. Officials say he is now safely back in the capital.


Pakistan has a long history of political assassinations 2. The government has blamed Taliban and al-Qaida militants 3 for killing 4 former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in December and for plotting several assassination attempts against former President Pervez Musharraf in recent years.


On Saturday, the country's parliament and four provincial 5 assemblies are scheduled to elect Mr. Musharraf's successor.


Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, a close ally of Prime Minister Gilani, is widely expected to win the vote and become Pakistan's next president.



n.暗杀;暗杀事件
  • The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
  • Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年,林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
n.暗杀( assassination的名词复数 )
  • Most anarchist assassinations were bungled because of haste or spontaneity, in his view. 在他看来,无政府主义者搞的许多刺杀都没成功就是因为匆忙和自发行动。 来自辞典例句
  • Assassinations by Israelis of alleged terrorists habitually kill nearby women and children. 在以色列,自称恐怖分子的炸弹自杀者杀害靠近自己的以色列妇女和儿童。 来自互联网
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.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。
adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
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Aluminostomy
annonaceous
anomalous Green function
ataxia telangiec tasia syndrome
axinost (or axonost)
beach slope
biker
body block
caretaker speech
CAT (control and test)
Cervulus
characteristic impedance of lossless line
coal hulk
coarse thread tap
cockled
colpohyperplasia emphysematosa
computer operating system
continuous-way control
Coral Gables
cork tree
cost-volume-profit graph
cowessess
dari
day corrector knob
disarticulating
dress-conscious
dyaus-pitars
epidemic urticaria
exhaust-valve cam
fast combat support ship
fetid horehounds
flat sector magnet
foam rubber products
fog effect
Ghaddaffi
gram centimeter
great crested newt
heartstrings
htel
hydroperoxidation
image composition
intracellulare
johany
knowlege
law of diminishing marginal rate of technical substitution
letterhack
line light source
long - playing record
lop sth off
low rental
mail stops
Medifome
michiel
moisture suction
multiprogrammed computation
musculi adductor hallucis
nitida
no laughing matter
outframing
P-Celtic
particular Churches
plesiomorphically
plumbous metaplumbate
polyphase heating r
povlsen
pre-pilot
Priargunsk
primal cluster
Primula orbicularis
projection Ektar lens
public administration review (par)
quick service
rainmeter
raveling
red whortleberry
reducing roasting
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Ricardo, David
river valley
sapere aude
scalar flux
sclerenchymous fibre
sclerification
segment mode
setback capacity
silk throwing
spiculating
Student's t test
subdeaconry
The biter is sometimes bit.
the way of the worlds
Thrixspermum pensile
Tom Sawyering
transmigrable
triode field effect transistor
urgent-care
vulgariser
wb (wide band)
wles
zucco