2007年VOA标准英语-US Oil Workers Abducted in Southern Nigeria
时间：2019-02-06 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（五月）
Abuja
09 May 2007
Attackers carrying assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a transport vessel 1 carrying oil workers off the southern coast of Nigeria, kidnapping four Americans late Tuesday. Gilbert da Costa reports for VOA from Abuja on the escalating 2 violence in the oil-rich territory.
More than 30 foreigners have been kidnapped in the Niger Delta 3 since the start of the month, a dramatic upsurge in attacks on oil facilities and workers so far this year.
Most of those seized have been released.
The wetland region's high-profile armed group, the Movement for the Emancipation 4 of the Niger Delta, attacked three oil pipelines 5 Tuesday in a renewed campaign to cripple the Nigerian oil industry.
Ibiba Don Pedro, a newspaper editor in the main oil city of Port Harcourt where most of the current violence had been centered, says the petroleum-producing territory is fast slipping into anarchy 6.
"We are moving, firmly, firmly, beginning from Rivers state, in the direction of Somalia, where you have warlords controlling sections of Rivers state," said Pedro. "That is where we are going, I can tell you that with everything I have observed. Perhaps in the next two, three years it is going to blow out and we are going to have a totally lawless. Rivers state - the capital of the oil industry in the country."
Rich in oil reserves, the Niger Delta has long become a battleground for militants 8 who claim to be fighting for a larger share of the country's oil wealth for local people and armed gangs out to make ransom 9 money.
Pedro draws a correlation 10 between recent elections and the spiraling violence, noting that politicians have long armed groups in the region.
"It is just a confused mess really, much of what is happening. You have militants who were helping 11 the PDP [ruling Peoples' Democratic Party] carry ballot 12 boxes, intimidate 13 people in Okrika, in Port Harcourt," added Pedro. "They were at the center of the bombing of police stations and all of that. I learned that authoritatively 14 only few days ago."
The kidnapped Americans were part of a group of workers laying pipelines for U.S. contractor 15 Global Industries, working for oil giant Chevron 16 at its Okan oilfield in Southern Nigeria.
Thousands of foreign oil workers have been evacuated 17 from Nigeria because of militant 7 attacks since February 2006.
- The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
- You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。
- The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句
- He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
- The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔，形成了一个三角洲。
- We must arouse them to fight for their own emancipation. 我们必须唤起他们为其自身的解放而斗争。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They rejoiced over their own emancipation. 他们为自己的解放感到欢欣鼓舞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The oil is carried to the oil refinery by pipelines. 石油通过输油管输送到炼油厂。
- The oil carried in pipelines. 石油用管道输送。
- There would be anarchy if we had no police.要是没有警察，社会就会无法无天。
- The country was thrown into a state of anarchy.这国家那时一下子陷入无政府状态。
- 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。
- 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。
- We'd better arrange the ransom right away.我们最好马上把索取赎金的事安排好。
- The kidnappers exacted a ransom of 10000 from the family.绑架者向这家人家勒索10000英镑的赎金。
- The second group of measurements had a high correlation with the first.第二组测量数据与第一组高度相关。
- A high correlation exists in America between education and economic position.教育和经济地位在美国有极密切的关系。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
- The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
- You think you can intimidate people into doing what you want?你以为你可以威胁别人做任何事？
- The first strike capacity is intended mainly to intimidate adversary.第一次攻击的武力主要是用来吓阻敌方的。
- "If somebody'll come here and sit with him," he snapped authoritatively. “来个人到这儿陪他坐着。”他用发号施令的口吻说。
- To decide or settle(a dispute, for example) conclusively and authoritatively. 判定结论性、权威性地决定或解决（纠纷等）
- The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
- The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。
- He wore shoulderstrap rank slides with sergeant's chevrons.他佩戴标示级别的肩章，上面有中士的V形标志。
- The chevron or arrow road sign indicates a sharp bend to the left or right.V形或箭头路标表示有向左或向右的急转弯。