VOA标准英语2009年-Israeli Offensive Kills Senior Hamas Commander
时间：2019-02-07 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(一月)
A view shows smoke trails of Israeli Air Force jets over Gaza City, 03 Jan 2009
The sounds of explosions again rocked Gaza on Saturday as Israeli air strikes continued for the eighth consecutive 2 day.
Israel has been targeting senior Hamas militants 4. On Saturday, senior commander Abu Zakaria al-Jamal was killed in an Israeli air strike, two days after another militant 3 leader, Nizar Rayyan and his family were killed in a bomb attack.
Medical officials in Gaza say more than 420 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive and over 2,000 injured. U.N. officials estimate that a quarter of those killed were civilians 5.
Israel has also massed troops, tanks and artillery 6 around Gaza in preparation for a possible ground offensive.
In a televised address carried by Arab media from Damascus, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal had his own warning for Israel.
His message was clear - if you enter Gaza, our fighters will be waiting for you.
Meshaal warned of a "dark fate" if Israeli troops move into Gaza and said they would end up killed or captured.
Israel says it had no choice but to strike at Hamas militant targets in Gaza, after truce 7 talks with Hamas broke down and the Islamist group stepped up rocket attacks against southern Israel. Four Israelis have been killed in those attacks.
But televised footage of Gaza houses and mosques 8 being bombed, wounded Palestinian children bloodied 9 and crying, mangled 10 bodies being dug out of the rubble 11 have been shown across the region.
These images have fueled anger across the Muslim world and elsewhere. Thousands have turned out in anti-Israel protests in Arab and other capitals around the world and there are increasing calls for an immediate 12 halt to the violence.
Israel has made it clear it is not yet ready to stop and Hamas says it is not begging for a truce either.
In his weekly radio address Saturday, US President George Bush said Washington is working for a cease-fire, but he said a one-sided accord would not be acceptable.
"There must be monitoring mechanisms 13 in place to help ensure that smuggling 14 of weapons to terrorist groups in Gaza comes to an end," he said.
Mr. Bush put the blame squarely on Hamas and said its rocket attacks on Israel are an act of terror.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due in the region Monday as part of growing diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting.
- 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。
- It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
- The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
- 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。
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。
- This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
- The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。
- The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
- She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
- Why make us believe that this tunnel runs underneath the mosques? 为什么要让我们相信这条隧洞是在清真寺下？
- The city's three biggest mosques, long fallen into disrepair, have been renovated. 城里最大的三座清真寺，过去年久失修，现在已经修复。
- his bruised and bloodied nose 他沾满血的青肿的鼻子
- His pants leg was torn and bloodied when he fell. 他跌交时裤腿破了，还染上了血。 来自辞典例句
- His hand was mangled in the machine. 他的手卷到机器里轧烂了。
- He was off work because he'd mangled his hand in a machine. 他没上班，因为他的手给机器严重压伤了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
- We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
- The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms. 这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He explained how the two mechanisms worked. 他解释这两台机械装置是如何工作的。 来自《简明英汉词典》