VOA标准英语2010年-Blast Kills Iranian Nuclear Physicist
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(一月)
An Iranian nuclear physicist 1 has been killed by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a motorcycle. Iranian prosecutor 2 general Abbas Jaafar Dolatabadi is pointing the finger at Western intelligence agencies. A U.S. State Department spokesman called the accusation 3 "absurd."
Iranian-government TV is calling the explosion that killed a physics professor at Tehran University a "terrorist act." The TV report says a bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed Massoud Ali-Mohammadi as he was getting into his car.
The TV showed relatives of Mohammedi crying in front of the building where he lived, as a large crowd of bystanders gathered around his burned-out vehicle. Most windows in the modern-looking building where he resided appeared to have been blown out from the force of the explosion.
Foreign Ministry 4 spokesman Ramin Mehmenparast accused Israel, America and Iranian mercenaries of being behind the "terrorist incident."
Tehran prosecutor-general Abbas Jaafar Dolatabadi told Iranian TV a similar story, saying because Massoud Ali Mohammadi was a nuclear scientist it was likely the CIA and the Mossad spy services and their agents had a hand in his killing 5.
At least a dozen street-cleaners worked feverishly 6 with their brooms, sweeping 7 up broken glass. An older man who witnessed the explosion explains what happened.
He says it was shortly after 7:00 a.m. when he heard the sound of an explosion that he thought was an earthquake. When he arrived at the scene, he says, the door of professor Ali-Mohammadi's house was torn off and there was a fire. He adds the professor's wife and children were crying, and the professor's head was slumped 8 to the side as he pulled him out of his vehicle, dead. I have known the family, he notes, for 24 years.
A monarchist opposition 9 group reportedly claimed responsibility for the assassination 10, accusing the professor of being involved in Iran's nuclear program. Several people that knew him indicated that he was a "theoretical physicist," denying he was involved in Iran's disputed nuclear program.
Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam TV called Mohammadi a "hezbollahi teacher," to indicate that he was a staunch government supporter. But an opposition Web site loyal to leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said Mohammadi was a well-known Mousavi supporter. Mohammadi was also a veteran of the bloody 11, eight-year Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
- He is a physicist of the first rank.他是一流的物理学家。
- The successful physicist never puts on airs.这位卓有成就的物理学家从不摆架子。
- The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
- The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。
- I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
- She knew that no one would believe her accusation.她知道没人会相信她的指控。
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
- 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。
- Feverishly he collected his data. 他拼命收集资料。
- The company is having to cast around feverishly for ways to cut its costs. 公司迫切须要想出各种降低成本的办法。
- The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
- Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？
- Sales have slumped this year. 今年销售量锐减。
- The driver was slumped exhausted over the wheel. 司机伏在方向盘上，疲惫得睡着了。
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
- 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。