时间:2019-03-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


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Turkish prosecutors 1 have charged three people with negligence 2 and causing deaths in connection with the country's worst mining disaster.301 people died at the Soma coal mine last Tuesday after an explosion and fire.James Reynolds reports.


Turkey's state media reports that several dozen prosecutors are investigting the Soma mine collapse 3 and they've now made their first arrests, the police have taken some of the detainees to Soma's well guarded courthouse for questioning, their names have not been released but Turkey's Doan news agency reports that those arrested include the mine's general manager and also its operations manager.On Friday the company which owns the mine Soma holding repeatedly denied accusations 4 of negligence and poor safety standards.


Gunmen have attacked the parliament building in Libya and reported to have seized a number of hostages, some witnesses say the assailants from the powerful Zintan militias 6 that helpped to topple Muammar Gaddafi, while others say they've connected to the renegade former army officer Khalifa Haftar who led a major assault against Islamists in Benghazi on Friday. Both groups want Parliament handover power to the body drafting a new Libyan constitution.Rana Jawad described how the attack unfolded.


That started off with an attack against the headquarters of the congress,it didn't last for very long but a lot of heavy arms were fired as they reached the gate and went in.The Zintan brigades that's and they withdrew and since then for another few hours throughout the evening we heard a lot of gunfire and smaller explosions, we understand that was perhaps a continuation of the struggle for power and it was basically between the Zintan militia 5 brigades and another rival militia that's based across the road from them.


The Malian Prime Minister says the country is now at war with Tuareg separatists in the north and the troops are being sent there to retake the town of Kidal that the rebels partly control.Moussa Mara spoke 7 after more than 13 people were killed in clashes in the city of Saturday.A fighting broke out during Mr.Mara's visit to Kidal, the rebels called it a provocation 8.The militants 9 are still holding 28 people they seized after the violence.French and African troops have been fighting to clear northern Mali of Tuareg separatists and Islamist forces.


Colombia's presidential campaign has taken an unexpected turn but a news magazine published a video of the leading candidate discussing illegal interceptions with the former adviser 10, the adviser was at jail for illegal hacking 11 and espionage 12.The candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga had previously 13 denied any knowledge of the man's illegal activities.He'd been hired by Mr.Zuluaga's campaign as a computing 14 security expert.


World News from the BBC


Reports from Syria say that a top ranking officer in the army has been killed in fighting near Damascus.The security official and opposition 15 activists 16 say the general Hussein Ishaq died of wounds during a battle to recapture the town of Mleiha from rebel fighters.General Ishaq was the head of the government's air defense 17 forces, state media has so far made no mention of his death.


Emergency workers in Serbia are preparing for what they call a flood wave on one of the country's main rivers the Sava, a week of torrential rain in the western Balkans has caused landslides 18 flooding and at least 35 deaths.The rain has now stopped in Belgrade but flood waters from neighboring Croatia and Bosnia are expected to flow down the river Sava, raising the water level so much that it could burst its banks.


The disgraced French financial trader Jerome Kerviel has started walking back to France to face justice.He is due to start a three year jail term for five billion Euro fraud within next hour.He spent the last two months on a protest walk from Rome.Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.


Jerome Kerviel's return on foot from Italy to face French justice turned into a media circus over the weekend has convicted the rogue 19 trader walked to within a hundred meters of the frontier and then turned back.Now he says he's changed his mind again and will cross the border.In fact the French police have given him until mid-night Sunday to turn himslef in after which they say he will be considered a fugitive 20 and object to the European arrest warrant.Mr.Kerviel lost his last appeal against the three-year prison term in March.


Inmates 21 at a maximum security prison in northeastern Brazil have released four guards and nearly 130 other people that they took hostage on Saturday.Most of those held were relatives of the prisoners including 15 children.They had been visiting the prison at the time.



检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
n.疏忽,玩忽,粗心大意
  • They charged him with negligence of duty.他们指责他玩忽职守。
  • The traffic accident was allegedly due to negligence.这次车祸据说是由于疏忽造成的。
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
n.指责( accusation的名词复数 );指控;控告;(被告发、控告的)罪名
  • There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
  • He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。
n.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
n.民兵组织,民兵( militia的名词复数 )
  • The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
  • The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.激怒,刺激,挑拨,挑衅的事物,激怒的原因
  • He's got a fiery temper and flares up at the slightest provocation.他是火爆性子,一点就着。
  • They did not react to this provocation.他们对这一挑衅未作反应。
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.劝告者,顾问
  • They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动
  • The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
  • We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。
n.间谍行为,谍报活动
  • The authorities have arrested several people suspected of espionage.官方已经逮捕了几个涉嫌从事间谍活动的人。
  • Neither was there any hint of espionage in Hanley's early life.汉利的早期生活也毫无进行间谍活动的迹象。
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
n.计算
  • to work in computing 从事信息处理
  • Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代(约1980年),他们就创办了软件公司。
n.反对,敌对
  • 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。
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
山崩( landslide的名词复数 ); (山坡、悬崖等的)崩塌; 滑坡; (竞选中)一方选票占压倒性多数
  • Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
  • The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。
n.流氓;v.游手好闲
  • The little rogue had his grandpa's glasses on.这淘气鬼带上了他祖父的眼镜。
  • They defined him as a rogue.他们确定他为骗子。
adj.逃亡的,易逝的;n.逃犯,逃亡者
  • The police were able to deduce where the fugitive was hiding.警方成功地推断出那逃亡者躲藏的地方。
  • The fugitive is believed to be headed for the border.逃犯被认为在向国境线逃窜。
n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )
  • One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
a great card
Abou Châch
air-pressure water system
analytically normal
area of wetted surface
aristeromycin
aromorphosis
arterial cannulation
articulatio capitis costae
Attercliffe
bank term loan
Blitar
bored games
brachium of the inferior colliculus
bureau of harbour adminitstration
caste-like
casting scrap
celiac glands
centering support
centropages sinensis
Cerva
channa micropeltes
chicoraceous
clepeth
closed cut
connector bend
cross cultural research
ctenophora (dictenidia) formosana
curl of lip
demoralized
desorbing
dropper plate of free grain
drug-addictions
eiaj standards
elenhank
end signal
epitoxin
excess-three code
finger printing
focal-length
formal axiomatics
forwarder's bill of lading
galium mollugoes
gelation point
goldhagen
grasp sb by the wrist
group data item
guaranteed speed regulation
Harpers
Hemorrhagometry
homesitter
hot jacket
hypoinsulinemia
ideal life
inlet ran
intralesional therapy
jania arborescens
Joseph Louis Barrow
kinematic of particle system
kuvis
leading group
leadsheathed and armoured cable
local void distribution
makes a deposit
map-cases
monopole double throw switch
multi programming
near-record
neoformative silver iodide
oart
oceanide trend
operational function
Paenungulata
phase failure relay
pole drain
preliminary transformations
presalting
program-to-program interface
progressive method
reference enthalpy
rose(flower) oil
saratoga trunk
semi automatic ground environment
signal process
Sims's suture
solid-state unit
spectral radiance standard lamp
Stiefel-Whitney number
stormglass
strike hands
sulphinuz process
Tadami-gawa
Tarapaya
throttle device
tiddly suits
to look a gift horse in the mouth
tumbagas
unfinished product
Vogan
wearyish
Yffiniac
York boat