时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2013年(八)月


英语课

 We begin with breaking news, the war, yes, the war being fought tonight on the streets of Egypt and the huge problem it's become for the Obama administration. At this hour, a state of emergency is in effect across the country and at least 278 people, mostly opposition 1 members most in Cairo, are dead. 


 
 
 
This is new video of Egyptian security forces raiding one of two opposition camps there. They moved in this morning accompanied by tear gas and live ammunition 2. You can hear shooting in the background as troops kick a wounded man around. Said a protester who escaped one of the two camps, it's an open war. 
 
 
 
The raids touching 3 off running battles, new video as well of Muslim Brotherhood 4 fighters pushing an armored personnel carrier off the 6th of October Bridge. You will remember the bridge as one of rallying points leading into Tahrir Square during the 2011 uprising. Unlike then, the images coming in, the images you are seeing now reflect precious little inspiration, but plenty of desperation. 
 
 
 
Muslim Brotherhood supporters have been living in these camps for the last month-and-a-half, ever since the military ousted 5 Egypt's elected president, Mohammed Morsi, their frustration 6 building. The ruling military junta 7 making it clear for weeks now they wanted them out. So when the clearing of the camps started this morning, it came as no surprise. But it did mean danger for anyone close by. 
 
 
 
For the Muslim Brotherhood, it is very much an existential battle for some of those hard-core supporters. We will see them out there continuously determined 8. But then at the same time, you have ... 
 
 
 
It takes Secretary of State Kerry today calling the events deplorable. Egyptian Vice 9 President of Foreign Affairs and former top diplomat 10 Mohamed El Baradei has turned in his resignation. The Obama administration now considering calling off next month's big military exercises with Egypt, with questions growing about the president's handling not just of this chapter, but the entire saga 11 in Egypt.
 
 
 
Arwa Damon, who you saw just a moment ago with guns going off around her, she joins us tonight. Arwa, it's the middle of the night there, obviously comparatively quiet to earlier today. What have you seen and heard? 
 
 
 
Well, curfew is full on in effect. It's quite odd how eerily 12 quiet the streets have been tonight, especially compared to everything that we saw during the day. 
 
 
 
The Egyptian security forces not just having to deal with clearing the Morsi supporters from those two main sit-in sites, but really multiple front lines at the same time. We saw Morsi supporters trying to gather, break through the riot police's ranks. We also saw them actually taking over another square in Cairo, where they were as of tonight as well when we returned back to that location, digging in there, setting up these makeshift barricades 13 once again, field hospitals, readying themselves for even more clashes. 
 
 
 
The other issue here too, Anderson, is that the fighting that we're seeing taking place, the violence, it's not just clashes that are breaking out between those who support and oppose President Morsi and the security forces. You're also seeing clashes between Morsi supporters and residents in various neighborhoods where these sit-ins, the marches are taking place. 
 
 
 
Additionally to all of this, neighborhood watch, young men in various neighborhoods taking batons 14, bats, setting up checkpoints, searching vehicles. It's a very unpredictable situation right now. 
 
 
 
Yeah, Arwa, stay there. I want to bring in our Ivan Watson, who is in fact, happens to be here in New York.
 
 
 
You have obviously spent a lot of time, Ivan, in the Egypt over the last couple of years and you have seen a lot of this firsthand. Where does this go from here? Because the Muslim Brotherhood is not going away. The Muslim Brotherhood was outlawed 15 for decades and remained. Obviously it's on its heels right now but they're not going away. 
 
 
 
That is what is so frightening here. What does the military want the endgame to be? Do they expect the Islamists in Egypt will just simply disappear? If this was such a tenacious 16 organization that survived torture and imprisonment 17 in previous decades, they're not going to disappear. The experiment of democracy in Egypt that we kind of saw the beginnings of in 2011, I think it's very clear when you see this carnage and this death toll 18 that it's over. 
 
 
 
The fear is in the Sinai right now of Egypt, on the border with Israel. There are Jihadis, there are believed to be al Qaeda-linked groups that are waging open insurgency 19 against Egyptian security forces. There have been more deaths there in the last couple of days and could that spread now? You have closed the door to the democratic process to the preeminent 20 Islamist political force in Egypt. 

1 opposition
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。
2 ammunition
n.军火,弹药
  • A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
  • They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。
3 touching
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
4 brotherhood
n.兄弟般的关系,手中情谊
  • They broke up the brotherhood.他们断绝了兄弟关系。
  • They live and work together in complete equality and brotherhood.他们完全平等和兄弟般地在一起生活和工作。
5 ousted
驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺
  • He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
  • He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。
6 frustration
n.挫折,失败,失效,落空
  • He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
  • He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
7 junta
n.团体;政务审议会
  • The junta reacted violently to the perceived threat to its authority.军政府感到自身权力受威胁而进行了激烈反击。
  • A military junta took control of the country.一个军政权控制了国家。
8 determined
adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
9 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
10 diplomat
n.外交官,外交家;能交际的人,圆滑的人
  • The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话,紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
  • He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。
11 saga
n.(尤指中世纪北欧海盗的)故事,英雄传奇
  • The saga of Flight 19 is probably the most repeated story about the Bermuda Triangle.飞行19中队的传说或许是有关百慕大三角最重复的故事。
  • The novel depicts the saga of a family.小说描绘了一个家族的传奇故事。
12 eerily
adv.引起神秘感或害怕地
  • It was nearly mid-night and eerily dark all around her. 夜深了,到处是一片黑黝黝的怪影。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
  • The vast volcanic slope was eerily reminiscent of a lunar landscape. 开阔的火山坡让人心生怪异地联想起月球的地貌。 来自辞典例句
13 barricades
路障,障碍物( barricade的名词复数 )
  • The police stormed the barricades the demonstrators had put up. 警察冲破了示威者筑起的街垒。
  • Others died young, in prison or on the barricades. 另一些人年轻时就死在监牢里或街垒旁。
14 batons
n.(警察武器)警棍( baton的名词复数 );(乐队指挥用的)指挥棒;接力棒
  • There were many riot policemen with batons. 有许多带警棍的防暴警察。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Chinese police fight? Number one is a person with batons to fight! 满街飘的中国国旗,是一个老华侨在事发时那出来分给大家的,很感动,真的,从来一向多一事不如少一事的中国人今天团结到一起站出来反抗。 来自互联网
15 outlawed
宣布…为不合法(outlaw的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • Most states have outlawed the use of marijuana. 大多数州都宣布使用大麻为非法行为。
  • I hope the sale of tobacco will be outlawed someday. 我希望有朝一日烟草制品会禁止销售。
16 tenacious
adj.顽强的,固执的,记忆力强的,粘的
  • We must learn from the tenacious fighting spirit of Lu Xun.我们要学习鲁迅先生韧性的战斗精神。
  • We should be tenacious of our rights.我们应坚决维护我们的权利。
17 imprisonment
n.关押,监禁,坐牢
  • His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
  • He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。
18 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
19 insurgency
n.起义;暴动;叛变
  • And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国,动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
  • Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网
20 preeminent
adj.卓越的,杰出的
  • Washington was recognized as the preeminent spokesman of American Negroes by 1895. 到1895年,华盛顿被公认为美国黑人的卓越代言人。
  • He is preeminent because his articles are well written. 他的文章写得很漂亮,卓尔不群。
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Alexander's crown
ampex
Amstelmeer
arats
Auranti cortex siccatus
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backtrackings
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birth ratio
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calibration liquid
Calochortus albus
Cau, Song
cdot
claim entitlement
Clarensac
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containment cooling system
contract transportation
convolution operation
cooling method
CPRO
data handling equipment
diarylmaleimide
e in altissimo
energy-sapping
enforcement notice
entropy balance equation
Erb paralysis
exemplary role
fabry perot cavity
ferrimagnetisms
fishery processing ship
foreign capital in flow
furnace foundation
furnculosis
gauze sponge
godelier
grafite
grasps the nettle
hold in pledge
huntington-heberleim sink and float
hydraulic machine
hylion
infusoriform embryo
iodobromite
ketonic ester
logic(al) value
magnetic card filing cabinet
manufacturer's wire
masais
mauremys reevesii
memory time
migratory thrombophlebitis
misstating
nail smith chisel
noise pollution
NOT AND
optical depolarization
order Salientia
p.c.b.s
parabolic flight
permitio
perpendicular electric constant
persuadability
phlegmasia
pstis
pulse attenuator
Red Cross and Red Crescent
rheology of elastomers
saddle-bows
safe handling of cargo
screw driver for cruciate slot
seminists
smooth-surface
space-based observation
spherical iron particle
superfamily sphecoideas
theory of genasthenia
time-to-pulse height converter
to the advantage of
toric smoothing machine
touchinesses
translation tool
tread bracing layer
unryu-gata
vertical velocity gradient
waist packs
waitressed
walt whitmen
wholesomest
work loose
zinc dithiofuroate
Zitazonium