时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2015年4月


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 A former professional football player will be spending the rest of his life in prison. 25-year old Aaron Hernandez played tight end for the NFL's New England Patriots 1. He had a contract worth $40 million, but Hernandez was arrested in 2013 and convicted yesterday for the murder of his one-time friend, Odin Lloyd. Hernandez's sentence is life without parole.


 
The European Union is suing Google. The E.U. says the Internet search company is violating anti-trust laws, unfairly limiting competition in the market place. How?
 
Well, if you search Google for a running watch, for example, you'll see pictures, prices, and links for watches whose companies paid Google to advertise on the site. Competitor's watches and the best or most relevant running watches may not be top search results.
 
Google says it respectfully but strongly disagrees with the complaint, and says that when Europeans are shopping online they are far more likely to use other sites than Google anyway.
 
Today is a day of remembrance at Virginia Tech. It's the eighth anniversary of a shooting when a student killed dozens of other students and faculty 2 before killing 3 himself. Norris Hall, where most of the victims were, was reopened two years later and now houses the Virginia Tech Center for Peace Studies and Violence Provention.
 
The al-Shabaab terrorist group attacked a Somalian government building this week. A Kenyan news aper reports that 15 people were killed, at least six of the Islamist militants 4 who want to replace Somalia's government also died in the attack. It happened less than two weeks after al-Shabaab targeted Christian 5 students at a Kenyan university. The terror group al-Shabaab is becoming deadlier and more ambitions. Al-Shabaab means "the youth" in Arabic, and it's a group that's risen out of the chaos 6 of the failed state of Somalia. The irony 7 is, as it's gained more international prominence 8, it's actually lost ground at home due to in-fighting in the group, successful operations by government sources, but also drone strikes by the U.S. At the same time, though, it's become more aggressive abroad, particularly in September 2013 when it carried out the West Gate Mall attack which killed more than 60 people. 
 
More recently, in April, the attack at Garissa University in Kenya that killed more than 150. Like ISIS, al-Shabaab has a powerful presence on the web, particularly in terms of recruiting. 
 
An added threat are al-Shabaab's deep ties to the U.S. A number of Somali Americans from cities such as Minneapolis that have large Somali American communities have gone to Somalia to join the ranks of al-Shabaab. Some of them have become suicide bombers 9. A man from Alabama, Omar Hammami, became the rapping jihadi, powerful in their recruiting videos, though he was later killed.
 
U.S. counterterror officials are seeing more communication as well as the sharing of know how and technology between al-Shabaab and other al-Qaeda-tied groups, such as AQAP in Yemen. And they say a credible 10 next step would be cooperation on joint 11 terror operations abroad.

1 patriots
爱国者,爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )
  • Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。
  • These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死,也不愿投降。
2 faculty
n.才能;学院,系;(学院或系的)全体教学人员
  • He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
  • He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。
3 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • 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。
4 militants
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。
5 Christian
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
6 chaos
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
7 irony
n.反语,冷嘲;具有讽刺意味的事,嘲弄
  • She said to him with slight irony.她略带嘲讽地对他说。
  • In her voice we could sense a certain tinge of irony.从她的声音里我们可以感到某种讥讽的意味。
8 prominence
n.突出;显著;杰出;重要
  • He came to prominence during the World Cup in Italy.他在意大利的世界杯赛中声名鹊起。
  • This young fashion designer is rising to prominence.这位年轻的时装设计师的声望越来越高。
9 bombers
n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 );投弹手;安非他明胶囊;大麻叶香烟
  • Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 credible
adj.可信任的,可靠的
  • The news report is hardly credible.这则新闻报道令人难以置信。
  • Is there a credible alternative to the nuclear deterrent?是否有可以取代核威慑力量的可靠办法?
11 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
学英语单词
absorbed volume
absorption capture
accidental state
Acer chunii
Allingham, Margery
amplitude of vibration method
become acquainted with
bind down
bork
broad-mindedly
buried focus effect
carbon tetrachlorides
cation exchange site
certificate of survey
character formation component
Chaussier's tube
chromian
constant level conversion
cresotinic acid
crimeridden
cylindrical lead absorber
deal-board
dithyrambic
domesticizes
draft tube support vane
dutyfree
dynamic loudspeaker
Ecology Mark
elementary cone
equilibalance
everyone group
explosive growth
farcin
ferrous powder
fructerist
gall bladder bile
gerichts
Giraudoux
goodest
gunk-holing
half-cooked
Header Footer Edit Window
hometowner
honey dew
honorariums
hot-stopping
irrigation way
job roles
keppen
keytop
knave of clubs
Labaz, Ozero
lady dress watch
leaderships
log blue
Lotus taitungensis
Lussanvira
machine check logout
marye
Mbalam
mean consumption
mesal terminal seta
Metrama
missing address marker
negated combined condition
nonglobular
oliganthous
optimum transmitting frequency
pilot level
plant hatchet
polarized receptacle
post failure
postoperative sinuses
propantheline
rail motor unit
rear turbine bearing
Registration of Ship Mortgage
regulatoryauthority
revise from
Sambang-ni
Saxonly
schottky trigger height
search game AND/OR tree
shirbet
single block machine
solid-state picture tube
soxhlet extraction
Stórafjall
superchunks
superheating heat
tajarin
taylor-made
Tepalcingo
This pencil is longer than that one
transportal crane
true absorption coefficient
twilight industry
two-stage agitation
unparking
upsetting couple
waxed cotton covered wire