时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2015年11月


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 Paris, France, and the international response to them.On Friday night, three teams of terrorists assaulted six locations throughout the French capital. They were armed with guns and suicide bombs. Their attacks were coordinated 1. Meaning, they were timed to coincide. And the targets included a stadium, a concert hall and some restaurants.At least 129 people were killed. More than 350 others were wounded, dozens of them left in very serious condition.It was the worst violence in France since World War II. Shortly after the attacks, French President Francois Hollande said France's borders would be closed. Meaning, people wouldn't be allowed to enter or leave the country, though in several places, it appeared that travelers could still come and go.President Hollande blamed the Islamic extremist group ISIS for the attacks. And the terrorist group itself said it was responsible. French officials reported that seven of the attackers were killed, but they weren't sure how many terrorists were involved overall, and they're currently hunting for anyone else involved.A car rented in Brussels, Belgium was found in one of the attack sites. That led to a number of police raids and arrests in the Belgian capital.Officials say at least one of the terrorists entered Europe along with millions of refugees from war-torn Syria. That further complicates 2 the European crisis in terms of how to maintain security.The attack also shows that the threat from the ISIS terrorist group is changing, and extending well beyond Iraq and Syria.


The recent attacks in Beirut, perhaps the downing of the Russian airliner 3 and now, Paris, shows us that ISIS is supplanting 4 al Qaeda as the most dangerous terrorist group in the world.What we're seeing here is ISIS moving to really phase two of its development. Attacks like the one in Paris really are indiscriminate. They're meant to kill as many civilians 5 as possible. Hitting the French capital on a Friday when people are out on a beautiful evening is the kind of attack that will shake Western society for many years to come.In response to this, the FBI has been increasing training for police departments around the country to get ready for what type of attacks ISIS likes to carry out. What we've seen is increased security at nightclubs, at stadium, any place where people gather. The FBI says that the vast majority of the 900 or so investigation 6 of extremists in this country are ISIS-focused.This is a terrorist organization that is no longer just trying to build and control territory in Iraq and Syria. It is trying to project attacks in the West. And that is a scary prospect 7 for counterterrorism officials around the world.

1 coordinated
adj.协调的
  • The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
  • The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
2 complicates
使复杂化( complicate的第三人称单数 )
  • What complicates the issue is the burden of history. 历史的重负使问题复杂化了。
  • Russia as a great and ambitious power gravely complicates the situation. 俄国作为一个强大而有野心的国家,使得局势异常复杂。
3 airliner
n.客机,班机
  • The pilot landed the airliner safely.驾驶员使客机安全着陆。
  • The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.旅客们被引导走过跑道去上飞机。
4 supplanting
把…排挤掉,取代( supplant的现在分词 )
5 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • 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。
6 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
7 prospect
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
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air request
aseismic region
automatic field observing system (afos)
bandolist
basic period
benguelas
bensmaia
bio-robot
black flag
bodgine
boserups
bridge hybrid
bubble eccentricity
calfornium
canal-building
careership
caught on the hop
change in offer
circus kip
clustered airfield defeat munition (cadm)
continuous tenses
Croesan
crossing end
Cubanness
cultogenic
deletion operator
density stratification
dermal pore
despere
dindle-dandle
do someone the pleasure of
downward modulation
dudney
dwarfy
Einstein (equation)
encoded signal
ethylsulfuric acid
European magpie
flame tree
flat-huntings
Gauteng Prov.
gear rework
Gomphostemma pedunculatum
have quality
heel side
high heat
hire oneself to
HPES (human power evaluation systems)
hydrogenated aviation fuel
ice cubes
Imuvert
interlocking area
internal orifice of cochlear aqueduct
keymask
kientz
Laurel Gardens
letter of transfer
line-in-line reaction
Meeting rudder!
metamorphic deposit
MIME encoding
monoacyl
muddles through
murinest
Narga
organ genitalia
out-of-stater
po1ygon wind tunnel
postapp
probabilistic limit state design method of bridge
properest
puccinia crepidis-japonicae
pudeur
pump-out
rain fade
ratio-to-moving average
read through model
reflects
republicas
ringshaped stiffener
rock winding
Rotundacodina
salaried staff
screw steel
section-house
semicelebrity
sling oneself up
snowblade
sociological school
sodium hydrogen arsenide
Spiradiclis bifida
sunken fascine
survival capsule
tractabilities
transfer clock
trigonellinamide chloride
Tåkern
under-the-cover modem
unordain
unsheriffed
ventilating-hole
wfsu