时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:中英双语新闻


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BBC News with Cathy Clarkston.


President Donald Trump 1 says he has total confidence in the U.S. Attorney-General, Jeff Sessions, amid controversy 3 about his meetings with the Russian envoy 4 during last year's presidential campaign. Mr. Sessions has come under pressure since it emerged that he'd met the Russian Ambassador twice, despite telling the Senate on oath that he had not communicated with the Russians during the election campaign.


The Russian government says the Syrian Army, backed by Russian airstrikes, has completely retaken the historic city of Palmyra from the Islamic State group. Palmyra has changed hands several times during the conflict.


Egypt's highest appeal court has found the former president, Hosni Mubarak, not guilty of involvement in the killing 5 of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him to stand down. It's the final ruling in the long-running case.


Shares in the company that owns the messaging service, Snapchat, have jumped more than 50% on its stock market debut 6. Shares in Snap Inc. surged to more than 25 dollars each in the first hours of trading.


A Cuban singer has filed a complaint against the Colombian pop stars, Shakira and Carlos Vives, accusing them of plagiarizing 7 part of a song he wrote 10 years ago. Vives and Shakira's catchy 8 hit, La Bicicleta, won the Grammy Latino Award last year. The AFP news agency says Shakira's team has refused to comment on the case.


A drug given to pregnant women in 35 countries to protect them against malaria 9 has also been shown to safeguard against sexually-transmitted infections. The study found that many of the estimated 2 million stillbirths and new-borne deaths which occur every year in Sub-Sahara Africa are linked to the mother having such infections.


And scientists say they have developed a new treatment for people with a serious blood disorder 10, known as sickle 11 cell disease, which affects millions of people worldwide. For the first time, they've used gene 2 therapy on a French teenager, and say he is free of all symptoms.


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美国总统特朗普称其完全信任司法部长杰夫 赛辛斯(Jeff Sessions),虽然关于赛辛斯是否在去年的总统大选中与俄罗斯大使有过会谈之事尚无定论。赛辛斯自从被发现似乎与俄罗斯大使会见过两次后就处于巨大压力下,尽管赛辛斯曾对参议院起誓称自己在大选期间并未与俄罗斯人有过交流。


俄罗斯政府表示,叙利亚军队在俄罗斯空袭的支持下已经彻底从IS国手中收复了历史古城帕尔米拉(Palmyra)。帕尔米拉在交战期间已被多次易手。


埃及最高上诉法院判定前总统胡斯尼 穆巴拉克(Hosni Mubarak)不涉嫌参与2011年谋杀起义示威者,故判决无罪。据称这次起义让穆巴拉克被迫下台。这次判决也是穆巴拉克案件的终审判决。


提供信息分享服务“阅后即焚”(Snapchat)公司的股票在股市上市首日后即暴涨50%多。Snap公司的股票在开盘仅几小时后就猛涨到25美元以上。


某古巴歌手已提起一纸诉讼,控告两位哥伦比亚流行歌手夏奇拉(Shakira)和卡洛斯(Carlos Vives)部分抄袭他10年前所写的一首歌。夏奇拉和卡洛斯合唱的爆红歌曲《La Bicicleta》去年获得了拉丁格莱美的奖项。据法新社报道,夏奇拉团队对此案件拒绝置评。


一种给35个国家的孕妇服用以保护它们不得疟疾的药物经证实也可以保护她们不受性病感染。研究表明,撒哈拉以南非洲地区每年发生的近2百万死产和新生儿夭折的很多案例都与母亲感染性病有关。


科学家称已研究出一种严重血液疾病镰状细胞疾病的治疗方法,全球上百万人患有这种疾病。他们首次将基因疗法应用于一个法国少年病患的身上,称这位少年已不再受所有症状所扰。



1 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
2 gene
n.遗传因子,基因
  • A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
  • The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。
3 controversy
n.争论,辩论,争吵
  • That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
  • We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
4 envoy
n.使节,使者,代表,公使
  • Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
  • The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
5 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。
6 debut
n.首次演出,初次露面
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
7 plagiarizing
v.剽窃,抄袭( plagiarize的现在分词 )
  • He was accused of plagiarizing his colleague's results. 他被指控剽窃同事的成果。
  • Moderates are plagiarizing his ideas in hopes of wooing voters. 温和派为讨好选民在盗用他的观点。 来自辞典例句
8 catchy
adj.易记住的,诡诈的,易使人上当的
  • We need a new slogan.The old one's not catchy enough.我们需要新的口号,旧的不够吸引人。
  • The chorus is very catchy to say the least.副歌部分很容易上口。
9 malaria
n.疟疾
  • He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
  • Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。
10 disorder
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
11 sickle
n.镰刀
  • The gardener was swishing off the tops of weeds with a sickle.园丁正在用镰刀嗖嗖地割掉杂草的顶端。
  • There is a picture of the sickle on the flag. 旗帜上有镰刀的图案。
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