时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2011年(三)月


英语课

we're seeing the skies over Tripoli illuminated 1 by anti-aircraft gunfire from a number of different locations. We're also seeing big white flashes in the sky from some heavier anti-aircraft guns that are detonating high in the sky. This is the third time. Every two hours tonight since nightfall, there has been an attack and this heavy anti-aircraft gunfire


Because we're working with international partners, after the initial thrust that has disabled Gadhafi's air defenses, limits his ability to threaten large population centers like Benghazi, that there's going to be a transition taking place in which we have a range of coalition 2 partners -- the Europeans, members of the Arab League -- who will then be participating in establishing a no-fly zone there.


With respect to initiating 3 this action while I was abroad, keep in mind that we were working on very short time frames, and we had done all the work and it was just a matter of seeing how Qaddafi would react to the warning that I issued on Friday.


In Japan’s disaster, there are too many dead to have a proper funeral. It is too early to know how many children have been impacted by this disaster, but aid organizations believe that number will be well into thousands and they will feel the psychological damage for years to come.


We have already spoken to children who are having nightmares. They are unable to sleep. They are frightened of the sea because they believe it’s going to come back. They are frightened to be indoors because the building shakes so violently during the earthquake. So it is absolutely a chance. Many of these children are going to have difficulties, serious difficulties coming in turns to happen to them.


I was so afraid of that tsunami 4. I cannot even put my fear into words.


Others have been found. Survivors 5 have been in the news. So I still have some hope.


"Der Spiegel" is the German magazine that got hold of -- now published these photos. They are part of the case against this band of rogue 6 soldiers all facing court-martial out of Fort Lewis, Washington.


The pictures show U.S. soldiers identified by the magazine as Specialist Jeremy Morlock and Private First Class Andrew Holmes, both posing with a dead Afghan. Holmes and Morlock, currently facing charges related to the wrongful death of Afghan civilians 7. In a third picture, two apparently 8 dead Afghans are tied back to back.


The U.S. Army does require pictures of bodies to be used for identification in battle investigations 9, but doesn't condone 10 anything like posing or what some would call trophy 11 photos.



1 illuminated
adj.被照明的;受启迪的
  • Floodlights illuminated the stadium. 泛光灯照亮了体育场。
  • the illuminated city at night 夜幕中万家灯火的城市
2 coalition
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
3 initiating
v.开始( initiate的现在分词 );传授;发起;接纳新成员
  • He is good at initiating projects but rarely follows through with anything. 他善于创建项目,但难得坚持完成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Only the perchlorate shows marked sensitiveness and possibly initiating properties. 只有高氯酸盐表现有显著的感度和可能具有起爆性能。 来自辞典例句
4 tsunami
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
5 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
6 rogue
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。
7 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。
8 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
9 investigations
(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究
  • His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查,但没有发现什么。
  • He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
10 condone
v.宽恕;原谅
  • I cannot condone the use of violence.我不能宽恕使用暴力的行为。
  • I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war.我绝不允许任何导致战争的行为。
11 trophy
n.优胜旗,奖品,奖杯,战胜品,纪念品
  • The cup is a cherished trophy of the company.那只奖杯是该公司很珍惜的奖品。
  • He hung the lion's head as a trophy.他把那狮子头挂起来作为狩猎纪念品。
学英语单词
administrative setup
amylaemia
antaramian
articulatio mediocarpea
arylalkylamines
bear the responsibility of...
bearing flange
blasting compaction
bothids
bottom-up analysis
bourses
Bruchlayer
cathode ray function generator
Charollais, Mts.du
check ticket
chemographic
coordinates of celestial sphere
crosstalk unit
cysterne
decomposition efficiency
Dewar's bottle
dual streamers
electric dissociation
electrine
elfin safety
esterizes
fail to heal
false notes
fire gable
flexible arrangement of engine room
fortilice
FWT
genus thespesias
hafar al batin
harbour portal crane for general use
have a score to settle with sb.
heavy-wall pipe
Hebrew Union College
hexagonal belt
hilaire bellocs
hollerithabetical order
hosek
hot plate drier
Inj.
Kassel, Regierungsbezirk
kelly-moore
leukocytic alexln
lifespan development
loeffler's blood serum medium
log reading
Lusangi
Mahonia duclouxiana
main stalk rot
Malagasy Republic
marly soil
McCarthy, Eugene Joseph
Mediastinum medium
metal-insulator-semicoductor infrared detector
method of cementation
Mile Long Club
normative
OK,
on the grab
opposed to
ornitholeucism
peaking circuit
pedestal truck
photoassociative
photographic method
picotransistor
pitch on
plras
polarized voltage
polybromide
practical width
primary cholesteatoma of mastoid
pseudomethemoglobin
puerperal uremia
punnage
Rastas
refurbishment
relative chronology
repetitive peak-inverse
ride on a cycle
room for relaxation
rosseter
schematic map
servoanalog
stand wear and tear
steam-disengaging surface
storage sphere
storm surge
supercritical unit
telegraph radio
trans-regulation
tropodifene
tv-land
uniaperturate
unrealized gains or losses
variable wing area
war leader
water-surfaces