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。
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absolute cell reference
acrocercus
approach flow
ashiya
asymptotically equivalent test
atrabilious
be choked to death
be on the band waggon
blue-greys
boedijnopeziza insititia
buffalo berries
cafaro
cajon
cell staining cage
Clinokupfferite
clunkings
co-current drum magnetic separator
continuous motion projector
cut-off-die
damp retention in middle-Jiao
deep radial nerve
diffused junction transistor
directional control circuit
dynamic percolation model
eisenman
electronic controlled incubator
elliptic restricted problem
eustoma russellianum
expected utility
fetters
Fibercon
first fundamental form
flashing pipe
gear shaper cutter
glass temperature
guarapari
Gwandi
hangar pilot
high radiohalogen leakage
high-temperature x-ray camera
hohlt
horizontal kneeand-column type milling machine
human intervention
hydratropoyl
Hygrophila lancea
Kagwara
karaslava
Kisigo
knowabler
LET (linear energy transfer)
magnetochemists
monocular strabismus
monthan
motion compensator
Mukandwāra
multistage grinding
natural orders
Ngau Hom Shek
nickel note
nierembergia frutescenss
nominal outside diameter of tubing
non - performing loans
oriolus chinensis
orthogonalized tight-binding method
paxite
per-users
perturbing potential
Pestalozzianism
petrochemical plant
plong
preautophagic
predestinary
pulling controller
record sequence own code
reheat combustion chamber
Reocorin
reverse position
Ringgold Is.
rocket target
schoenhut
scintillnometer survey
secondary foci
selfacting twiner
signalising
Sikhoraphum
simple bridge
skabe
sound recorder
square mesh grid
strobe lights
structural mechanics of beam system
susecptibility
timese
titanotherium
Tolfa, Mti.della
tone colour
type in
unobserved variable
unusual phenomenon of stability
voragine
whale-watch
zayna