时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2013年


英语课

 -I got a phone call. He told me that I want to introduce you to somebody very important.The Lebanese smuggler 1's ploting paid off.


-Then Benjamin Y* introduced me to Issa. 
War criminal Issa Sesay controlled the diamond mines in Sierra Leone. He also recruited child soldiers and over-sows savage 2 spread of rape 3 and murder. His reign 4 of terror was sustained by the illegal trade in blood diamonds.
-He is the chief of the rebels. He's Sierra Leone.
From 1992 to 2003, the so-called rebels of the RUF, or Revolutionary United Front, terrorized the population, torturing, raping 5, mutilating and murdering men, women and even infants, to seize power and diamond mines of Sierra Leone. Yet Samuel Sally apparently 6 had no qualms 7 in dealing 8 with vicious warlord, a key perpetrator in a civil war that claimed some 120,000 lives and led tens of thousands mutilated.
At their first meeting, Sesay presented him with an impressive parcel of rough diamonds.
-This is the parcel I came for it, and it's all perfect stones.
The gem 9 smuggler agreed to the 100,000-dollar asking price, knowing that its profit from the geminated sales in Antwerp would be huge. But if he want more blood diamonds from rebel h*, payment in cash wouldn't suffice.
-They want weapons, to be paid in diamonds. You have to have also stiff to do that.
Paying cash upfront, the deal was sealed on the understanding that the shipment of weapons will be arranged later. As a sweetener, the rebel commandor showed Samuel Sally a perfect, 37-carat diamond. He paid 40,000 dollars for it. Once it was smuggled 10 back to Antwerp, Sally's finanical backer,A* , sold it on for 400,000 dollars, a staggering mark of 1000...

1 smuggler
n.走私者
  • The smuggler is in prison tonight, awaiting extradition to Britain. 这名走私犯今晚在监狱,等待引渡到英国。
  • The smuggler was finally obliged to inform against his boss. 那个走私犯最后不得不告发他的首领。
2 savage
adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人
  • The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
  • He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。
3 rape
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
4 reign
n.统治时期,统治,支配,盛行;v.占优势
  • The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
  • The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
5 raping
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的现在分词 );强奸
  • In response, Charles VI sent a punitive expedition to Brittany, raping and killing the populace. 作为报复,查理六世派军讨伐布列塔尼,奸淫杀戮平民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The conquerors marched on, burning, killing, raping and plundering as they went. 征服者所到之处烧杀奸掠,无所不做。 来自互联网
6 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。
7 qualms
n.不安;内疚
  • He felt no qualms about borrowing money from friends.他没有对于从朋友那里借钱感到不安。
  • He has no qualms about lying.他撒谎毫不内疚。
8 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
9 gem
n.宝石,珠宝;受爱戴的人 [同]jewel
  • The gem is beyond my pocket.这颗宝石我可买不起。
  • The little gem is worth two thousand dollars.这块小宝石价值两千美元。
10 smuggled
水货
  • The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网
学英语单词
-crasy
acoustic impedances
Alawa
alimentarn crop
aluminum cable
Amblystegieae
amount of fixed assets employed
Anchodaya
antianopheline
Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church
auxil
auxiliary heat
beast of chase
bottoms-of-the-league
boustrophedons
brake step
California psychological inventory
calvinistic baptists
cap and gown
CAT 4
center,centre
chalazes
Chauffard-Still disease
Chopim, R.
cilacap (tjilatjap)
COMA-A
cultural influence
current monitoring
Dallastown
degradation sheet
direct product component
direge
down hold
easley
effie
eigenform
elementary bodies
embowment
english-baseds
featherlessness
final extension
fixed cycle transfer
flak catcher
furrow field
gene copy
gowlands
green pigment
greyn
guttate perthite
high speed amplifier
Hombaek
image-frequency interference
inspired air
inter-axillary
istigobius campbelli
karaganov
kozhanovite
Launaea sarmentosa
leptynol
lithium-drift detector
Megachilidae
metzingers
microdosing
miko
mini moon
mixed propagation
move downward
nethen
nouveaux pauvres
Nucleus anterolateralis
out of wood
overfronted
pain-taking
Penjamillo
pepe loop
photographies
pisher
plasticizing bath
plus earth
prosthetic lens
quaranfil virus
quickbasic
religio-political
reproductive cell
Rubia haematantha
rue anemones
school agricultural plot
Shanghai dialect
soubresaut
stickbaits
stonebucks
systematic screw series experiments
the empty nest
through feed grinding
tidines
totally quasiumbilical submanifold
variable paper speed recorder
verrucas
vidarbha
voacangarine
waaw
water voltmeter