英国新闻听力 05

BBC News with Joe Macintosh.

Another major European bank is close to collapse¹ following the failure of talks to rescue Germany’s second largest mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate. The announcement comes as leaders of the major European economies agree to work together to help their troubled financial institutions. Emergency talks in Paris failed to bring an announcement of any big bail-out plan similar to that in the United States. Alasdair Sandford reports from Paris.

Not long after the end of the summit came a reminder² of how serious the crisis is, Germany’s second largest mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate is in trouble again after banks and insurers pulled out of a state-led rescue plan. Earlier, the four European leaders agreed at the summit that there would be no European bail-out fund for banks in trouble. President Sarkozy said they had promised to work together instead to support institutions that get into difficulty. President Sarkzoy and the Head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, said that the EU’s strict budget rules would be applied³ flexibly during the current exceptional circumstances.

Police in the Mexican city of Tijuana say they have discovered ten more murder victims in the city where gang-related violence has escalated⁴ in the past week. Police say five of the bodies were found in an abandoned van near a shopping center. Warren Bull of our America’s desk reports.

It’s been a particularly bloody⁵ week even by the standards of Tijuana, a key transit⁶ point for drugs trafficked to the United States. More than 50 people have been killed in the city in seven days. And the brutal⁷ treatment of the victims has shocked residents used to violence. State prosecutors⁸ blamed the murders on rival drug factions⁹, including members of the Arellano Felix drug cartel. On Tuesday, the Mexican President Felipe Calderon send a series of measures to Congress aimed at fighting the wave of drug-related violence in Mexico, that’s killed over 3,000 people this year.

North Korea’s reclusive leader Kim Jong-il is reported to have made his first public appearance since rumors¹⁰ surfaced that he had suffered a stroke. Here is Steve Jackson from our Asia Pacific desk.

It’s seven weeks since Kim Jong-il last appeared in public. And his absence has fueled much speculation¹¹ that he is in poor health. South Korean Intelligence reports say he fell ill in August, but had since made a slight recovery reportedly after a brain surgery. North Korea’s tightly-controlled state media say Mr. Kim went to a football match in Pyongyang. But no details were given on his health. The rumors have raised questions about who’s been running the country in the interim¹² and who will eventually succeed the 66-year-old autocrat¹³.

Israel has accused North Korea of helping¹⁴ at least 6 Mid-eastern countries to acquire weapons of mass destruction. An Israeli envoy¹⁵ told the annual conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency that North Korea was a dangerous and threatening proliferator¹⁶ of such weapons.

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The Indian army has deployed¹⁷ troops in two areas of the northeastern state of Assam after 11 people were killed in riots between local tribesmen and migrants of Bengali dissent¹⁸. Among the dead were three people killed when police opened fire. The trouble began later on Friday when rumors spread that the migrants had kidnapped one of the local Bodo tribesmen. Several villages where the migrants have settled were attacked and they in turn attacked Bodo communities.

The Turkish government says that the destruction of the Kurdish separatist rebels will now be its main priority. They are fighting for a homeland in the southeast of the country. The statement followed an emergency meeting of Turkey’s political and military leaders. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan is cutting short his regional tour to go home after Friday’s attack, the deadliest by the Kurdish forces for a year.

We were in meetings when we heard this information. This is similar to an event last May in the same region. The news we have is that we have 50 martyrs¹⁹. Two other soldiers are lost. 23 terrorists were put out of action and we have 20 wounded soldiers that were injured during the fight.

The United States military says two of its helicopters have crashed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad following a collision. A spokesman said the Black Hawk²⁰ helicopters went down after dark in the Sunni district of Adhamiyah. Officials said an Iraqi soldier was killed and four others were injured, two of them, American military personnel.

The government in Italy has deployed 500 troops around the southern town of Caserta near Naples where thousands of people have been demonstrating against racism²¹ and the apparent mafia killing²² of six African immigrants last month. Italian police say they believe the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, shot dead the immigrants to warn off Africans who got involved in the drugs trade.

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1 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

2 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。

3 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

4 escalated   

v.（使）逐步升级( escalate的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）逐步扩大；（使）更高；（使）更大

参考例句：

• The fighting escalated into a full-scale war. 这场交战逐步扩大为全面战争。
• The demonstration escalated into a pitched battle with the police. 示威逐步升级，演变成了一场同警察的混战。

5 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

6 transit   

n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过

参考例句：

• His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
• The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

7 brutal   

adj.残忍的，野蛮的，不讲理的

参考例句：

• She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
• They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。

8 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

9 factions   

组织中的小派别，派系( faction的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
• rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别

10 rumors   

n.传闻( rumor的名词复数 )；[古]名誉；咕哝；[古]喧嚷v.传闻( rumor的第三人称单数 )；[古]名誉；咕哝；[古]喧嚷

参考例句：

• Rumors have it that the school was burned down. 有谣言说学校给烧掉了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Rumors of a revolt were afloat. 叛变的谣言四起。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 speculation   

n.思索，沉思；猜测；投机

参考例句：

• Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
• There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。

12 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

13 autocrat   

n.独裁者；专横的人

参考例句：

• He was an accomplished politician and a crafty autocrat.他是个有造诣的政治家，也是个狡黠的独裁者。
• The nobles tried to limit the powers of the autocrat without success.贵族企图限制专制君主的权力,但没有成功。

14 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

15 envoy   

n.使节，使者，代表，公使

参考例句：

• 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。

16 proliferator   

[医]增殖子

参考例句：

• Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) are a family of at least 3 nuclear receptors (a, 8, andy). 其中PPARγ在心脏中表达丰富，胰岛素增敏剂噻唑烷二酮类药物是PPARγ的合成配体。
• Rosiglitazone belongs to a class of drugs known as peroxisome proliferator-actiated receptor (PPAR) agonists. 罗格列酮属于称为过氧化物酶体活化受体(PPAR)促效剂一类药物。

17 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

18 dissent   

n./v.不同意，持异议

参考例句：

• It is too late now to make any dissent.现在提出异议太晚了。
• He felt her shoulders gave a wriggle of dissent.他感到她的肩膀因为不同意而动了一下。

19 martyrs   

n.martyr的复数形式；烈士( martyr的名词复数 )；殉道者；殉教者；乞怜者（向人诉苦以博取同情）

参考例句：

• the early Christian martyrs 早期基督教殉道者
• They paid their respects to the revolutionary martyrs. 他们向革命烈士致哀。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

20 hawk   

n.鹰，骗子；鹰派成员

参考例句：

• The hawk swooped down on the rabbit and killed it.鹰猛地朝兔子扑下来,并把它杀死。
• The hawk snatched the chicken and flew away.老鹰叼了小鸡就飞走了。

21 racism   

n.民族主义；种族歧视(意识)

参考例句：

• He said that racism is endemic in this country.他说种族主义在该国很普遍。
• Racism causes political instability and violence.种族主义道致政治动荡和暴力事件。

22 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• 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。