英国新闻听力 30

BBC News with Victoria Meakin.

Three Islamic militants¹ convicted of involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings have been executed in Indonesia. The men were shot by firing squad² in an island prison off the coast of Java where they were being held. 202 people were killed in the coordinated³ bomb attacks on nightclubs on Bali. Indonesians and tourists were among the victims. Lucy Williamson reports from Chilachap where the executions took place.

Most Indonesians welcome the executions, as did the bombers⁴ themselves. They never expressed remorse⁵ for the attacks, never regretted killing⁶ people they described as infidels. And they said they wanted to die as martyrs⁷. That's Indonesia's biggest fear now. It wants to send a clear message here that it will execute men who kill in the name of Islam. But it also risks making them into heroes and fueling the radical⁸ movement they belong to.

Rescue teams in Haiti are continuing to search the rubble⁹ of a school where the roof caved in on Friday, killing at least 82 people, most of them children. The Haitian Prime Minister Micheal Pearroui told the BBC she believed about 700 people were in the building at the time of the collapse¹⁰. She said 400-500 had been rescued. The head of mission for the charity Médecins Sans Frontières, Max Cosci, said time was running out to find more survivors¹¹.

"Unfortunately, the number of the casualties can only increase. There are something like 200 missing there. And then we, we think that they are still under this school collapse and for sure, in the next, definitely, our[challenge or the like] will be one of the time limits to find again someone alive."

("Unfortunately, the number of the casualties can only increase. There are something like 200 missing there. And then we, we think that they are still under this school collapse and for sure, and the next busiest hour will be one of the time limits to find again someone alive." )

Some news just in. Reports from Russia say at least 20 people were killed in an accident aboard a nuclear-powered submarine of the Russian Pacific Fleet. A senior Navy commander was quoted as saying that the submarine's nuclear reactor¹² had not been damaged. Details are still coming in.

The Cuban authorities are evacuating¹³ hundreds of thousands of people from low-lying eastern areas in advance of the arrival of a powerful Category-4 Atlantic hurricane with sustained winds of 220 kilometers per hour. Forecasters have warned that Hurricane Paloma could spark potentially catastrophic storm surges as high as eight meters. The former Cuban leader Fidel Castro rejected any aid from the United States. Michael Voss reports.

All of Cuba's central and eastern provinces have been placed on hurricane alert, triggering massive evacuations from low-lying coastal¹⁴ regions and other flood-prone areas. Hurricane Paloma has picked up speeds since sweeping¹⁵ through the Cayman Islands where storm surges and torrential rain caused flooding and blackouts. This late-season hurricane has risen to an extremely dangerous Category-4 storm with sustained winds of 140 miles an hour, though this may ease slightly before making landfall in Cuba late tonight or early tomorrow morning.

World News from the BBC.

The top United Nations official in the Democratic Republic of Congo has accused rebel forces and a government-allied militia¹⁶ group of committing war crimes during heavy fighting in the east of the country. The official Alan Doss said both sides had targeted civilians¹⁷ when fighting for control of the town of Kiwanja, north of the regional capital Goma. The rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has denied his forces committed atrocities¹⁸.

An appeal court in Yemen has halved¹⁹ a prison sentence given to a suspected al-Qaeda member who is on the list of the most wanted terrorists in the United States. The prisoner, Jaber al-Banna, will now serve five years in jail for his role in planning coordinated attacks on oil facilities in Yemen. The Yemeni authorities have not said why the sentence was reduced.

Iran has criticized the Untied²⁰ States President-elect Barack Obama for saying that it's unacceptable for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons. The Speaker of Parliament, Ali Larijani, said Mr. Obama's comment showed the pursuit of what he called the same wrong American policies. Change, Mr. Larijani said, had to be strategic.

Change must have a strategic basis, this is what it's expected on the international scene, not the repetition of demanding, and repetitive statements that we have heard from his tongue these past few days. This is tantamount to treading the same erroneous path as before. If you want the circumstances to improve in the region, they have to issue the right signals to the nations here.

An eight-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of his father and another man in the American state of Arizona. Police said the child confessed shooting the two men with a rifle on Wednesday in the small community of St Johns, northeast of Phoenix²¹. Prosecutors²² say the motive²³ isn't known.

BBC News.

1 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

2 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。

3 coordinated   

adj.协调的

参考例句：

• The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
• The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

4 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 remorse   

n.痛恨，悔恨，自责

参考例句：

• She had no remorse about what she had said.她对所说的话不后悔。
• He has shown no remorse for his actions.他对自己的行为没有任何悔恨之意。

6 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。

7 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》

8 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

9 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

10 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。

11 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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

12 reactor   

n.反应器；反应堆

参考例句：

• The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
• Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。

13 evacuating   

撤离，疏散( evacuate的现在分词 )； 排空（胃肠），排泄（粪便）； （从危险的地方）撤出，搬出，撤空

参考例句：

• The solution is degassed by alternately freezing, evacuating and thawing. 通过交替的冻结、抽空和溶化来使溶液除气。
• Are we evacuating these potential targets? 能够在这些目标地域内进行疏散吗？

14 coastal   

adj.海岸的，沿海的，沿岸的

参考例句：

• The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
• This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。

15 sweeping   

adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的

参考例句：

• The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
• Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？

16 militia   

n.民兵，民兵组织

参考例句：

• First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
• There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。

17 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• 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。

18 atrocities   

n.邪恶，暴行( atrocity的名词复数 )；滔天大罪

参考例句：

• They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities. 他们犯有最野蛮、最灭绝人性的残暴罪行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The enemy's atrocities made one boil with anger. 敌人的暴行令人发指。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

19 halved   

v.把…分成两半( halve的过去式和过去分词 )；把…减半；对分；平摊

参考例句：

• The shares have halved in value . 股价已经跌了一半。
• Overall operating profits halved to $24 million. 总的营业利润减少了一半，降至2，400 万元。 来自《简明英汉词典》

20 untied   

松开，解开( untie的过去式和过去分词 )； 解除，使自由； 解决

参考例句：

• Once untied, we common people are able to conquer nature, too. 只要团结起来，我们老百姓也能移山倒海。
• He untied the ropes. 他解开了绳子。

21 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

22 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。

23 motive   

n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的

参考例句：

• The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
• He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。