英国新闻听力 英国将向乌克兰派军事人员以培训乌军

The British Prime Minister David Cameron has said London will deploy¹ military personnel in Ukraine to help train government forces. He told the Parliamentary committee that failing to stand up to Russia in eastern Ukraine may lead to destabilization in Moldova or the Baltic States. Here's report from our Defence of Diplomatic corespondent Jonathan Marcus.

With the fighting in Ukraine continuing, David Cameron is signaling the western resolve and a commitment to Ukraine. Britain, he said, was not at the stage of supplying lethal² equipment to the Ukrainian military. But giving evidence before the House of Commons Liaison³ committee, he announced the launch of a small training programme for Ukrainian army. Up to 75 British personnel will go to Ukraine, divided into a number of separate teams. Mr. Cameron made it clear that this is all about providing the Ukrainian military with knowledge. Britain is not joining in the fighting. And he stressed that all of the training will be well away from the area of conflict.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister has expressed fears that the pro-Russia rebels in the east of the country are moving their heavy weapons towards the strategic port of Mariupol instead of pulling them back in line with the agreed ceasefire. International monitors say they can not confirm the withdrawal⁴ of the rebel weaponry or their movement to Sumal till the reclaim⁵ has been reported on the ground. The OSCE monitors say that to verify any pullout, they would need to know the number of weapons, where they were being taken and by what means, and they did not have that information.

The White House says President Obama has vetoed the Bill that would have given the goahead for the construction of a controversial Keystone XL pipeline⁶ carrying oil from Canada to Nebraska. Its supporters say it could provide jobs and improve the US energy security, but environmentalists warn it could contribute to global warming. Gary O'Donoghue reports.

Despite significant majorities in both House and Senate for the pipeline, President Obama has always said he would not sign any legislation until the review have been completed by the State Department. His veto can only be overturned by a 2/3 voting both chambers⁷, among several Democrats⁸ voted for the measure in the Senate for example, supporters were still 5 short of overcoming that hurdle⁹. This is the third time the President has exercised his veto, but it represents the first major legislative¹⁰ clash between the President and the new Congress.

At least 27 people have been killed in northern Nigeria in apparently¹¹ coordinated¹² suicide bomb attacks on bus stations. The blasts occurred in Kano, the largest city in the north, as well as the town of Postikum. President Goodluck Jonathan condemned¹³ the killings¹⁴, but said the days of the mourning victims of incessant¹⁵ attacks would soon be over as the tide deterred¹⁶ against the Islamist group Boko Haram. The group has increased its activities ahead of elections that have been postponed¹⁷ because of security concerns until March.

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The American Justice Department has said a white man who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in Florida 3 years ago will not face hate-crime charges at a Federal level. George Zimmerman was acquitted¹⁸ of second-degree murder after saying he opened fire on Trayvon Martin in self-defence. The case triggered a fierce debate in the US of the guns and race relations.

The European Finance Commissioner¹⁹ has said the Euro-zone's approval of changes by Greece to its bailout programme has averted²⁰ an immediate²¹ financial crisis. But Pierre Moscovici said the deal was only the starting point, Greece has until the end of April to find a more permanent solution to its debt crisis. And the government of Alexis Tsipras has been criticised for abandoning many of its electoral promises, as Mark Lowen reports from Athens.

They had to roll back on certain pledges and for example their pledge to raise the minimum wage by 170 euros a month, to reverse privatization, to reverse austerity measures actually and to rehire thousands of public-sectors workers laid off during the financial crisis. What the Prime Minister said is that he was back into a corner on this, that Greece had to compromise and take awesome²² concessions²³ in terms of spending more on welfare, on helping²⁴ the victims of the humanitarian²⁵ crisis as they call it, but they had to negotiate with the Euro-zone on this, and they managed to negotiate and keep Greece in the Euro-zone.

More than 30 people have been killed in Iraq in a series of bomb blasts in and around the capital Bagdad. Twenty-five of the victims died in a dual²⁶ attack that took place just before sunset. First a suicide bomber²⁷ detonated in an explosive vest in a tea shop, then a minute later a car parked on the street outside blew up.

Fossil teeth found in Kenya have shed new light on the origins of the hippopotamus²⁸ and how it reached Africa. Researchers say the teeth which are about 28 million years old, confirmed the link to a family of now extinct plant-eating semi-acritic mammals called Hathoric Fears.

英国首相戴维·卡梅伦称伦敦将向乌克兰派遣军事人员来帮助培训政府军，他告诉议会委员会，如果未能抵抗在乌克兰东部的俄罗斯，那么就可能导致摩尔多瓦或波罗的海诸国的动荡。BBC国防外交记者乔纳森·马克斯报道。

由于乌克兰的战斗仍在继续，所以戴维·卡梅伦正表现出西方的决心和对乌克兰的承诺。他说，英国目前不会给乌克兰军队提供致命武器。但在向下议院联络委员会递交证据时，他宣布要给乌克兰军队提供小规模的培训项目。75名英国人员将前往乌克兰，并被分入几个团队。卡梅伦明确表示，所有这些都是为乌克兰军队提供知识，英国不会加入战斗，他强调所有的培训将远离冲突地区。

乌克兰外长对亲俄叛军在本国东部的行动表示担忧，因为叛军在将重型武器向战略要地马里乌波尔港转移，而不是根据之前达成的停火协议将之撤出。国际观察员称在有切实报道之前无法证实叛军撤离武器的事实，欧洲安全与合作组织观察员称要证实任何撤离行动，他们需要知道武器的数量，从哪里取的武器，以及通过什么手段，而他们并没有这些信息。

白宫称奥巴马总统否决了一项富有争议的允许建造从加拿大到内布拉斯加州输送石油的基石XL项目，项目的支持者称它能提供就业机会并改善美国能源安全，但环保人士警告称这将导致全球变暖。格林·奥·多诺休报道。

尽管众议院和参议院中相当多数人都支持该管道，但奥巴马总统一直表示他不会签署任何法律，直到得到国务院的全面审查为止。他的否决只能被两院的2/3投票推翻，尽管参议院中有几位民主党支持该措施，但支持者仍需要5票才能克服这个障碍。这是总统第三次表示否决，但这确实总统和新国会的首次重大立法冲突。

尼日利亚北部汽车站发生连环自杀式爆炸袭击，至少27人丧生。爆炸发生在北部最大城市卡诺和波斯狄克姆镇，总统古德勒克·乔纳森谴责了袭击事件，但称由于要遏制伊斯兰博科圣地组织，所以对袭击案件遇难者的哀悼将很快结束。该组织在选举之前活动越发猖獗，这次选举因安全考虑已经推迟到三月份。

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美国司法部称，三年前在佛罗里达州开枪打死手无寸铁黑人少年的白人将不会面临联邦一级的仇恨罪指控。乔治·齐默曼在承认出于自卫对马丁开枪后被免于二级谋杀罪，这起案件在美国引发对枪支和种族关系的激烈辩论。

欧洲财政专员称欧元区对希腊改变其纾困项目的批准避免了当下发生财政危机，但皮埃尔·莫斯可维西说该协议只是个开始，希腊直到4月底才能为其债务危机找到长久的解决方案。阿列克西斯·齐普拉斯的政府因放弃许多选举承诺备受指责，马克·罗文在雅典报道。

他们只得放弃一些选举承诺，比如将最低工资提高到170欧每月，扭转私有化，扭转紧缩政策，重新雇佣金融危机期间被解雇的政府雇员。总理说他已经被逼到角落里，希腊必须做出一些让步，在增加福利问题、帮助人道危机受害者上做出让步，但他们必须在这些问题上与欧元区进行协商，他们已经设法进行了协商并让希腊留在欧元区。

伊拉克首都巴格达城内外发生系列爆炸案，导致30多人遇难。其中25名遇难者在日落之前的两次袭击中丧生，第一起爆炸案中，一名自杀式爆炸者在一家茶叶店内引爆了炸弹背心，一分钟后一辆停靠在街上的汽车也引爆了。

在肯尼亚发现的化石牙齿为河马的起源及其如何抵达非洲解开了线索，研究者称这些牙齿有2800万年历史，经证实与目前一种已灭绝的食草哺乳动物家族有关联。

1 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

2 lethal   

adj.致死的；毁灭性的

参考例句：

• A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
• She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。

3 liaison   

n.联系，（未婚男女间的）暖昧关系，私通

参考例句：

• She acts as a liaison between patients and staff.她在病人与医护人员间充当沟通的桥梁。
• She is responsible for liaison with researchers at other universities.她负责与其他大学的研究人员联系。

4 withdrawal   

n.取回，提款；撤退，撤军；收回，撤销

参考例句：

• The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
• They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。

5 reclaim   

v.要求归还，收回；开垦

参考例句：

• I have tried to reclaim my money without success.我没能把钱取回来。
• You must present this ticket when you reclaim your luggage.当你要取回行李时，必须出示这张票子。

6 pipeline   

n.管道，管线

参考例句：

• The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
• A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。

7 chambers   

n.房间( chamber的名词复数 )；（议会的）议院；卧室；会议厅

参考例句：

• The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间：Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网

8 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 hurdle   

n.跳栏，栏架；障碍，困难；vi.进行跨栏赛

参考例句：

• The weather will be the biggest hurdle so I have to be ready.天气将会是最大的障碍，所以我必须要作好准备。
• She clocked 11.6 seconds for the 80 metre hurdle.八十米跳栏赛跑她跑了十一秒六。

10 legislative   

n.立法机构，立法权；adj.立法的，有立法权的

参考例句：

• Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
• Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。

11 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• 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。

12 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

13 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

14 killings   

谋杀( killing的名词复数 )； 突然发大财，暴发

参考例句：

• His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
• The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。

15 incessant   

adj.不停的，连续的

参考例句：

• We have had incessant snowfall since yesterday afternoon.从昨天下午开始就持续不断地下雪。
• She is tired of his incessant demands for affection.她厌倦了他对感情的不断索取。

16 deterred   

v.阻止，制止( deter的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• I told him I wasn't interested, but he wasn't deterred. 我已告诉他我不感兴趣，可他却不罢休。
• Jeremy was not deterred by this criticism. 杰里米没有因这一批评而却步。 来自辞典例句

17 postponed   

vt.& vi.延期，缓办，（使）延迟vt.把…放在次要地位；[语]把…放在后面（或句尾）vi.（疟疾等）延缓发作（或复发）

参考例句：

• The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
• The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。

18 acquitted   

宣判…无罪( acquit的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（自己）作出某种表现

参考例句：

• The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
• Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。

19 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

20 averted   

防止，避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 )； 转移

参考例句：

• A disaster was narrowly averted. 及时防止了一场灾难。
• Thanks to her skilful handling of the affair, the problem was averted. 多亏她对事情处理得巧妙，才避免了麻烦。

21 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

22 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

23 concessions   

n.（尤指由政府或雇主给予的）特许权( concession的名词复数 )；承认；减价；（在某地的）特许经营权

参考例句：

• The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工，公司将不得不作出一些让步。
• The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。

24 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。

25 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

26 dual   

adj.双的；二重的，二元的

参考例句：

• The people's Republic of China does not recognize dual nationality for any Chinese national.中华人民共和国不承认中国公民具有双重国籍。
• He has dual role as composer and conductor.他兼作曲家及指挥的双重身分。

27 bomber   

n.轰炸机，投弹手，投掷炸弹者

参考例句：

• He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
• Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。

28 hippopotamus   

n.河马

参考例句：

• The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud.孩子们真喜观看河马在泥中打滚。
• A hippopotamus surfs the waves off the coast of Gabon.一头河马在加蓬的海岸附近冲浪。