2007年VOA标准英语-Israel-Palestinian Violence Escalates in West B

By Robert Berger
Jerusalem
21 April 2007

There has been a surge of violence between Israel and the Palestinians on Saturday. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, four Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and one in the Gaza Strip, while an Israel town came under rocket fire.

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Palestinians check the damage of the destroyed car of Islamic Jihad militant, Kamal Anan, after it was hit by an Israeli air strike at Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip

Israeli undercover troops fired at a car in the West Bank town of Jenin, killing² three Palestinian militants³. The army said troops came under fire and shot back, but Palestinians said it was an ambush⁴.

Earlier, soldiers raided a nearby village and another Palestinian was killed in a gun battle. It was the highest West Bank death toll⁵ in three months, and brought angry reaction from Palestinian legislator Saeb Erekat. "We condemn⁶ this Israeli raid. It's absolutely uncalled for, we don't need to go back to the cycle of violence," he said.

A few hours later, Palestinian militants in Gaza launched several rockets at the Israeli border town of Sderot. One rocket hit on a house but no one was hurt.

In response, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile that hit at a car near the rocket launch site. Israeli spokeswoman Miri Eisen. "What Israel is going to do is to protect our citizens against the continuous violations⁷ of the cease-fire by the Palestinian factions⁸ who want the ceasefire to end," she said.

The ceasefire in Gaza went into effect in late November, bringing a sharp reduction in violence. But the latest round of tit-for-tat attacks has raised fears that the truce⁹ could collapse¹⁰.

1 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

2 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。

3 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。

4 ambush   

n.埋伏(地点)；伏兵；v.埋伏；伏击

参考例句：

• Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
• Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。

5 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

6 condemn   

vt.谴责，指责；宣判(罪犯)，判刑

参考例句：

• Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他，而有些人谴责他。
• We mustn't condemn him on mere suppositions.我们不可全凭臆测来指责他。

7 violations   

违反( violation的名词复数 )； 冒犯； 违反（行为、事例）； 强奸

参考例句：

• This is one of the commonest traffic violations. 这是常见的违反交通规则之例。
• These violations of the code must cease forthwith. 这些违犯法规的行为必须立即停止。

8 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

9 truce   

n.休战，(争执，烦恼等的)缓和；v.以停战结束

参考例句：

• The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
• She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。

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。