2014年CRI 奥巴马派司法部长调查黑人青年被杀事件 利比里亚17名埃博拉患者失踪

 

US President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder¹ to Ferguson, Missouri, to investigate the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman.

The decision follows days of violent protests in the St. Louis suburb.

Holder has already authorized² a federal autopsy³ on the body of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old who was shot on Aug. 9.

An independent autopsy results determined⁴ that Brown was shot at least six times, including twice in the head.

Missouri's governor, Jay Nixon, called in the National Guard early Monday after police again used tear gas to quell⁵ protests that have taken place nightly since Brown's death.

Obama says he can't make any judgments⁶ about the situation in Ferguson until the investigation⁷ is complete.

Liberian authorities are continuing to search for 17 people who left an Ebola medical centre over the weekend after it was attacked by looters.

Officials say the weekend chaos⁸ in Monrovia highlights the growing unease in Liberia amid the mounting Ebola death toll⁹.

Liberia has reported over 400 Ebola-related deaths so far, the highest number of Ebola deaths among the affected¹⁰ West African countries.

The overall death toll stands at some 1,100.

Meantime, Guinea is stepping up sanitary¹¹ measures along its borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone, to prevent people infected with the Ebola virus from entering or leaving the country.

1 holder   

n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物

参考例句：

• The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
• That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

2 authorized   

a.委任的，许可的

参考例句：

• An administrative order is valid if authorized by a statute.如果一个行政命令得到一个法规的认可那么这个命令就是有效的。

3 autopsy   

n.尸体解剖；尸检

参考例句：

• They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
• A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。

4 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

5 quell   

v.压制，平息，减轻

参考例句：

• Soldiers were sent in to quell the riots.士兵们被派去平息骚乱。
• The armed force had to be called out to quell violence.不得不出动军队来镇压暴力行动。

6 judgments   

判断( judgment的名词复数 )； 鉴定； 评价； 审判

参考例句：

• A peculiar austerity marked his judgments of modern life. 他对现代生活的批评带着一种特殊的苛刻。
• He is swift with his judgments. 他判断迅速。

7 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

8 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

9 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。

10 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

11 sanitary   

adj.卫生方面的，卫生的，清洁的，卫生的

参考例句：

• It's not sanitary to let flies come near food.让苍蝇接近食物是不卫生的。
• The sanitary conditions in this restaurant are abominable.这家饭馆的卫生状况糟透了。