万花筒 2011-10-21&10-23 特别报道：卡扎菲身亡

 Good morning. We are in the Good Morning America here on the East Coast, radio program on the West Coast because we have learned reports from Libya that Muammar Gadhafi, the leader of Libya for more than 40 years has been killed by rebel forces. That report is coming from the leader of the military council for the rebels for the National Transitional Council. He said that Gadhafi was captured and shot in Sirte, his hometown. Rebels, of course, have been pursuing there for several months, you will get the latest now from Jeffrey Coffin¹.

 

 

 

Good morning, George, this if true, is huge news. Libyan TV now is reporting the former dictator Muammar Gadhafi is dead. They say he was killed by rebel soldiers. According to Libyan TV, he pleaed don't shoot, don't shoot, but they shot him. The announcement made in very dramatic fashion by an anchoring Libyan TV [fly]draped[/fly] in the rebel flag,that green,black and red flag that we've seen so much. We need to emphasize that there is still no independent confirmation² of this. There is celebrational underway across Libya. And an official with interim³ rebel government told Al Jazeera that Gadhafi was shot in both legs. They now say that he died of those wound and they are going to make an official statement in a matter of hours. We still have to emphasize there is no independent confirmation of this. We do know that this morning anti-Gadhafi rebels finally took control of Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, the last loyalist holdout. And that means the rebels now control the entire country. George. 

 

 

 

OK, Jeffrey, thanks very much for this. No confirmation either from the White House, the Pentagon State Department Sources. Christian⁴, is joining us now. Of course this is huge news. He took over the coup⁵ in 1969, such a small country, but such a large role in that world.

 

 

 

Huge. He has been the global villain⁶ for so long now. You know, he has been accused of so many things, panner one or three, all these issues that had such close connection with the United States. Although he is sort of came in from the Cold a few years ago, but the minute this Arab Spring started, and Libya was really the second or third after Tunisia, Egypt. The world really decided⁷, enough is enough. It's unprecedented⁸, no fly zone, the United States put it up alone with NATO allies, helping⁹ the National Transitional Council, the Libyan rebels to get rid of this man. Now that so many of the people in Libya had the reason up. And I told him of course. 

 

 

 

It's so clear when you talked him several months ago that he didn't really know what's happening there. 

 

 

 

You know, none of these people do. When they have become cocoon¹⁰ and people have told them yes all their lives, they really don't know what's going on. I've seen that over and over again in revolutions and upheavals¹¹, such as these. But he really did not want to know what is going on. If you remember, the minute people started to rise up in the streets, he called them cockroaches¹² when they're gonna come after you, I'll never go to surrender. I'm going to stay here till I die. That kind of thing. 

 

 

 

But it was different this time because they were in such a deniable form, because there have been uprisings before. And they were always able to beat them back but it's a different world now. 

 

 

 

It's a completely different world and the people power is not going to be put back. Syria is an initial but here in the Libya, thanks to the US and its NATO allies, which brought the US in, there where able to crack Gadhafi's superior forces. 

 

 

 

Another major dictator is found. Christian, thanks very much when you go back to our radio program now. And we have much more on ABCNews.com.

1 coffin   

n.棺材，灵柩

参考例句：

• When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
• The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。

2 confirmation   

n.证实，确认，批准

参考例句：

• We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
• We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前，我们需要书面确认。

3 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。

4 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

5 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。

6 villain   

n.反派演员，反面人物；恶棍；问题的起因

参考例句：

• He was cast as the villain in the play.他在戏里扮演反面角色。
• The man who played the villain acted very well.扮演恶棍的那个男演员演得很好。

7 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

8 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

9 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。

10 cocoon   

n.茧

参考例句：

• A cocoon is a kind of silk covering made by an insect.蚕茧是由昆虫制造的一种由丝组成的外包层。
• The beautiful butterfly emerged from the cocoon.美丽的蝴蝶自茧中出现。

11 upheavals   

突然的巨变( upheaval的名词复数 )； 大动荡； 大变动； 胀起

参考例句：

• the latest upheavals in the education system 最近教育制度上的种种变更
• These political upheavals might well destroy the whole framework of society. 这些政治动乱很可能会破坏整个社会结构。

12 cockroaches   

n.蟑螂( cockroach的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• At night, the cockroaches filled the house with their rustlings. 夜里，屋里尽是蟑螂窸窸瑟瑟的声音。 来自辞典例句
• It loves cockroaches, and can keep a house clear of these hated insects. 它们好食蟑螂，可以使住宅免除这些讨厌昆虫的骚扰。 来自百科语句