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The national convention of the Republican Party in the United States has been disrupted after delegates were not allowed to register their opposition¹ to the candidacy of Donald Trump². Delegates are due to adopt Mr. Trump as their nominee³ later this week. From Cleveland Ohio, James Cook reports. There were some crowds as opponents of Donald Trump failed to force a rule change which would've allowed them to mount a symbolic⁴ challenge to the tycoon's nomination⁵. As the chairman declared that the demand for the so called roll call vote had been defeated by acclamation, there was pandemonium⁶ with some anti-Trump delegates storming out. The YEAs have it. Some again chanting for the vote, but to no avail. That was James Cook. Mr. Trump is expected to introduce a speech by his wife later this evening.

Officials in Germany say a 17-year-old Afghan immigrant has attacked four people on a train near the southern city of Wurzburg. Our correspondent in Berlin is Damien McGuinness. Three people have been seriously injured and 14 have been treated for shock after a man attacked passengers with an axe⁷ on a train in southern Germany. The man was chased by police and after attacking officers with a knife was then shot dead. According to Bavaria Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, the attacker was a 17-year-old Afghan who came to Germany as an asylum⁸ seeker.It's not yet clear though what the motivation behind the attack was.

The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said suggestions that he is punishing his political opponents following last week's coup⁹ attempt are libelous¹⁰. About 18,000 police officers, military personnel and judges have been suspended or arrested in the days since the coup was put down. Among of its supposed leaders, the Air Force Commander General Akin¹¹ Ozturk has appeared in court marked by several recent wounds. The General denied any involvement in the uprising.

Russia's participation¹² in next month's Olympic Games is in the balance after it was accused of state’s sponsored cheating across a range of sports. Sarah Rainsford reports from Moscow. Russia now faces the prospect¹³ that its entire Olympic team could be banned from competing in Rio following evidence that doping was covered up systematically¹⁴ across disciplines. The deputy sports minister Yury Nagornykh has already been suspended. He was named as the key figure in the reports accused of directing operations from the sports ministry¹⁵.

The South Korean military says North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its eastern coast. It says that the missiles had a range which enables them to strike all South Korea. This month Pyongyang threated to take action in response to the planned deployment¹⁶ of US anti-missile system in the south. World news from the BBC.

MPs in Britain have voted overwhelmingly in favor of renewing the country's aging nuclear deterrent¹⁷. The YEAs for the right 472, the NAYs¹⁸ are left 117. The vote has been called by Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May whose conservative party backed the motion as to the number of Labor¹⁹ MPs. That give a free vote by their leader Jeremy Corbyn an opponent of nuclear weapons. Tom Symonds followed proceedings²⁰ in the House of Commons. After countless²¹ previous debates about nuclear weapons, many of the arguments deployed²² in this one were familiar, but all from the virtue²³ of independent deterrent, were set against the claim that the threat has changed since the days of the Cold War. Early in debate, both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were asked if they would be prepared to launch a nuclear attack capable of killing²⁴ 100,000 people or more, she said briskly yes, his answer no.

Finally, the authorities in Guatemala say an army officer convicted of killing an outspoken²⁵ and Catholic Bishop²⁶ has died in a prison riot. Byron Lima had been serving a 30-year sentence for the murder in 1998 of Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi, an opponent of the then military regime. Candace Piette reports. A lawyer for Byron Lima claimed he had been shot by a rival gang within the jail, the former army captain is reported to have been one of the most powerful inmates²⁷ in Guatemala's prison system. He’d recently forbidden a rival gang from selling drugs in the prison where he was serving his sentence. Lima had been convicted along with his father, an army colonel, and a third man of the murder of bishop Gerardi. The cleric was killed two days after publishing a report in which he blamed the Guatemalan army for most of the human rights abuses committed during the country's long military conflict.

在共和党全国代表大会上，党内反对者不同意提名特朗普为总统候选人，大会被短暂打断。本周末，党代表将提名特朗普为总统候选人。请听詹姆斯·库克为您从俄亥俄克里夫兰发回的报道。反对者曾希望修改提名规则，但未能成功，根据提名规则特朗普将稳获总统提名。在欢呼声中大会主席表示，收到的签名数不足以支持进行唱名表决。赞成票多于反对票。还有许多人仍叫嚷投票，但徒劳无功。以上是詹姆斯·库克的报道。当天晚些时候，特朗普夫人将发表演讲。

据德国有关部门表示，一名17岁阿富汗难民在列车上砍伤四人，地点位于南部城市维尔茨堡附近。请听本台驻柏林记者达米安·麦吉尼斯的报道。在德国南部，一名阿富汗男子手持斧头向列车乘客袭击，造成3人重伤，14人受到惊吓。该男子随后遭警方追击，并用匕首向警方袭击，随后被警方击毙。据巴伐利亚州内政部长约阿希姆·赫尔曼表示，袭击者为阿富汗人，现年17岁，前往德国寻求庇护。袭击动机尚不清楚。

土耳其总统埃尔多安表示，那些称我要惩罚政治反对派的言论纯属诽谤，土耳其曾于上周发生军变。随着军变尘埃落定，包括警署、军人以及法官在内的1.8万人遭停职或逮捕。空军司令埃金·奥斯杜克出现在法庭之上，身上见多处伤痕，许多人认为奥斯杜克是此次军变指挥。司令否认参与此次军变。

因被指控存在国家主导服药行为，俄罗斯里约奥运之行扑朔迷离。请听萨拉·兰斯福为您从莫斯科发回的报道。因被查出国家层面舞弊行为，俄罗斯代表团或全部无缘里约奥运。副体育部长纳格尤科已遭停职。人们认为他是此次事件的关键人物。

据韩国军方表示，朝鲜在东部海域发射了三枚弹道导弹。称导弹射程能够覆盖韩国全境。本月，美韩计划在韩国部署导弹防御系统，朝方曾威胁要采取行动。BBC全球新闻。

英国议会举行投票，并以压倒性优势支持更新老旧的核威慑系统。支持票数为472，反对票为117。新任首相特雷莎·梅提出表决，而她带领的保守党几乎全员支持。工党议员可以进行自由投票，工党领袖杰里米·科尔宾不支持核武器。请听汤姆·西蒙兹为您从下议院发回的报道。此前，议员曾对核武器进行过无数次讨论，许多争论与这次投票如出一辙，而此次“独立核威慑”是在冷战后威胁变化的背景下提出的。在讨论初期，当两人被问及是否会使用致十几万人死亡的核武器时，特雷莎·梅毫不犹豫的说会，而杰里米·科尔宾却说不会。

据危地马拉官方表示，因谋杀天主教主教而入狱的军官在监狱暴乱中死亡。拜伦·利马曾于1998年谋杀主教，军政府反对者胡安·约瑟·赫拉尔迪，利马的服刑期限为三十年。请听坎迪斯·皮亚特的报道。利马代理律师表示，当事人是在监狱中被敌对帮派枪杀，曾有报道称，前军事指挥官利马是危地马拉监狱中最有权势的囚犯。在他服刑期间，他禁止敌对帮派在监狱中贩毒。和他一起被判刑的还有他的父亲，父亲是一名陆军上校，也是杀害主教赫拉尔迪的第三人。而就在主教被杀的两天前，他曾刊登报道指责危地马拉军方，称他们在军事冲突中践踏人权。

1 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

2 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

3 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

4 symbolic   

adj.象征性的，符号的，象征主义的

参考例句：

• It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
• The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。

5 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

6 pandemonium   

n.喧嚣，大混乱

参考例句：

• The whole lobby was a perfect pandemonium,and the din was terrific.整个门厅一片嘈杂，而且喧嚣刺耳。
• I had found Adlai unperturbed in the midst of pandemonium.我觉得艾德莱在一片大混乱中仍然镇定自若。

7 axe   

n.斧子；v.用斧头砍，削减

参考例句：

• Be careful with that sharp axe.那把斧子很锋利，你要当心。
• The edge of this axe has turned.这把斧子卷了刃了。

8 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

9 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。

10 libelous   

adj.败坏名誉的，诽谤性的

参考例句：

• No evidence has been found in the case so far and therefore it is probably a libelous suit.查无实据，恐怕是诬告。
• The book was libelous,so the publishers had to call in all copies of it from the bookshops.这是一本诽谤性的书，所以出版商必须把店里的书全收回去。

11 akin   

adj.同族的，类似的

参考例句：

• She painted flowers and birds pictures akin to those of earlier feminine painters.她画一些同早期女画家类似的花鸟画。
• Listening to his life story is akin to reading a good adventure novel.听他的人生故事犹如阅读一本精彩的冒险小说。

12 participation   

n.参与，参加，分享

参考例句：

• Some of the magic tricks called for audience participation.有些魔术要求有观众的参与。
• The scheme aims to encourage increased participation in sporting activities.这个方案旨在鼓励大众更多地参与体育活动。

13 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。

14 systematically   

adv.有系统地

参考例句：

• This government has systematically run down public services since it took office.这一屆政府自上台以来系统地削减了公共服务。
• The rainforest is being systematically destroyed.雨林正被系统地毀灭。

15 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

16 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

17 deterrent   

n.阻碍物，制止物；adj.威慑的，遏制的

参考例句：

• Large fines act as a deterrent to motorists.高额罚款是对开车的人的制约。
• I put a net over my strawberries as a deterrent to the birds.我在草莓上罩了网，免得鸟歇上去。

18 nays   

n.反对票，投反对票者( nay的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The tally was two ayes and three nays. 投票结果是两票赞成，三票反对。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The tally was three yeas and two nays, so the yeas have it. 投票结果是三票赞成两票反对，投赞成票者胜利。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

19 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

20 proceedings   

n.进程，过程，议程；诉讼(程序)；公报

参考例句：

• He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
• to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼

21 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

22 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

23 virtue   

n.德行，美德；贞操；优点；功效，效力

参考例句：

• He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
• You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。

24 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。

25 outspoken   

adj.直言无讳的，坦率的，坦白无隐的

参考例句：

• He was outspoken in his criticism.他在批评中直言不讳。
• She is an outspoken critic of the school system in this city.她是这座城市里学校制度的坦率的批评者。

26 bishop   

n.主教，（国际象棋）象

参考例句：

• He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
• Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。

27 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》