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The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned¹ Israel shelling of a UN school in Gaza where thousands of Palestinians were taking shelters as outrageous². Mr. Ban said nothing was more shameful³ than attacking sleeping children. Fifteen people were killed in the attack and many more wounded. From the UN, Nick Bryant reports. 

联合国秘书长潘基文强烈谴责以色列攻击加沙联合国学校，当时数千名巴勒斯坦人正在里面寻求庇护，称其行为惨无人道令人发指。潘基文表示没有任何事比攻击睡梦中的孩子更可耻。15人在此次袭击中丧生，多人受伤。尼克科比在联合国报道。

Ban Ki-moon called the attack reprehensible⁴, outrageous and unjustifiable, and demanded accountability and justice. More than 3,000 homeless people had took refuge at the school, and its precise location had been communicated to the Israeli military 17 times as recently as just a few hours before the attack. It's the second time in a week that a UN school housing refugees has been hit. The White House has also condemned the shelling and said it was extremely concerned that Palestinians who'd been called upon by the Israeli military to evacuate⁵ their homes were not safe in UN-designated shelters.

潘基文表示此次袭击是一次无耻无情无理应受到强烈谴责的袭击行为，并要求伸张责任和正义。至少3000名无家可归人士在联合国学校寻求避难，并且学校精确位置在以色列方面展开袭击前的几个小时就已经通知以色列军方17遍。这是一周之内联合国学校难民营第二次遭到攻击。白宫方面也表示强烈谴责以色列这一行为并表示非常担心在联合国学校寻求避难的巴勒斯坦人安危。

Gaza's Health Ministry⁶ says more than 100 Palestinians have been killed in a day of intense bombardment, 17 died in an Israeli strike near a market crowded with people after Israel declared a 4-hour humanitarian⁷ ceasefire. The Israeli military said the area was not included in the limited truce⁸.

加沙卫生部门表示至少100人在激烈轰炸中丧生，其中17人在以色列袭击的一家挤满群众的超市附近遇难，此次袭击发生在以色列宣布人道主义停火4个小时之后。以色列方面表示该超市附近区域不再停火范围之内。

Liberia has announced emergency measures to combat the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. All schools have been closed, non-essential government workers have been placed on 30-day compulsory⁹ leaves, and some communities have been placed in quarantine. More from Thomas Fessy. 

利比亚宣布对致命性病毒埃博拉采取紧急对抗措施。所有学校已经关闭，非必要政府工作人员被安排30天假期，一些社区被安排隔离。下面是Thomas Fessy带回的详细报道。

The government is trying to cut people's movement inside the country, hoping that infected people can be identified and treated. Security forces have been ordered to enforce these new measures. Meanwhile people have reportedly protested the construction of a new isolation¹⁰ unit forcing health workers to treat up to 20 patients at their homes. It is unclear how the government will manage to enforce its plan in a context of ongoing¹¹ suspicion and fear.

当地政府正试图减少国内人员流动，希望受感染人员能尽快得到确认并治疗。安全部队被授予命令执行这些新措施。同时报道称市民要求建立一个新的隔离区保障医护人员在家里可以治疗20例病例。目前尚不清楚政府将如何应对日益上升的怀疑和恐惧。

The G7 Group of industrialized nations has threatened more sanction against Russia if it doesn't reverse what they termed as its adverse¹² actions in Ukraine. Earlier Russia said the United States and the European Union would suffer consequences for imposing¹³ the latest sanctions, which it said was destructive and short-sighted. Here's Janet Barrie. 

七国工业集团称如果俄罗斯不扭转其在乌克兰的不正当行为的话将对其采取更多制裁措施。早些时候俄罗斯方面表示美国和欧洲联盟将会受到最新制裁影响。下面是珍妮特巴里为您报道。

The statement from the G7 leaders comes a day after Washington and the European Union announced increased sanctions on Moscow. It had expressed its concern about Russian actions which it says have undermined Ukraine's sovereignty and independence. The G7 leaders are demanding too a full-transparent investigation¹⁴ into the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, saying Moscow should use its influence with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine to help international investigators¹⁵ and monitors work in safety. Janet Barrie. 

七国集团领导人声明在华盛顿与欧盟在莫斯科宣布对俄罗斯增加制裁的第二天发出。声明表示对俄罗斯破坏乌克兰主权和独立行为表示担忧，并表示应全力调查马来西亚航班MH17事件，俄罗斯应利用其对乌克兰东部亲俄分裂分子影响保障国际调查小组和监察工作安全顺利进行。珍妮特巴里报道、

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A female suicide bomber¹⁶ has killed at least three people on a university campus in the northern Nigeria city of Kano. It's the latest in a wave of bombings in Kano that has been blamed on the Islamist group Boko Haram. 

一个女性自杀式人体袭击造成了尼日利亚北部城市卡诺当地一所学校至少三人死亡。这是由伊斯兰激进分子博科圣地组织影响下最新一次爆炸袭击。

Argentine officials and lawyers representing a group of hedge funds had resumed negotiations¹⁷ in a race against time to avoid a second Argentine default in 13 years. The hedge funds are demanding full repayment¹⁸ on 1.3 billion dollars worth of bonds they bought at discount after the country last defaulted in 2001. From Buenos Aires, Katy Watson reports. 

由阿根廷官员和律师组成代表团恢复对对冲基金谈判避免阿根廷在13年内再次违约。对冲基金要求全部偿还其在2001年购买贬值债券所造成的13亿美元损失。凯迪沃森在布宜诺斯艾利斯发来报道。

Time is running out, but the fact that both sides are still locked in talks has been taken as a positive sign by both Argentineans and financial markets. Argentina has always made clear it would not pay what President Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner calls vouchers¹⁹, funds she says that took advantage of Argentina's vows²⁰ to make a big profit. The country said that if it was to repay these funds, then other bond-holders who agreed to cut during restructuring may also demand full repayment, something Argentina could not afford.

时间已经不多了，实际上双方仍然在就此问题展开讨论无论对阿根廷方面或者对金融市场方面都是非常好的现象。阿根廷一直表明其不会支付总统Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner所谓的凭证和资金，她说对冲基金会利用阿根廷承诺获利一大笔基金。如果同意赔偿之后那其他折扣债券持有者也会要求全额赔偿，阿根廷是支付不起这项索赔的。

One of the most powerful men in Argentine Football, Julio Grondona, has died in Buenos Aires. He was eighty-two. Mr. Grondona was president of Argentina's Football Association for 35 years. He was well known for his bitter rows with Argentina's tempestuous²¹ football star Diego Maradona.

阿根廷足球重量级人物格洛多纳在布宜诺斯艾利斯去世享年82岁。格隆多纳曾任阿根廷足球协会主席35年，因与阿根廷球星马拉多纳跌宕起伏事件发展被广泛认识。

A deep-sea octopus²² has been observed keeping a record-breaking vigil of nearly 4.5 years over her eggs, the longest brooding time known for any animal. The devoted²³ eight-legged mother was first seen by ecologists in 2007 deep down in the Monterey Canyon²⁴ off California. A month later she laid her eggs there and began her long watch. The researchers say the unprecedented²⁵ behavior was an adaptation to the cold water at that depth, giving her babies plenty of time to develop. 

深海章鱼被观察到守护章鱼蛋长达4.5年，这一时间是任何已知动物中最长的时间记录。这只八条腿的章鱼妈妈2007年在加州蒙特利峡谷深处首次被生态学家发现，一个月后产蛋并开始了漫长的孵化过程。研究人员称这种前所未有的行为是对深水温度的适应行为，能够给予小章鱼宝宝足够的时间生长。

1 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。

2 outrageous   

adj.无理的，令人不能容忍的

参考例句：

• Her outrageous behaviour at the party offended everyone.她在聚会上的无礼行为触怒了每一个人。
• Charges for local telephone calls are particularly outrageous.本地电话资费贵得出奇。

3 shameful   

adj.可耻的，不道德的

参考例句：

• It is very shameful of him to show off.他向人炫耀自己，真不害臊。
• We must expose this shameful activity to the newspapers.我们一定要向报社揭露这一无耻行径。

4 reprehensible   

adj.该受责备的

参考例句：

• Lying is not seen as being morally reprehensible in any strong way.人们并不把撒谎当作一件应该大加谴责的事儿。
• It was reprehensible of him to be so disloyal.他如此不忠，应受谴责。

5 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

6 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。

7 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。

8 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。

9 compulsory   

n.强制的，必修的；规定的，义务的

参考例句：

• Is English a compulsory subject?英语是必修课吗？
• Compulsory schooling ends at sixteen.义务教育至16岁为止。

10 isolation   

n.隔离，孤立，分解，分离

参考例句：

• The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
• He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后，生活比较孤寂。

11 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

12 adverse   

adj.不利的；有害的；敌对的，不友好的

参考例句：

• He is adverse to going abroad.他反对出国。
• The improper use of medicine could lead to severe adverse reactions.用药不当会产生严重的不良反应。

13 imposing   

adj.使人难忘的，壮丽的，堂皇的，雄伟的

参考例句：

• The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
• He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。

14 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。

15 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 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。

17 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

18 repayment   

n.偿还，偿还款；报酬

参考例句：

• I am entitled to a repayment for the damaged goods.我有权利索取货物损坏赔偿金。
• The tax authorities have been harrying her for repayment.税务局一直在催她补交税款。

19 vouchers   

n.凭证( voucher的名词复数 )；证人；证件；收据

参考例句：

• These vouchers are redeemable against any future purchase. 这些优惠券将来购物均可使用。
• This time we were given free vouchers to spend the night in a nearby hotel. 这一次我们得到了在附近一家旅馆入住的免费券。 来自英语晨读30分（高二）

20 vows   

誓言( vow的名词复数 )； 郑重宣布，许愿

参考例句：

• Matrimonial vows are to show the faithfulness of the new couple. 婚誓体现了新婚夫妇对婚姻的忠诚。
• The nun took strait vows. 那位修女立下严格的誓愿。

21 tempestuous   

adj.狂暴的

参考例句：

• She burst into a tempestuous fit of anger.她勃然大怒。
• Dark and tempestuous was night.夜色深沉，狂风肆虐，暴雨倾盆。

22 octopus   

n.章鱼

参考例句：

• He experienced nausea after eating octopus.吃了章鱼后他感到恶心。
• One octopus has eight tentacles.一条章鱼有八根触角。

23 devoted   

adj.忠诚的，忠实的，热心的，献身于...的

参考例句：

• He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。

24 canyon   

n.峡谷，溪谷

参考例句：

• The Grand Canyon in the USA is 1900 metres deep.美国的大峡谷1900米深。
• The canyon is famous for producing echoes.这个峡谷以回声而闻名。

25 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。