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The United States has issued its most transient criticism yet to Israel's military operations in Gaza. The Pentagon said the conflict was killing¹ and wounding too many Palestinian civilians³. A spokesman, Colonel Steve Warren, said Israel had to do more to avoid civilian² causalities. 

美国对以色列在加沙的军事行为做了最短暂的批评，五角大楼方面表示冲突造成大量无辜巴勒斯坦人伤亡。五角大楼发言人史蒂夫沃伦上校表示以色列必须采取措施避免伤害群众。

The shelling of a UN facility that is housing innocent civilians who are fleeing violence is totally unacceptable and totally indefensible. And it is clear that we need our allies in Israel to do more to live up to the high standards they have set to themselves. 

对在联合国设施寻求避难的无辜群众来讲此次暴力冲突是难以接受的。现在情况非常明显，我们需要以色列盟友来帮助我们采取措施达到更高设定标准。

Earlier senior UN humanitarian⁴ officials made powerful pleas for help for Gaza during a briefing to the Security Council. One official Pierre Krähenbühl described the catastrophic human cost of the conflict, saying almost a quarter of a million displaced people were facing atrocities⁵. 

早些时候联合国人道主义高级官员在一个简短的新闻发布会上表示呼吁加强对加沙的帮助力度。一位官员在描述战争冲突所造成的人力成本时表示现在以百万人中有近四分之一的人口流离失所历经战火。

Speaking before the US criticism the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that with or without a ceasefire, Israel was determined⁶ to destroy tunnels built by Palestinian militants⁷ to infiltrate⁸ from Gaza. He said he will not accept any truce⁹ that did not allow Israel to complete its mission. 

在美国谴责以色列之前以色列总理内塔尼亚胡表示说不管停不停火以色列方面都下定决心摧毁巴勒斯坦激进分子建造链接加沙的网络隧道。内塔尼亚胡表示没有完成任务之前不会接受任何停火协议。

The World Health Organization is launching a 100-million-dollar initiative to combat the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa. It says hundreds more medical personnel are required to tackle what it calls an unprecedented¹⁰ situation. The WHO director general will meet presidents of affected¹¹ nations in Guinea on Friday to outline a coordinated¹² response. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf from Liberia, one of the worst-hit countries, told the BBC the Ebola outbreak was catastrophic and more help was needed. 

世界卫生组织正在展开一项价值一亿美元的援助计划应对西非爆发的致命性病毒埃博拉，截止到目前为止已造成至少700人死亡。并表示称数百名医务人员正面对着前所未有的疫情。世界卫生组织领导人将于周五在几内亚会见病情发生国家领导人，共同探讨解决方案。利比亚总统埃伦约翰逊作为疫情最严重国家领导人告诉BBC记者说埃博拉疫情严重具有毁灭性，我们需要更多的帮助。

We need more in protective gear, we need more in the preventive things like the soaps and the chlorine, and all that goods of ease attracting, but more importantly, technical help. 

我们需要更多防护装备，需要预防工具，例如肥皂和氯，还有任何缓解紧张气氛的东西，但是尤为重要的是，我们需要技术上的帮助。

Dutch and Australian forensic¹³ experts have for the first time this week reached the crash site for the downed Malaysian airliner¹⁴ in eastern Ukraine. The wreckage¹⁵ is scattered¹⁶ over a wide area controlled by pro-Russian rebels who've been accused of shooting the plane down. Previous attempts had to be abandoned because of a fighting nearby. The head of the recovery mission, uh, Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg said he is now cautiously optimistic about gaining uncontested access. 

荷兰和澳大利亚法医专家本周首次到达乌克兰东部马来西亚航班失事地点进行调查。飞机残骸散落广大范围已经被亲俄叛军控制起来，其曾被控告为击落飞机的幕后黑手。之前因为冲突一直没有展开调查。调查小组组长Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg说他现在面对该区域调查工作采取谨慎乐观态度面对。

The security situation is still very unstable¹⁷, that's why we are not absolutely sure if we can reach the crash site with the whole team of experts in the short future. But we are more hopeful than we were yesterday. Tomorrow we will try once again to reach the crash area. If we succeeded, the experts will carry out the limited searches at a few locations in that area.

安全局势仍不稳定，这也就是我们为什么要采取谨慎态度进入飞机失事地点的原因，这关系到整个调查团队工作进程。但是今天的工作让我们比昨天更加有信心，明天我们将再一次试着接近这一区域。如果我们成功了，专家小组将会对有限的几个区域进行搜索。

You are listening to World News from the BBC. 

您现在收听的是BBC世界新闻。

A series of huge gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city Kaohsiung have killed 15 people and injured more than 200 others. Pictures posted on social media show a huge ball of flame from blast so powerful they overturned cars and knocked down trees. 

在台湾高雄发生了一系列天然气爆炸事件，造成15人死亡至少200人受伤。在社会媒体上发布的图片可以看到巨大的火球吞没了数量汽车击倒了路边的大树。

In a reversal of a previous denial, the director of the CIA John Brennan has apologized to the US Senate Intelligence Committee over accusations¹⁸ that his agents had spied on computers used by Committee members. In March, Mr. Brennan had insisted that nothing was further from the truth. 

大逆转来了，美国中央情报局局长约翰布伦南为其员工监视委员会成员电脑一事向美国参议院情报委员会表示道歉。三月份时，布伦南坚持表示员工没有监视委员会成员电脑。

South Korea activists¹⁹ have said they would continue their campaign of reaching out to people in North Korea by using helium balloons to send their favorite chocolate and marshmallow snacks across the border. Choco-pies were offered as perks²⁰ to North Koreans working in the Joint²¹ Industrial Zone at Kaesong. But the communist authorities ordered factories owners to stop handing them out, branding them a symbol of capitalism²². 

韩国表示将继续用热气球对朝鲜传送巧克力和软糖。巧克力派作为津贴补给给在北朝鲜开成工业区的员工。但是共产党当局表示命令工厂主停止转交行为，并将这一举措形容为资本主义的象征。

1 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。

2 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

3 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

4 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。

5 atrocities   

n.邪恶，暴行( atrocity的名词复数 )；滔天大罪

参考例句：

• They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities. 他们犯有最野蛮、最灭绝人性的残暴罪行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The enemy's atrocities made one boil with anger. 敌人的暴行令人发指。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 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。

7 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。

8 infiltrate   

vt./vi.渗入，透过；浸润

参考例句：

• The teacher tried to infiltrate her ideas into the children's minds.老师设法把她的思想渗透到孩子们的心中。
• It can infiltrate as much as 100 kilometers into enemy territory at night.可以在夜间深入敌领土100千米。

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 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。

11 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。

12 coordinated   

adj.协调的

参考例句：

• The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
• The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

13 forensic   

adj.法庭的，雄辩的

参考例句：

• The report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence.该报告包括他对法庭证据的诠释。
• The judge concluded the proceeding on 10:30 Am after one hour of forensic debate.经过近一个小时的法庭辩论后，法官于10时30分宣布休庭。

14 airliner   

n.客机，班机

参考例句：

• The pilot landed the airliner safely.驾驶员使客机安全着陆。
• The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.旅客们被引导走过跑道去上飞机。

15 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

16 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

17 unstable   

adj.不稳定的，易变的

参考例句：

• This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实，装不了这么多书。
• The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。

18 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
• He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。

19 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

20 perks   

额外津贴，附带福利，外快( perk的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Perks offered by the firm include a car and free health insurance. 公司给予的额外待遇包括一辆汽车和免费健康保险。
• Are there any perks that go with your job? 你的工作有什么津贴吗？

21 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

22 capitalism   

n.资本主义

参考例句：

• The essence of his argument is that capitalism cannot succeed.他的论点的核心是资本主义不能成功。
• Capitalism began to develop in Russia in the 19th century.十九世纪资本主义在俄国开始发展。