英语听力精选进阶版 8303

The British Prime Minister David Cameron has visited Scotland for the last time before voters there cast their ballots¹ in Thursday's referendum on independence. In a passionate³ speech, Mr. Cameron appealed to Scots not to leave the United Kingdom, saying it was not just a vote for them but for their children, grandchildren and the generations beyond. Norman Smith reports from Aberdeen.

英国首相戴维卡梅伦在周四苏格兰公投之前对苏格兰进行了之后一次访问。在激情澎湃的演讲中卡梅伦呼吁苏格兰不要脱离英国独立，并说这并不仅仅是为自己投票而且是为了孩子，孩子的孩子和后代而投票。Norman Smith从阿伯丁发回报道。

David Cameron came to Aberdeen today to issue one last emotional appeal to the people of Scotland. The breakup of the United Kingdom, he said, would mark the end of the greatest example of democracy the world has ever seen. He's plead voters do not think there can be any way back from a vote for independence. This is a final irrevocable step with ramifications⁴ for generations to come. The Prime Minister's message: Do not use this referendum as a protest vote; governments and policies may come and go, this is forever.?

卡梅伦今天前往阿伯丁为苏格兰人民做最后一次演讲。他说，英国的分裂将代表着世界上最大的民主国家的结束。他劝说投票者称一旦苏格兰独立成功的话就不会有改变的可能。这对于后代来讲将会是一个不可逆的结果。首相卡梅伦发出的信号是，不要利用此次公投作为对抗英国政府的手段，政府和政策可能随时发生变化，但是英国政府是不会发生改变的。

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond campaigning for independence argued that a Yes vote would boost the Scottish economy.?

苏格兰首席大臣亚历克斯正在为独立策划投票活动，认为苏格兰独立将会促进苏格兰经济发展。。

A murderer and rapist who is serving a life sentence in Belgium will be allowed to have doctors end his life, following a groundbreaking ruling. He'd argued that he had no prospect⁵ to release since he could not overcome his violent sexual impulses and wanted to exercise his right to medically assisted suicide. From Brussels, Piers⁶ Scholfield.?

一个在比利时服刑犯有杀人罪和强奸罪名的犯罪分子被允许医生协助结束生命，这是一次具有突破性的判决。他认为自己无法控制自己性兴奋行为也不会被释放，所以想要行使权力结束生命。Piers Scholfield从布鲁塞尔发回报道。

Frank Van Den² Bleeken will soon be transferred to a hospital where doctors will end his life. His lawyer told the BBC that precisely⁷ where and when this would happen was unclear and would be decided⁸ by doctors. He will go to hospital 48 hours before the procedure to allow him time to say goodbye to his family. Convicted of multiple rapes⁹ and murder in the 1980s, the courts committed Mr. Van Den Bleeken to a psychiatric institution. In a television interview last year, he said a lack of suitable treatment meant his could not control his violent sexual urges and he would continue to be a danger to society.?

Frank Van Den Bleeken不久将会被转移到医院，在那里医生将会结束他的生命。他的律师告诉BBC记者目前还不清楚医生什么时候在哪对他采取措施，一切由医生决定。他将在去医院之前被赋予48小时来与家人告别。他在20世纪80年代犯有多次强奸罪名和谋杀罪名，法院提交Frank Van Den Bleeken到一家精神病院。在去年一次电视采访中，他说因缺少治疗他已经不能控制暴力性冲动，他将继续成为社会的危险分子。

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has warned that the weakness of the Euro Zone remains¹⁰ a major concern. The OECD growth forecast for the region is now less than 1% for this year. Here is Andrew Walker.?

经济合作与发展组织曾警告欧元区弱点仍然是一个主要问题。该地区OECD的经济增长预测目前少于1%。下面是 Andrew Walker发回的报道。

The OECD described slow growth in the Euro Zone is the most worrying feature of its forecast. It says the recovery has been disappointing, notably¹¹ in the larger countries, Germany, France and Italy. The OECD says the Euro Zone could face prolonged stagnation¹². It calls for the European Central Bank to do more to stimulate¹³ demand for goods and services including the policy called quantitative¹⁴ easing, creating new money to buy financial assets. The OECD says growth in India is likely to strengthen while Brazil is expected to make only a slow recovery from recession.

OECD组织称欧元区缓慢的增长速度是最令人担忧的问题，并表示经济的恢复发展一直令人不满意，尤其是在一些较大的国家里，像德国，法国和意大利。OECD组织称欧元区将面临长期停滞的可能。并向欧洲央行呼吁采取措施刺激商品需求和服务，包括定量宽松政策，创造新资金购买金融资产。OECD表示印度方面的经济增长可能会加强，同时巴西预计仅仅从经济复苏中缓慢发展。

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A court in Egypt has sentenced the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood¹⁵ Muhammad Badie to life imprisonment¹⁶ along with 14 other defendants¹⁷. Mr. Badie was charged with murder and inciting¹⁸ violence in Giza in 2013. He is already serving a life sentence after being convicted over violent protests against the overthrow¹⁹ of the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

埃及法院宣布判决穆斯林兄弟会精神领袖Muhammad Badie和其他14名被告无期徒刑。Badie 被指在2013年在吉萨谋杀和煽动暴力。他因暴力抵抗伊斯兰总统Mohamed Morsi被判终身监禁。

Several hundred migrants from Africa and the Middle East who were trying to reach Europe are feared to have died over the past few days. The International Organization for Migration²⁰ says up to 500 people trying to reach Italy are believed to have lost their lives when their boat sank near Malta on Thursday. Our correspondent Caroline Holly²¹ reports.

数百名从非洲和中东地区试图到达欧洲土地的移民恐怕已经在过去的几天里死亡。国际移民组织称前往意大利的多达500人的移民群体途中船只在周四行驶到马耳他附近时沉船，认为移民遇难。。

Details of exactly what happened in the middle of the Mediterranean²² last week is sketchy²³. But two Palestinian survivors²⁴ said they were among a group of around 500 migrants who'd set sail from the Egyptian port of Damietta heading for Italy. They said that a row broke out after traffickers tried to force them onto a smaller, less stable boat and that their vessel²⁵ had then been deliberately²⁶ rammed²⁷. One of the survivors said the vast majority of those on board drowned, including a young child who'd been clinging with him to a lifebuoy. The dead migrants are said to include Palestinians, Egyptians and Syrians.

具体发生在地中海中部的细节问题没有详细报道。但是两名巴勒斯坦幸存者称他们是一群大约有500名移民的团队，从埃及杜姆亚特港出发前往意大利。他们说沉船发生时船贩子试图赶他们到另一只又小又不安全的船只上去，然后他们与船贩子发生了争吵，他们的船只受到了故意撞击。一名幸存者称船上大多数人都被淹死了，包括一名有救生圈的儿童。死亡移民包括巴勒斯坦人，埃及人和叙利亚人。

The United Nations has relocated several hundreds of its peacekeepers in Syria to the sector²⁸ of the Golan Heights controlled by Israel. The move comes two weeks after fighters from the al-Nusra Front, a Syrian rebel group affiliated²⁹ with al-Quada, kidnapped more than 40 members of the UN force. They were released last week.?

联合国已经撤回数百支在叙利亚以色列控制地区戈兰高地地区维和部队。这一行动发生在两周前与al-Nusra前线士兵交锋之后，这是一个叙利亚反叛组织隶属于基地组织，曾绑架了维和部队40多名人员。被绑架人质在上周被释放。

The Bangladesh cabinet has proposed measures lowering the marriageable age for young men and women, but significantly toughing the penalty for violating the limits. Observers say the measures are in at combating child marriage which is widespread in rural Bangladesh.?

孟加拉国内阁已经提出降低男女结婚年龄，但是将严重惩罚违反限制者。观察家称此举旨在打击孟加拉农村普遍流行的儿童婚姻。

1 ballots   

n.投票表决( ballot的名词复数 )；选举；选票；投票总数v.（使）投票表决( ballot的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 den   

n.兽穴；秘密地方；安静的小房间，私室

参考例句：

• There is a big fox den on the back hill.后山有一个很大的狐狸窝。
• The only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den.不入虎穴焉得虎子。

3 passionate   

adj.热情的，热烈的，激昂的，易动情的，易怒的，性情暴躁的

参考例句：

• He is said to be the most passionate man.据说他是最有激情的人。
• He is very passionate about the project.他对那个项目非常热心。

4 ramifications   

n.结果，后果( ramification的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• These changes are bound to have widespread social ramifications. 这些变化注定会造成许多难以预料的社会后果。
• What are the ramifications of our decision to join the union? 我们决定加入工会会引起哪些后果呢？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 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。

6 piers   

n.水上平台( pier的名词复数 )；（常设有娱乐场所的）突堤；柱子；墙墩

参考例句：

• Most road bridges have piers rising out of the vally. 很多公路桥的桥墩是从河谷里建造起来的。 来自辞典例句
• At these piers coasters and landing-craft would be able to discharge at all states of tide. 沿岸航行的海船和登陆艇，不论潮汐如何涨落，都能在这种码头上卸载。 来自辞典例句

7 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

8 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。

9 rapes   

n.芸苔( rape的名词复数 )；强奸罪；强奸案；肆意损坏v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的第三人称单数 )；强奸

参考例句：

• The man who had committed several rapes was arrested. 那个犯了多起强奸案的男人被抓起来了。 来自辞典例句
• The incidence of reported rapes rose 0.8 percent. 美国联邦调查局还发布了两份特别报告。 来自互联网

10 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

11 notably   

adv.值得注意地，显著地，尤其地，特别地

参考例句：

• Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席，特别是连班长也没来。
• A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小，一头银发，每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。

12 stagnation   

n. 停滞

参考例句：

• Poor economic policies led to a long period of stagnation and decline. 糟糕的经济政策道致了长时间的经济萧条和下滑。
• Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative. 运动是绝对的，而静止是相对的。

13 stimulate   

vt.刺激，使兴奋；激励，使…振奋

参考例句：

• Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
• Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。

14 quantitative   

adj.数量的，定量的

参考例句：

• He said it was only a quantitative difference.他说这仅仅是数量上的差别。
• We need to do some quantitative analysis of the drugs.我们对药物要进行定量分析。

15 brotherhood   

n.兄弟般的关系，手中情谊

参考例句：

• They broke up the brotherhood.他们断绝了兄弟关系。
• They live and work together in complete equality and brotherhood.他们完全平等和兄弟般地在一起生活和工作。

16 imprisonment   

n.关押，监禁，坐牢

参考例句：

• His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
• He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。

17 defendants   

被告( defendant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The courts heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession. 法官审判时发现6位被告人曾被迫承认罪行。
• As in courts, the defendants are represented by legal counsel. 与法院相同，被告有辩护律师作为代表。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

18 inciting   

刺激的，煽动的

参考例句：

• What are you up to inciting mutiny and insubordination? 你们干吗在这里煽动骚动的叛乱呀。
• He was charged with inciting people to rebel. 他被控煽动民众起来叛乱。

19 overthrow   

v.推翻，打倒，颠覆；n.推翻，瓦解，颠覆

参考例句：

• After the overthrow of the government,the country was in chaos.政府被推翻后，这个国家处于混乱中。
• The overthrow of his plans left him much discouraged.他的计划的失败使得他很气馁。

20 migration   

n.迁移，移居，（鸟类等的）迁徙

参考例句：

• Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
• He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。

21 holly   

n.[植]冬青属灌木

参考例句：

• I recently acquired some wood from a holly tree.最近我从一棵冬青树上弄了些木料。
• People often decorate their houses with holly at Christmas.人们总是在圣诞节时用冬青来装饰房屋。

22 Mediterranean   

adj.地中海的；地中海沿岸的

参考例句：

• The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
• Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。

23 sketchy   

adj.写生的，写生风格的，概略的

参考例句：

• The material he supplied is too sketchy.他提供的材料过于简略。
• Details of what actually happened are still sketchy.对于已发生事实的详细情况知道的仍然有限。

24 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

25 vessel   

n.船舶；容器，器皿；管，导管，血管

参考例句：

• The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
• You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。

26 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

27 rammed   

v.夯实（土等）( ram的过去式和过去分词 )；猛撞；猛压；反复灌输

参考例句：

• Two passengers were injured when their taxi was rammed from behind by a bus. 公共汽车从后面撞来，出租车上的两位乘客受了伤。
• I rammed down the earth around the newly-planted tree. 我将新栽的树周围的土捣硬。 来自《简明英汉词典》

28 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

29 affiliated   

adj. 附属的, 有关连的

参考例句：

• The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。
• All affiliated members can vote. 所有隶属成员都有投票权。