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The US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned that an election planned by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine will be unlawful and that Moscow will violate international agreements if it recognizes?the?results. President Poroshenko of Ukraine said the polls will threaten the peace talks with the rebels. Dina Newman?reports. “Despite the warnings from the US Secretary of State John Kerry and President Poroshenko of Ukraine, Russia insists it will recognize the results of the separatists' elections in Donetsk and Lugansk regions. This threatens to undermine the fragile ceasefire agreement signed last September. Armed rebels in eastern Ukraine say the polls will give them legitimacy¹ and will allow them to negotiate with Kiev as equals.”

美国国务卿约翰克里警告称由乌克兰东部亲俄分裂主义分子组织的选举计划是不合法的，莫斯科如果承认其选举结果的话将会违反国际协议。乌克兰总统波罗申科说此投票选举将会威胁到乌克兰与叛军的和平谈判。Dina Newman发回报道。

没有顾忌美国国务卿克里和乌克兰总统波罗申科的警告，俄罗斯坚持认同乌克兰叛军在顿涅茨克和卢甘斯克地区的投票结果。这种行为将摧毁去年九月签署的停火协议。乌克兰东部武装分子称投票选举将赋予他们存在的合法性，并允许他们与基辅平等谈判。

Dutch investigators² are to ask Russia for evidence including information about a Ukrainian fighter jet activity relating to the crash of the Malaysian passenger jet MH17 in eastern Ukraine in July. Moscow says it has radar³ data showing a Ukrainian fighter jet in the vicinity of the airliner⁴.

荷兰研究人员向俄罗斯寻求证据，包括乌克兰战斗机七月份在马来西亚客机坠毁地区乌克兰东部的活动信息。莫斯科表示其雷达数据显示一架乌克兰喷气式战斗机在该航班航线附近活动。

About 150 fighters from Iraqi Kurdistan are on their way to join their fellow Kurds in the battle against Islamic State militants⁵ in Syria. After leaving their bases in Iraq, the Peshmerga fighters will travel through Turkey and then cross into Syria to defend the town of Kobani where there has been further shelling today. Our reporter Jihad Gao is on the Turkey-Syria border. “Coalition fighter jets circling over the city pounded IS militants' position numbers of times, also the news of Kurdish Peshmerga from Iraqi Kurdistan crossing the border and coming to help the defenders⁶ of the city received by Kurdish community here with cheers. These groups are 150 equipped with heavy weapons are expected to arrive tonight, and most likely they cross the border into Kobani by the morning.”

来自伊拉克库尔德斯坦地区大约150名士兵加入到叙利亚库尔德同胞对抗伊斯兰恐怖组织的队伍中。离开伊拉克基地之后，库尔德自由斗士将会穿过土耳其地区，进入叙利亚保卫今天收到严重攻击的Kobani城镇。本台记者Jihad Gao从土耳其-叙利亚边境发回报道。

联盟战斗机盘旋在伊斯兰武装据点数次发起进攻，同时受到了来自伊拉克库尔德斯坦库尔德自由斗士穿越国界帮助库尔德同胞保卫家园的消息。这支队伍的150名战士都配备了重型武器，预计今晚到达叙利亚，早晨的时候可能抵达Kobani。

The authorities in Egypt are reportedly planning to establish a buffer⁷ zone along its border with Gaza to prevent any smuggling⁸ of weapons. Allan Johnston reports. “There are reports that families living along the Egyptian side of the frontier have been ordered to evacuate⁹ their homes; they'll be demolished¹⁰ then trenches¹¹ will be dug in an effort to prevent smugglers running tunnels under the border from Gaza into Egypt. This comes just days after an attack by militants in northern Sinai killed more than 30 Egyptian soldiers. And a local media has suggested that the Islamist Hamas Movement in Gaza is supporting fighters operating in Egyptian territory. Hamas denies this.”

埃及当局报道称计划在其与加沙边境建立一个缓冲带防止武器走私。Allan Johnston发回报道。

有报道称生活在埃及另一边的居民要求撤离他们的家园，他们的家园将会被拆除，然后用来挖战壕来努力防止通过地下隧道从加沙地带走私武器到埃及地区。这一消息发布在西奈北部袭击事件发生后的几天，这一事件造成超过30名士兵死亡。当地一家媒体暗示称，加沙地区伊斯兰哈马斯武装分子对埃及境内武装分子提供支持。哈马斯方面否认了这一报道。

President Francois Hollande of France has called for an end to violent protests which has followed the death of a young environmentalist in the south of the country. He said an investigation¹² will reveal the truth. The prosecutor¹³ investigating the death said traces of an explosive used in police grenades were found on Remy Fraser's clothing.

法国总统弗朗索瓦奥朗德呼吁停止暴力抗议。此抗议发生在一名年轻环保主义者死亡之后。他说调查将揭示真相。检察官在对死者进行检查之后称在死者雷米弗雷泽的衣服上发现了警察手雷炸弹的痕迹。

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President Obama has praised American health workers fighting Ebola in West Africa saying they should be applauded, thanked and supported. The authorities in some US states have come under criticism for their decision automatically to quarantine health workers returning from West Africa because it may discourage others from volunteering. The president said US efforts in Liberia, the worst-affected¹⁴ country, were starting to bear fruit and he insisted that Ebola was a problem that would get fixed¹⁵. “This disease can be contained, it will be defeated. Progress is possible. But we're gonna have to stay vigilant¹⁶, and we've gotta make sure that we are working together. We have to keep leading the global response - Americas not look like it to shine away, because other people are watching what we do.”?

奥巴马总统赞扬了美国医护人员在西非对抗埃博拉疫情的举动，他说他们应该得到掌声，感谢和支持。美国当地一些州政府已经为对从西非回国人员进行强制检疫一事受到了批评。因为这种行为可能打消医护人员前往西非国家抗击疫情的决心。总统说美国在利比亚，这个受灾最严重的国家的努力工作已经开始开花结果，并坚持认为，埃博拉病毒在得到完全祛除之前仍是一个重要问题。

这种疾病是可以得到控制的，它终将被打败。我们有可能取得战争的胜利，但是我们仍要保持警惕，我们必须确保我们共同努力工作。我们需要保持全球领导地位，美国人不会躲在阴暗里了，因为全世界的人民都在看着我们。

Sierra Leone has condemned¹⁷ the decision by Australia to stop issuing visas to people from West African countries affected by Ebola. Sierra Leone's information minister Alpha Kanu said the measure was draconian¹⁸ and discriminatory.?

塞拉利昂谴责澳大利亚停止对受埃博拉疫情影响国家人民发放签证的决定。塞拉利昂信息部长Alpha Kanu说这种措施是非常苛刻的，同时也是一种歧视。

A major opposition¹⁹ leader in Burkina Faso Zefrin Jabbered²⁰ says political change is needed as protests in the country grow. Huge crowds protested on Tuesday against the proposed constitutional amendment²¹ that would allow President Blaise Compaore to stand for another five-year term. The security forces used tear gas against some of the demonstrators. Mr. Jabbered said it was time for change. “Youth unemployment is a clearly grave problem and this morning it's what here, you will see about it only young people with no job were demonstrating. So the country needs some big and deep reforms to give an equal opportunity and chance to everybody but you can't do it until a political change.”?

布基纳法索一个主要反对派领导人Zefrin Jabbered称为了国家的发展，新的政治改革是必须的。在周三庞大的人群走上街头抗议宪法修正案，因为那样的话总统布莱斯孔波雷将会接任下一任五年任期总统。安全部队使用推泪弹驱散了示威者。Jabbered说是时候进行改革了。

大量青年失业是一个非常严峻的问题，今天早晨你看到的，这些人，都是没有工作的年轻人在参加游行示威。所以现在国家需要进行彻底改革给予每个人平等的机会，但是所有这一切如果没有改革的话是完不成的。

A funeral service has been held for the Canadian soldier who was shot dead last week by a gunman who is believed to have been inspired by the Islamic State group. Corporal Nathan Cirillo's coffin²² was carried through the streets of his hometown in Ontario. Thousands of mourners lined the route. 

上周被疑似伊斯兰恐怖组织成员枪击身亡的加拿大士兵举办了葬礼。Corporal Nathan Cirillo的灵柩队伍在他的家乡安大略省街道上缓缓前行。数千名群众参加了葬礼。

1 legitimacy   

n.合法，正当

参考例句：

• The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
• Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。

2 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》

3 radar   

n.雷达，无线电探测器

参考例句：

• They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。
• Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。

4 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。

5 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。

6 defenders   

n.防御者( defender的名词复数 )；守卫者；保护者；辩护者

参考例句：

• The defenders were outnumbered and had to give in. 抵抗者寡不敌众，只能投降。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• After hard fighting,the defenders were still masters of the city. 守军经过奋战仍然控制着城市。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 buffer   

n.起缓冲作用的人(或物)，缓冲器；vt.缓冲

参考例句：

• A little money can be a useful buffer in time of need.在急需时，很少一点钱就能解燃眉之急。
• Romantic love will buffer you against life's hardships.浪漫的爱会减轻生活的艰辛。

8 smuggling   

n.走私

参考例句：

• Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
• The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

9 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。

10 demolished   

v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 )；推翻；拆毁（尤指大建筑物）；吃光

参考例句：

• The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
• They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。

11 trenches   

深沟，地沟( trench的名词复数 )； 战壕

参考例句：

• life in the trenches 第一次世界大战期间的战壕生活
• The troops stormed the enemy's trenches and fanned out across the fields. 部队猛攻敌人的战壕，并在田野上呈扇形散开。

12 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。

13 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

14 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。

15 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

16 vigilant   

adj.警觉的，警戒的，警惕的

参考例句：

• He has to learn how to remain vigilant through these long nights.他得学会如何在这漫长的黑夜里保持警觉。
• The dog kept a vigilant guard over the house.这只狗警醒地守护着这所房屋。

17 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。

18 draconian   

adj.严苛的；苛刻的；严酷的；龙一样的

参考例句：

• You can't expect the people to obey such draconian regulations.你不能指望人民服从如此严苛的规定。
• The city needs a draconian way of dealing with robbers.这个城市需要一个严苛的办法来对付强盗。

19 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。

20 jabbered   

v.急切而含混不清地说( jabber的过去式和过去分词 )；急促兴奋地说话

参考例句：

• She jabbered away, trying to distract his attention. 她喋喋不休，想分散他的注意力。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The politician jabbered away about matters of which he has no knowledge. 那个政客不知所云地侈谈自己一无所知的事情。 来自辞典例句

21 amendment   

n.改正，修正，改善，修正案

参考例句：

• The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
• The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。

22 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。