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The Spanish government is to hold a special cabinet meeting within the next hours to begin imposing¹ central control over the region of Catalonia. The Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he had agreed with Spanish opposition² party on measures aimed at restoring the rule of law. Catalonia's devolved government says it has mandate³ to declare independence after a referendum earlier this month.

数小时后，西班牙政府将召开特别内阁会议，讨论加强对加泰罗尼亚地区的中央控制。西班牙首相霍伊表示，在恢复法律准则方面，已经与西班牙反对党达成一致。加泰罗尼亚地方政府表示，在本月初举行公投后，有权宣布独立。

Human rights campaigners and Zimbabwe's political opposition have condemned⁴ the decision by the World Health Organization to appoint president Robert Mugabe as a goodwill⁵ ambassador. Human rights watch said that given Mr. Mugabe's record on human rights, it was embarrassment⁶ to give him such role. The opposition party describes the move as "Laughable".

世界卫生组织任命津巴布韦总统罗伯特·穆加比为亲善大使，人权活动人士以及津巴布韦的反对党对此表示谴责。人权观察表示，鉴于穆加比在人权方面的记录，授予他这样的角色是很尴尬的。反对党称此举措“真可笑”。

The Egyptian authorities say more than 50 members of the security force have been killed in an ambush⁷ by the Islamic militants⁸. The interior ministry⁹ said that the jihadists set fire on the officers during a raid near the al-Bahriya base.

埃及当局表示，在对伏击IS武装分子的过程中，50多名安全部队成员丧生。内政部表示，al-Bahriya基地附近的一次突袭行动中，圣战分子向这些安全部队成员纵火。

United States has urged the Iraqi government to limit the deployment¹⁰ of troops in the north of the country to prevent unnecessary clashes with Kurdish forces. On Friday, Iraqi federal troops engaged in several hours fighting with Kurdish Peshmerga forces to take control of the last remaining district of Keokuk province.

美国敦促伊拉克政府限制在该国北部部署军队，避免与库尔德武装发生不必要的冲突。周五，周五，伊拉克联邦军队与库尔德斯坦自由战士进行了数小时的战斗，控制了最后一个石油储量丰富的地区。

The former White House adviser¹¹ Steve Bannon has denounced George.W.Bush after the former president made a speech, implicitly¹² criticizing Donald Trump¹³. Mr.Bannon said Mr.Bush had no idea what he was talking about, just like when he was in office. On Friday, Mr.Bush, without mentioning names, spoke¹⁴ against populist nationalism, espoused¹⁵ by president Trump and his former top strategists.

乔治·布什发表讲话暗示批评唐纳德·特朗普，之后白宫前顾问史蒂文·班农谴责了这位前总统。班农表示，布什根本不知道自己在说什么，就跟其在职时一样。周五，布什暗暗讽刺了特朗普总统和他的前高级战略家们所支持的民粹民族主义。

And Forensic¹⁶ experts investigating the death, more than 4 decades ago, of Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, say he didn't die of pro-static cancer as previously¹⁷ thought, and could be poisoned. Neruda died shortly after the military coup¹⁸ led by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973.

调查智利左翼诗人巴勃罗·聂鲁达死亡的法医专家表示，与之前的推断不同，他并不是死于前列腺癌，而可能是被毒死的。巴勃罗·聂鲁达死于1973年，奥古斯托·皮诺切特将军将军军事政变后，不到两周，巴勃罗·聂鲁达死亡。

1 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。

2 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。

3 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

4 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。

5 goodwill   

n.善意，亲善，信誉，声誉

参考例句：

• His heart is full of goodwill to all men.他心里对所有人都充满着爱心。
• We paid ￡10,000 for the shop,and ￡2000 for its goodwill.我们用一万英镑买下了这家商店，两千英镑买下了它的信誉。

6 embarrassment   

n.尴尬；使人为难的人(事物)；障碍；窘迫

参考例句：

• She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
• Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。

7 ambush   

n.埋伏(地点)；伏兵；v.埋伏；伏击

参考例句：

• Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
• Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。

8 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。

9 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。

10 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。

11 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

12 implicitly   

adv. 含蓄地, 暗中地, 毫不保留地

参考例句：

• Many verbs and many words of other kinds are implicitly causal. 许多动词和许多其他类词都蕴涵着因果关系。
• I can trust Mr. Somerville implicitly, I suppose? 我想，我可以毫无保留地信任萨莫维尔先生吧？

13 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。

14 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

15 espoused   

v.（决定）支持，拥护（目标、主张等）( espouse的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• They espoused the notion of equal opportunity for all in education. 他们赞同在教育方面人人机会均等的观念。
• The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me. 她所支持的意见令我难以理解。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 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。

17 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

18 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。