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The White House has accused Russia of undermining the sovereignty and security of countries worldwide with its nerve agent attack on a former spy in an English city. In a forthright¹ statement staunchly backing Britain, the US called it part of a pattern of subversive² behavior by Moscow. The British government is significantly boosting its funding for the military laboratory whose scientists helped identify the rare nerve agent used in the attack. It's modernizing³ its defense⁴ program with the new chemical weapons defense center.

美国政府指责俄罗斯通过在英国某城市里对一名前特工进行神经毒剂攻击来破坏全球国家的主权与安全。在一则坚定支持英国的声明中，美国直截了当地称此次攻击是俄罗斯政府破坏性行为模式的部分举动。英国政府正在对其军事实验室进行大力的资金供给，让该实验室的科学家们助力确认袭击中所使用的稀有神经毒剂。此外，英国还通过其新型化学武器防御中心来使其国防项目实现现代化。

President Trump⁵ has picked a TV commentator⁶ Larry Kudlow as his new economic advisor⁷. The former investment banker replaces Gary Cohn, who resigned last week over new steel and alumni tariffs⁸.

特朗普总统选电视评论员拉里·库德洛为新一任经济顾问。拉里是前投资银行家，他将代替加里·科恩的职位。而后者在上周因与新钢铁和铝制品关税有关的问题而卸任。

Researchers in the US say they have found particles of plastic in some of the most popular brands of bottled water in the largest study of its kind. Those companies whose brands are tested told the BBC they stood by the safety of their products.

美国研究人员称其发现塑料粒子在很多流行的瓶装水品牌中都有存在，这是同类研究中最大规模的一次。这些接受测试的品牌公司在接受BBC采访时表示，他们认为自己的产品是安全的。

A military helicopter has crashed in Senegal killing⁹ six of the twenty people on board. The aircraft went down in the mangrove¹⁰ forest in the coastal¹¹ area in the southwest.

塞内加尔一架军用飞机坠机，导致机上20人中有6人死亡。这架飞机坠落到了塞内加尔西南部沿海地区的一片红树林中。

A prison riot in Bolivia has ended with seven inmates¹² dead. Riot police stormed the notoriously overcrowded prison in the eastern city of Santa Cruz.

玻利维亚的一起监狱暴乱事件导致7名犯人死亡。防暴警察猛烈攻占了东部城市圣克鲁斯[Santa Cruz]的这座因过于拥挤而臭名昭著的监狱。

Slovenia’s Prime Minister Miro Cerar has stepped down. It follows decision by the Supreme¹³ Court to annul¹⁴ a referendum result approving a key government railway project because the government campaign has been one-sided.

斯洛文尼亚总理米罗·采拉尔已卸任。在此之前，最高法院判定之前一次公投的结果无效，这次公投批准了一项重大政府铁路项目，理由是政府官员全都一边倒。

And a woman in the American state of Minnesota who killed her boyfriend in a YouTube video prank¹⁵ that went wrong has been jailed for six months. The boyfriend Pedro Ruiz convinced Monalisa Perez to shoot him at close range with a powerful pistol, believing that the thick book he held in front of his chest would shield him. They wanted the video to go viral.

一则误传搞怪视频显示，美国明尼苏达州的一名女子失手傻掉了自己的男友，并为此入狱半年。她的男友名为佩德罗·鲁伊斯劝服这位名为蒙娜丽莎· 佩雷斯的女子相信：即便是用强大的手枪来向他射击，但只要射程很近，那么他在胸前举着的一本厚书是能够帮他防御子弹的。他们希望这则视频能风靡网络。

1 forthright   

adj.直率的，直截了当的 [同]frank

参考例句：

• It's sometimes difficult to be forthright and not give offence.又直率又不得罪人，这有时很难办到。
• He told me forthright just why he refused to take my side.他直率地告诉我他不肯站在我这一边的原因。

2 subversive   

adj.颠覆性的，破坏性的；n.破坏份子，危险份子

参考例句：

• She was seen as a potentially subversive within the party.她被看成党内潜在的颠覆分子。
• The police is investigating subversive group in the student organization.警方正调查学生组织中的搞颠覆阴谋的集团。

3 modernizing   

使现代化，使适应现代需要( modernize的现在分词 )； 现代化，使用现代方法

参考例句：

• Modernizing a business to increase its profitability and competitiveness is a complicated affair. 使企业现代化，从而达到增加利润，增强竞争力的目的，是一件复杂的事情。
• The young engineer had a large share in modernizing the factory. 这位年轻工程师在工厂现代化的过程中尽了很大的“力”。

4 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

5 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。

6 commentator   

n.注释者，解说者；实况广播评论员

参考例句：

• He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
• The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。

7 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

8 tariffs   

关税制度； 关税( tariff的名词复数 )； 关税表； （旅馆或饭店等的）收费表； 量刑标准

参考例句：

• British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by protective tariffs. 保护性关税使英国工业免受国际竞争影响。
• The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade. 新的关税制对开展贸易极为不利。

9 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。

10 mangrove   

n.(植物)红树，红树林

参考例句：

• It is the world's largest tidal mangrove forest.它是世界上最大的红树林沼泽地。
• Many consider this the most beautiful mangrove forest in all Thailand.许多人认为这里是全泰国最美丽的红树林了。

11 coastal   

adj.海岸的，沿海的，沿岸的

参考例句：

• The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
• This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。

12 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

14 annul   

v.宣告…无效，取消，废止

参考例句：

• They have the power to alter or annul inappropriate decisions of their own standing committees.他们有权改变或者撤销本级人民代表大会常务委员会不适当的决定。
• The courts later found grounds to annul the results,after the king urged them to sort out the "mess".在国王敦促法庭收拾烂摊子后，法庭随后宣布废除选举结果。

15 prank   

n.开玩笑，恶作剧；v.装饰；打扮；炫耀自己

参考例句：

• It was thought that the fire alarm had been set off as a prank.人们认为火警报警器响是个恶作剧。
• The dean was ranking the boys for pulling the prank.系主任正在惩罚那些恶作剧的男学生。