英语听力精选进阶版 9288

Three senior Kenya officials have been found guilty of contempt after they failed to obey a court order to release a detained opposition¹ politician. The latest row sent us on the opposition politician Miguna Miguna, he was charged with treason for his role in a mock swearing-in ceremony of the opposition leader Raila Odinga. Our Africa editor Mary Harper reports.

三名肯尼亚高官因不服从法院要求释放一名被拘留反对党官员的判令而被判污蔑罪。近期争端将我们拉回到反对党官员米古纳·米古纳身上，他因参与反对党领袖拉伊拉·奥廷加的模拟就职典礼而被指控犯有叛国罪。以下是本台非洲编辑玛丽·哈珀的报道。

A judge has ordered the Interior Minister, the Inspector² General of Police and the Head of Immigration to appear for sentencing on Thursday Morning. This marks a dramatic escalation³ in the row between the government and the judiciary which began during a disputed election last year. The judge told the court it was now the judiciary that was on trial with politician simply ignoring its orders. When the Supreme⁴ Court annulled⁵ the results of the Kenya's presidential poll, President Uhuru Kenyatta referred to the judges as crooks⁶.

法官命令肯尼亚内政部长、警务督察和移民局长于周四上午出庭受审。这标志着肯尼亚政府和司法部门之间的斗争的大幅升级，这场斗争开始于去年一场备受争议的选举。法官在法庭上称，由于政府官员对判令不屑一顾，所以目前由司法部门受审。最高法院取消肯尼亚总统选举投票结果后，乌胡鲁·肯雅塔总统将法官称作骗子。

English health officials say they detected the world's first case of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea that hasn't responded to the frontline antibiotic⁷ designed to treat it. Doctors have been warning for years that the bacteria was becoming resistant⁸ to drugs. Here's our health and science correspondent James Galagia. This is the worst case of super-gonorrhoea ever detected. The man harbouring the superbug had a regular partner in the UK, but picked up the infection after a sexual encounter in Southeast Asia. The main antibiotic treatment, a combination of azithromycin and ceftriaxone has failed to treat the disease. Public Health England said it was the first time anywhere in the world that such a high level of resistance has been found. The sexually transmitted infection can cause infertility⁹ and doctors fear it could soon become untreatable.

英国健康部门官员称他们发现了全球首例性传播疾病，目前最先进的抗生素对这种淋病也没有疗效。多年来医务人员一直在警告人们称这种细菌的抗药性在不断增强。以下由本台健康科学记者詹姆斯·格拉吉亚为您报道。这是有史以来发现的最严重的一例“超级淋病”。感染病毒的这名男性在英国有一名固定性伴，但是在东南亚的一次性行为中被感染。目前最主要的抗生素疗法是阿奇霉素和头孢曲松混合治疗，但却无法治愈该疾病。英国公共卫生部称这是世界范围内首次发现抗药性如此之强的病毒。这种性传播感染可能造成不孕症，医生担心很快这种疾病将无法医治。

Researchers are appraising¹⁰ an unusually transparent¹¹ galaxy¹² which appears to contain no dark matter that was never been seen. Dark matter is considered the essential building block of the universe. Because it has greater mass than normal matter, it's believed to hold the necessary gases together while galaxies¹³ are forming. When scientists studied a ghostlike galaxy 60 million light-years from the Milky¹⁴ Way, they found its few, bright clusters of stars accounted for all of its mass. They think this galaxy could offer proof that dark matter is real.

科研人员正在鉴定一个罕见的透明星系，该星系中似乎不存在暗物质，这是人类从未见到过的现象。暗物质被认为是构成宇宙的基本物质。由于它比正常物质的质量更大，人们认为它是在星系形成时将必要气体聚集在了一起。当科学家们研究这个距离银河系六千万光年的幽灵般的星系时，他们发现其少量恒星团可以解释该星系的全部质量。他们认为该星系可以证明暗物质的存在。

1 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。

2 inspector   

n.检查员，监察员，视察员

参考例句：

• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
• The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。

3 escalation   

n.扩大，增加

参考例句：

• The threat of nuclear escalation remains. 核升级的威胁仍旧存在。 来自辞典例句
• Escalation is thus an aspect of deterrence and of crisis management. 因此逐步升级是威慑和危机处理的一个方面。 来自辞典例句

4 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。

5 annulled   

v.宣告无效( annul的过去式和过去分词 )；取消；使消失；抹去

参考例句：

• Their marriage was annulled after just six months. 他们的婚姻仅过半年就宣告取消。
• Many laws made by the former regime have been annulled. 前政权制定的许多法律被宣布无效。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 crooks   

n.骗子( crook的名词复数 )；罪犯；弯曲部分；（牧羊人或主教用的）弯拐杖v.弯成钩形( crook的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The police are getting after the crooks in the city. 警察在城里追捕小偷。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The cops got the crooks. 警察捉到了那些罪犯。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 antibiotic   

adj.抗菌的；n.抗生素

参考例句：

• The doctor said that I should take some antibiotic.医生说我应该服些用抗生素。
• Antibiotic can be used against infection.抗菌素可以用来防止感染。

8 resistant   

adj.(to)抵抗的，有抵抗力的

参考例句：

• Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
• They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。

9 infertility   

n.不肥沃，不毛；不育

参考例句：

• It is the Geneva, Switzerland-based Biotech Company's second recombinant infertility drug. 它是瑞士生物技术公司在日内瓦的公司生产的第二种重组治疗不孕症的药。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术制药疫苗
• Endometritis is a cause of infertility. 子宫内膜炎是不育的原子。 来自辞典例句

10 appraising   

v.估价( appraise的现在分词 )；估计；估量；评价

参考例句：

• At the appraising meeting, experts stated this method was superior to others. 鉴定会上，专家们指出这种方法优于其他方法。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The teacher is appraising the students' work. 老师正在评定学生的作业。 来自辞典例句

11 transparent   

adj.明显的，无疑的；透明的

参考例句：

• The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明，可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
• The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。

12 galaxy   

n.星系；银河系；一群(杰出或著名的人物)

参考例句：

• The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
• The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。

13 galaxies   

星系( galaxy的名词复数 )； 银河系； 一群（杰出或著名的人物）

参考例句：

• Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies. 类星体是遥远星系的极为活跃的核心体。
• We still don't know how many galaxies there are in the universe. 我们还不知道宇宙中有多少个星系。

14 milky   

adj.牛奶的，多奶的；乳白色的

参考例句：

• Alexander always has milky coffee at lunchtime.亚历山大总是在午餐时喝掺奶的咖啡。
• I like a hot milky drink at bedtime.我喜欢睡前喝杯热奶饮料。