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A judge in the United States has ruled that the heavily indebted city of Detroit is eligible¹ for bankruptcy². Judge Steve Rhodes told a packed courtroom that the city was clearly insolvent³ when bankruptcy was declared in July, the largest such municipal filing in the US history.

美国法官判定欠债累累的城市底特律获破产资格。史蒂夫·罗德斯在座无虚席的法庭上说，该市在7月份宣布破产时已经无力偿债，这是美国历史上最大的此类城市破产。

Unions and creditors⁴ had challenged the move, arguing Detroit had not negotiated with creditors in good faith. The ruling clears the way for the city to come up with a plan to shed $18bn in debt. The city's mayor Dave Bing said it was a tough day for Detroit's citizens.

公会和债主们对此发表不同意见，称底特律未能诚心诚意地与债主协商。该判决就使得该市提出剥掉180亿美元债务提供了条件，该市市长戴夫·宾说这对底特律市民来说是艰难的一天。

The judge has spoken and it's a tough day for all of us here in Detroit. I believe with the crisis that we have, this was inevitable⁵. I don't think anybody necessarily wanted to go in this direction. But now that we are here, it’s more important that we work together as opposed to continuing to fight each other.

法官说这对底特律所有在座的各位来说都是艰难的一天，我认为目前的危机使得破产无法避免。我认为没有哪个人想走这条路，但现在我们到了这一步，更重要的是团结一致不要再互相为敌。

The Vatican has refused to provide information requested by the United Nations on the sexual abuse of Children by priests. Robert Piggott has more.

联合国请求梵蒂冈提供有关牧师性虐儿童的信息，梵蒂冈表示拒绝。罗伯特·皮戈特报道。

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child put a wide-ranging questionnaire to the Holy See last July, asking for detailed⁶ information about the particulars of all sexual abuses notified to the Vatican since 1995.

联合国儿童权利委员会7月份对罗马教廷进行了广泛的问卷调查，询问有关1995年以来梵蒂冈收到的所有性虐细节信息。

The questions included whether priests, nuns⁷ and monks⁸ guilty of sexual crime were allowed to remain in contacts with children. In its response, the Holy See insisted it was separated and distinct from the Roman Catholic Church and that it was not its practice to disclose information unless specifically asked to by the authorities in the country where they were serving.

问题包括，犯下性罪行的牧师、修女和僧人是否允许与儿童解除。罗马教廷在回复中坚称此事与罗马天主教堂无关，本教堂无法公开这些信息，除非他们所在的国家当局专门请求才行。

A team of judges appointed by the French courts to investigate the death of Yasser Arafat near Paris nine years ago has dismissed a theory that he was poisoned. The judges say the Palestinian leader died of natural courses. Here’s Christian⁹ Fraser.

法国法院任命一个法官小组调查9年前在巴黎附近死亡的亚西尔·阿拉法特的死因，该小组已经排除所谓被毒杀的说法。法官们说这位巴勒斯坦领导人死于自然原因。克里斯蒂安·弗雷泽报道。

Yasser Arafat's official medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke resulting from a blood disorder¹⁰. But amid continuing claims he was murdered, his body was exhumed¹¹ last year. A Swiss report said tests on the body showed unexpected high activity of polonium, 18 times than a normal level which moderately supported, they said, the poisoning theory. But French reports say the delegation¹² of French judges that also traveled to the West Bank has ruled out poisoning, pointing instead to a death from natural courses.

亚西尔·阿拉法特的官方医学记录称他2004年因血液紊乱导致的中风死亡。但随着谋杀说法的继续流传，去年他的遗体被发掘出。瑞士一份尸检报告称遗体中含有超高水平的钋，是正常水平的18倍，这就支持了毒杀说法。但法国的报告称法国法官代表团去过西岸，且排除了毒杀的可能，称他死于自然原因。

Allegations that Poland has hosted a secret prison and torture center for the American Intelligence Agency the CIA have been heard in an open court for the first time.The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has their claims that Warsaw allowed the US to interrogate¹³ terrorist suspects in a remote forest in northern Poland in 2002. Lawyers for two men say they were waterboarded, subjected to mock executions and told their family would be sexually abused.

传闻波兰允许美国中央情报局在其境内开设秘密监狱和刑讯中心，此案目前首次庭审。斯特拉斯堡欧洲人权法庭声称2002年华沙允许美国在波兰北部偏远森林审判恐怖嫌犯，两位男子的律师称他们遭受水刑，被模拟执行死刑，并被告知其家人将受性虐。

The Ukrainian Prime Minister has said he's ready to talk to representatives of tens of thousands of protesters gathered outside parliament in Kiev, they are keeping up pressure on the government to sign a deal bringing Ukraine closer to the European Union. But Mykola Azarov said demonstrators must operate within the law.

乌克兰总理称他准备与在基辅议会外的成千上万抗议者代表们进行谈判，抗议者对政府施压要求签署使得乌克兰与欧盟更亲密的协议。但米克拉·阿扎罗夫说游行者们必须依照法律行事。

We know that the government has exposed its short comings and it's made downright mistakes. We understand this. We're open to criticism, and prepared for a dialogue with representatives of the protesters and the opposition¹⁴ parties. But we have one very important condition: They must stop occupying government buildings and interfering¹⁵ with the work of the government.

我们知道政府已经暴露出弱点，已经犯下彻底的错误。我们理解这一点，我们愿意接受批评，准备与抗议者代表和反对党进行对话。但我们还有一个重要的条件，那就是，他们必须停止占领政府大楼的行为，停止干预政府工作。

Here in Britain, the editor of the Guardian¹⁶ Newspaper Alan Rusbridger says that he has so far published just 1% of the files leaked by the former US intelligence analyst¹⁷ Edward Snowden. Britain's intelligence agencies have accused the paper of compromising the country's security. Appearing before the Home Affairs Select Committee, Mr. Rusbridger said senior figures in the US and Britain had countered that allegation.

英国卫报编辑陆斯布里哲说他目前只发表了前美国情报分析员爱德华·斯诺登泄露情报的1%。英国情报机构指责该报损害本国安全，陆斯布里哲出现在内政事务特别委员会面前，说美英高级人士已经反对该说法。

A senior administration official of the current Obama administration told us last week and answered the same question, damage, he said I've been incredibly impressed by the judgment¹⁸ and care that you would expect from a great news organization, and finally a senior vital official at the heart of this story September the 9th, I have not seen anything you have published today which he has risked lives.

奥巴马政府现任高级政府官员上周告诉我们，并回答同样的问题，即损害问题，他说我对你们希望从一家大新闻机构那里获得的判断和关心给我留下深刻印象，最终，作为负责9月9日这件事的最高官员，我尚未看到你们今天发表的这些让他冒生命危险的东西。

Just days before Friday's draw for next year's World Cup in Brazil, football’s world governing body FIFA has admitted that at least three stadiums won't be ready by the end of December deadline. They include the venues¹⁹ at Curitiba and Cuiaba, but most notably²⁰, at the stadium aimed on for the opening match in Sao Paulo which was damaged last week. FIFA's president Sepp Blatter said he trusted the organizer's ability to deliver on time.

就在周五巴西明年世界杯抽签仪式即将举行之际，足球世界管理机构FIFA承认至少三个场馆无法在12月最后期限时建成。其中包括库里蒂巴和库亚坝市的场馆，最重要的是举行开幕战的圣保罗场馆，而该场馆上周遭受破坏。FIFA主席塞普·布拉特说他相信组织方有能力按时交付。

1 eligible   

adj.有条件被选中的；(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的

参考例句：

• He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
• Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。

2 bankruptcy   

n.破产；无偿付能力

参考例句：

• You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
• His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。

3 insolvent   

adj.破产的，无偿还能力的

参考例句：

• They lost orders and were insolvent within weeks.他们失去了订货，几周后就无法偿还债务。
• The bank was declared insolvent.银行被宣布破产。

4 creditors   

n.债权人，债主( creditor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They agreed to repay their creditors over a period of three years. 他们同意3年内向债主还清欠款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Creditors could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtors. 债权人可以获得逮捕债务人的令状。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

6 detailed   

adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。

7 nuns   

n.（通常指基督教的）修女， （佛教的）尼姑( nun的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Ah Q had always had the greatest contempt for such people as little nuns. 小尼姑之流是阿Q本来视如草芥的。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Nuns are under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. 修女须立誓保持清贫、贞洁、顺从。 来自辞典例句

8 monks   

n.修道士，僧侣( monk的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The monks lived a very ascetic life. 僧侣过着很清苦的生活。
• He had been trained rigorously by the monks. 他接受过修道士的严格训练。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

10 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

11 exhumed   

v.挖出，发掘出( exhume的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Marie Curie's remains were exhumed and interred in the Pantheon. 玛丽·居里的遗体被移出葬在先贤祠中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His remains have been exhumed from a cemetery in Queens, New York City. 他的遗体被从纽约市皇后区的墓地里挖了出来。 来自辞典例句

12 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。

13 interrogate   

vt.讯问，审问，盘问

参考例句：

• The lawyer took a long time to interrogate the witness fully.律师花了很长时间仔细询问目击者。
• We will interrogate the two suspects separately.我们要对这两个嫌疑人单独进行审讯。

14 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。

15 interfering   

adj. 妨碍的 动词interfere的现在分词

参考例句：

• He's an interfering old busybody! 他老爱管闲事！
• I wish my mother would stop interfering and let me make my own decisions. 我希望我母亲不再干预，让我自己拿主意。

16 guardian   

n.监护人；守卫者，保护者

参考例句：

• The form must be signed by the child's parents or guardian. 这张表格须由孩子的家长或监护人签字。
• The press is a guardian of the public weal. 报刊是公共福利的卫护者。

17 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

18 judgment   

n.审判；判断力，识别力，看法，意见

参考例句：

• The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
• He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。

19 venues   

n.聚集地点( venue的名词复数 )；会场；（尤指）体育比赛场所；犯罪地点

参考例句：

• The band will be playing at 20 different venues on their UK tour. 这个乐队在英国巡回演出期间将在20个不同的地点演出。
• Farmers market corner, 800 meters long, 60 meters wide livestock trading venues. 农牧市场东北角，有长800米，宽60米的牲畜交易场地。 来自互联网

20 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。