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The director of the FBI James Comey says the bureau has identified the masked Islamic State militant¹ who carried out the recent beheadings of two US journalists and a British aid worker. Mr. Comey said the killer² was identified with the help of international partners. Ali McBull reports from Washington.

FBI局长詹姆斯·科米称本机构已识别出最近对两名美国记者和一名英国援助人员砍头的“伊斯兰国”蒙面武装分子，科米说凶手得到了国际同伙的帮助。Ali McBull在华盛顿报道。

The FBI director James Comey didn't reveal his name or nationality, but said the man video-taped apparently³ murdering American and British hostages has now been identified. Officials in the UK have recently said the man appeared to be British. The same militant has now appeared in several tapes released by the extremists group ISIS. In the most chilling, he stands beside the hostages, the British aid worker David Haines, the American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff before taking a knife to their throats.

FBI局长詹姆斯·科米没有透露凶手的名字和国籍，但称视频中的这名男子显然杀害了目前已经确认的美国和英国人质。英国官方最近称此人似乎是英国人，目前此人出现在极端组织ISIS公布的几个视频中。最令人发指的是，他站在人质英国援助人员海恩斯和美国记者詹姆斯·佛利、史蒂夫身后，然后拿出刀子逼近他们的喉咙。

The United States has said it's too early to say that the coalition⁴ it's leading is winning the fight against the Islamic State militants⁵. The Defense⁶ Department said that even after the hit the Islamic State has taken, they had access to finance, weapons and volunteers. The airstrikes against the militants have continued in both Syria and Iraq with planes targeting vehicles, check points and command posts. Youlan Nail has been speaking to Syrian Kurds on the Turkish boarder.

美国称现在说联盟对“伊斯兰国”武装分子的打击会打赢还为时过早，国防部称即使是打击了“伊斯兰国”，他们还能获得资金、武器和志愿者。在叙利亚和伊拉克，针对这些武装分子的空中打击仍在继续，飞机对目标汽车、检查站和指挥站进行了打击。Youlan Nail采访了土耳其边界的叙利亚库尔德人。

The YPG, the Kurdish militia⁷ that operates in that area says it has been reinforced by Kurds from Turkey coming in as well and says it has managed to halt the IS advance. And that does give a lot of encouragement to Iraqi Kurds that you speak to. And now they are very keen to have more military help from the Americans, from British. This air power is helping⁸ them on the grounds but obviously you see a kind of holding passing here: They haven't managed to win back really big strategic gains from IS at this stage.

在该地区活动的库尔德民兵YPG称得到来自土耳其的库尔德人的支援，称正努力遏制IS的进攻。但这并不能很好地鼓舞这些伊拉克库尔德人，现在他们很希望美国和英国提供更多军事援助。目前空中力量在战场上帮助他们，但显然显而易见的是，他们目前还无法从IS手中夺回真正重大的战略失地。

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has alleged⁹ that strategic blunders by Western countries in the Middle East have turned it into a heaven for terrorists. Mr. Rouhani told world leaders at the UN General Assembly that certain states and intelligence agencies had, he said, put blades in the hands of mad men who now spared no one.

伊朗总统哈桑·鲁哈尼称西方国家在中东的战略失误使得该地区成为恐怖分子的庇护所，鲁哈尼在联合国大会上告诉世界领导人，某些国家和情报机构将刀子交给杀人眼红的疯子。

Scientists say at least 500 million computers could be at risk from a newly discovered bug¹⁰ which could make them vulnerable to remote cyber attacks. The flaw which has been dubbed¹¹ Shellshock has been found in software in popular operating systems such as Linex and Apple's Mac operating system. Professor Alan Woodward is a security researcher from the University of Surrey.

科学家称至少5亿台电脑可能受到一种新发现故障的危害，这种故障可使电脑容易受到远程网络袭击的破坏。这个名为Shellshock的漏洞是在Linex和苹果的Mac等流行的操作系统中发现的。艾伦·伍德沃德教授是萨里大学的安全研究员。

It's been included in the past 25 years in all sorts of systems that run on Linex and indeed all sorts of imbedded systems that people probably don't realize are running. There is the software, like their WIFI routers, online disk drives, things like that. The upshot of it is it allows people to potentially run their own code or bits of programming remotely on your computer.

这种漏洞出现在过去25年内所有使用Linex的系统中，和所有人们没有意识到的嵌入系统中，比如无线路由器、在线网络磁盘驱动器，这种漏洞能让别人远程在你的电脑上运行代码或程序。

Suspected militants from the Boko Haram group have attacked the town of Shafa in northeastern Nigeria, killing¹² at least 18 people. Eyewitnesses¹³ said the assault began late on Wednesday and continued until Thursday morning. The Islamists are also said to have destroyed a number of churches and Christian¹⁴ homes in the town and attacked a nearby village.

疑似来自博科圣地组织的武装分子袭击了尼日利亚东北部Shafa镇，杀死至少18人。目击者称袭击发生在周三晚些时候，一直持续到周四早上。据悉这些穆斯林分子毁掉了该镇多个教堂和基督徒民居，还袭击了附近一个村庄。

President Obama says West Africa faces a humanitarian¹⁵ catastrophe¹⁶ unless the world moves more quickly to stop the Ebola outbreak. Mr. Obama said nations need to commit more air transport, care workers and medical equipments.

奥巴马总统说，除非全世界立即行动起来遏制埃博拉的蔓延，否则西非将面临人道主义灾难。奥巴马说各国需要提供更多空中运输、援助工人和医疗设备。

How fast we can arrest the spread of this disease is within our control and if we move fast even if imperfectly, then that could mean the difference between 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, that's versus¹⁷ hundreds of thousands or even a million deaths.

能多快遏制这场疾病的蔓延取决于我们，如果我们行动迅速，即使不那么完美，那就意味着能拯救一万、两万或三万人，否则就会坐视成千上万甚至100万人的死亡。

The police chief of Ferguson in the US State of Missouri, has apologized to the family of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was shot dead by a police officer in the city last month, a killing which sparked days of violent street clashes. In a video statement, Chief Thomas Jackson said he regretted the fact that officers had allowed Mr. Brown's body to lie in the street for four hours after he was shot.

美国密苏里州弗格森警局局长向迈克尔·布朗的家人道歉，上月这名手无寸铁黑人少年被警官开枪打死，这次事件导致数天的街头暴力冲突。局长托马斯·杰克逊在视频声明中说，他对警官让布朗的遗体在中弹后躺在街头4个小时赶到后悔。

The authorities in the United States have granted permission to six television and movie companies to use drones to shoot film scenes. The Federal Aviation Administration loosened previously¹⁸ tight restrictions¹⁹ on the commercial use of unmanned aircraft and would allow the six firms to fly drones, providing they don't compromise their safety.

美国当局批准6家电视台和电影公司在影片拍摄中使用无人机，联邦航空管理局放松了之前对无人机商业使用的严格限制，允许6家公司使用无人家，前提是无人机要确保其安全。

Moscow has sent a female cosmonaut into space for the first time in 17 years. Elena Serova is only the forth²⁰ Russian or Soviet²¹ woman in space. She and two male colleagues blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to take over at the International Space Station.

莫斯科将一名女性宇航员送入太空，这是17年来的第一次。艾琳娜·谢洛娃是进入太空的四位俄罗斯、苏联女性之一。她和另外两名男同事从哈萨克斯坦拜科努尔航天发射场进入国际太空站。

1 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

2 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

3 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

4 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

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 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。

7 militia   

n.民兵，民兵组织

参考例句：

• First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
• There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。

8 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

9 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

10 bug   

n.虫子；故障；窃听器；vt.纠缠；装窃听器

参考例句：

• There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
• The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。

11 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 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。

13 eyewitnesses   

目击者( eyewitness的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The examination of all the eyewitnesses took a week. 对所有证人的质询用了一周的时间。
• Several eyewitnesses testified that they saw the officers hit Miller in the face. 几位目击证人证明他们看见那几个警官打了米勒的脸。

14 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。

15 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

16 catastrophe   

n.大灾难，大祸

参考例句：

• I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
• This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。

17 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

18 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。

19 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

20 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

21 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。