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President Obama says his administration is going to review whether to restore North Korea to its list of state sponsors of terrorism after blaming Pyongyang for a cyber-attack on the U.S. firm, Sony Pictures Entertainment. In an interview with CNN, Mr. Obama said he would implement¹ a suitable response to the hacking².

奥巴马总统称，在指责平壤对美国索尼影业公司进行网络攻击后，其政府将审查是否将朝鲜重新列入赞助恐怖主义的国家赞助者名单中。在接受CNN的采访中，奥巴马称他将对这次黑客事件作出适当的应对。

“I don't think it was an act of war. I think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly³, very expensive. We take it very seriously. We'll respond proportionally, as I said. We are gonna be in this environment in this new world where so much is digitalized that both state and non-state actors are going to have the capacity to disrupt our lives in all sorts of ways.”

“我认为这并不是战争行为，我想这是一场代价非常高昂的网络破坏活动，我们会严肃对待的。正如我所说的那样，我们将采取适当的应对措施。在这个如此数字化的新世界环境中，不论是国家还是非国家行为者都将有能力以各种方式扰乱我们的生活。”

The Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani has gone to Mount Sinjar to congratulate his fighters on breaking a long siege by the Islamic State group. The offensive by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters was launched last week. Mr. Barzani said the fighters were now intensifying⁴ their efforts to recapture the town of Sinjar below the mountain. Jim Muir reports.

伊拉克库尔德领袖马苏德·巴尔扎尼已前往辛加尔山，庆祝其武装人员冲破IS组织长期的包围。库尔德“自由斗士”武装人员上周发动了进攻，巴尔扎尼称武装人员正加大力度，希望夺回山下的辛加尔镇。吉姆·缪尔报道。

“Touring the strategic mountaintop of Sinjar, where his Kurdish Peshmerga forces have now regained⁵ control, President Barzani said that recapturing the town of Sinjar was not originally part of the battle plan. But Kurdish troops have penetrated⁶ deep into the town, which lies to the south of the mountain. Heavy fighting is going on there, but Mr. Barzani vowed⁷ to crush the militants⁸ wherever they could be found. The Kurdish advance has broken the IS siege imposed on thousands of minority Yazidis trapped for months on the mountain. Supply convoys⁹ are now able to get through.”

“巴尔扎尼前方辛加尔具有战略意义的山头，他的库尔德自由斗士武装已经夺回对当地的控制，巴尔扎尼称重夺辛加尔镇原本不是战斗计划的内容，但库尔德军队已经渗透到这个位于山南的城镇的深处。那里正在进行激烈的战斗，但巴尔扎尼承诺一旦发现武装分子，就会予以歼灭。库尔德的挺进已经打破了IS数月来对山上数千名少数民族雅兹迪人的包围。目前供给车队能够进入当地。”

Counting is taking place after voting closed in the Tunisian presidential election, seen as the culmination¹⁰ of the country's political transition following the Arab Spring uprising there almost four years ago. National television said early exit polls suggested the 88-year-old Beji Caid Essebsi is expected to win the poll. Turnout was lower than expected, as Naveena Kottoor reports from Tunis.

突尼斯总统选举投票过程已经结束，目前正在清点选票中，这次选举被视为是自4年前阿拉伯之春起义以来该国政治变革的高潮。国家电视台称早些时候的民调显示88岁的凯德·埃塞卜西有望赢得选举，投票率比预料的要低，Kottoor在突尼斯报道。

“It has been a very long election period. We had parliamentary elections here in October and the first round of presidential elections in November. And this was the third election in three months. So I think that explains why we are seeing lower turnout figures than people might have hoped for. Early days yet, but both candidates have given a press conference and have said that they would accept the results. One of them, Beji Caid Essebsi, the 88-year-old, leader of the Nidaa Tounes Party here, has already claimed victory. But I think we should wait until we have official election results.”

“这次选举持续时间很长，10月份进行了初步选举，11月举行了第一轮的总统选举，这是三个月内的第三次选举。所以我认为这就说明为何这次的投票率比人们希望的要低，尽管为时还早，但两位候选人都已举行过新闻发布会，称将接受选举结果。其中一位是88岁的某党领袖贝吉·凯德·埃塞卜西已经宣告获胜，但我认为我们应该等到官方结果揭晓再说。”

Votes have been tallied¹¹ in Liberia where Senate elections were held on Saturday despite the Ebola outbreak. In the capital Monrovia, the former football star George Weah has taken an early lead against the son of the Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Although strict health precautions were in place, turnout was low due to concerns about Ebola.

尽管埃博拉疫情仍在继续，周六利比里亚进行了参议院选举，目前正在点票中。在首都蒙罗维亚，前足球明星乔治·维阿遥遥领先于利比里亚总统埃伦·约翰逊·瑟利夫之子。尽管已经采取了严格的卫生预防措施，但由于人们担心埃博拉，所以投票率很低。

The Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan says police have arrested a number of suspects in connection with a recent attack on a school in Peshawar that left more than 140 people dead, nearly all of them children. On Sunday, thousands of Pakistanis visited the army run institution to mourn those killed. The Minister declined to give further details of those arrested.

巴基斯坦内政部长乔杜里·尼萨尔·阿里·汗称警方逮捕了与最近白沙瓦学校袭击案有关的多名嫌犯，那次袭击案导致140多人丧生，几乎全是儿童。周日，数千名巴基斯坦人来到军方机构哀悼遇难者，部长不愿透露被逮捕者的详细情况。

Those suspects have been taken into custody¹². please allow me not to divulge¹³ either the number or their identities. But quite a few suspects who’ve facilitated us in some way or other. And the interrogation is moving ahead in a very positive manner. Kindly¹⁴ wait for just a few days before we reveal the details, because there are still certain arrests have been made as a reserve of them from all over the country.

嫌犯都已在拘留中，请允许我不透露其人数或身份，但有些嫌犯以这样或那样的方式帮助了我们，我们将以非常积极的方式进行审讯。请耐心等待几天，我们会透露详情的，因为从全国来说还要进行一些逮捕行动。

There has been widespread condemnation¹⁵ at the killing¹⁶ of two New York police officers who were shot dead in their patrol car on Saturday. The authorities say that before the killings¹⁷ the gunman announced his plans online as retaliation¹⁸ for the death of Eric Garner¹⁹, a black man who died when white police officers tried to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes. The civil rights campaigner Al Sharpton said police misconduct cannot be tackled by people taking things into their own hands.

人们纷纷谴责周六两名纽约警察在巡逻车中被开枪打死事件，当局称在案发前，这名武装歹徒在网上公布了计划，称这是在为埃里克·加纳复仇，埃里克·加纳是一名黑人，白人警察因他销售未课税香烟而试图予以逮捕，然后他死于对抗中。民权活动人士阿尔·夏普顿称尽管警察行为不当，也不能由人们私自解决。

One of the best-known entertainers of the German-speaking world Udo Juergens has died at the age of 80, just two weeks after his last concert. Udo's career spanning half a century. The Australian born Juergens sold more than 100 million records.

德语世界最知名歌手优根思去世，享年80岁，就在两周前他刚举行过他的最后一场音乐会。优根思的职业生涯贯穿半个世纪，这位澳大利亚出生的歌手售出了一亿多张专辑。

A court in Argentina has decided²⁰ to recognize that an orangutan, who's spent the last twenty years in the Buenos Aires Zoo, was a creature who had feelings, and therefore should be allowed to live in greater freedom. In an unprecedented²¹ legal case, the court agreed that although the orangutan named Sandra was not human, the habeas corpus writ²² could be extended to her.

阿根廷法官宣称在布宜诺斯艾利斯动物园生活了20年的一头猩猩是有感情的动物，因此需要获得更大的自由。这是前所未有的一起案件，法院认为尽管这只名为桑德拉的猩猩不是人类，也应该对她进行人身保护。

1 implement   

n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行

参考例句：

• Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
• The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。

2 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

3 costly   

adj.昂贵的，价值高的，豪华的

参考例句：

• It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
• This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。

4 intensifying   

v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的现在分词 )；增辉

参考例句：

• The allies are intensifying their air campaign. 联军部队正加大他们的空战强度。 来自辞典例句
• The rest of the European powers were in a state of intensifying congestion. 其余的欧洲强国则处于越来越拥挤的状态。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史

5 regained   

复得( regain的过去式和过去分词 )； 赢回； 重回； 复至某地

参考例句：

• The majority of the people in the world have regained their liberty. 世界上大多数人已重获自由。
• She hesitated briefly but quickly regained her poise. 她犹豫片刻，但很快恢复了镇静。

6 penetrated   

adj. 击穿的，鞭辟入里的 动词penetrate的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• The knife had penetrated his chest. 刀子刺入了他的胸膛。
• They penetrated into territory where no man had ever gone before. 他们已进入先前没人去过的地区。

7 vowed   

起誓，发誓（vow的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
• I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。

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 convoys   

n.（有护航的）船队( convoy的名词复数 )；车队；护航（队）；护送队

参考例句：

• Truck convoys often stop over for lunch here. 车队经常在这里停下来吃午饭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys. 一名联合国官员说将会暂停援助项目，直到援助车队能够得到充分的保护为止。 来自辞典例句

10 culmination   

n.顶点；最高潮

参考例句：

• The space race reached its culmination in the first moon walk.太空竞争以第一次在月球行走而达到顶峰。
• It may truly be regarded as the culmination of classical Greek geometry.这确实可以看成是古典希腊几何的登峰造级之作。

11 tallied   

v.计算，清点( tally的过去式和过去分词 )；加标签（或标记）于；（使）符合；（使）吻合

参考例句：

• The girl tallied them with her eyes for a moment. 新娘用目光把这些化妆品清点了一下。 来自教父部分
• His account of the accident tallied with hers. 他对事故的陈述和她的相吻合。 来自辞典例句

12 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

13 divulge   

v.泄漏(秘密等)；宣布，公布

参考例句：

• They refused to divulge where they had hidden the money.他们拒绝说出他们把钱藏在什么地方。
• He swore never to divulge the secret.他立誓决不泄露秘密。

14 kindly   

adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地

参考例句：

• Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
• A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。

15 condemnation   

n.谴责; 定罪

参考例句：

• There was widespread condemnation of the invasion. 那次侵略遭到了人们普遍的谴责。
• The jury's condemnation was a shock to the suspect. 陪审团宣告有罪使嫌疑犯大为震惊。

16 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。

17 killings   

谋杀( killing的名词复数 )； 突然发大财，暴发

参考例句：

• His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
• The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。

18 retaliation   

n.报复，反击

参考例句：

• retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
• He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》

19 garner   

v.收藏；取得

参考例句：

• He has garnered extensive support for his proposals.他的提议得到了广泛的支持。
• Squirrels garner nuts for the winter.松鼠为过冬储存松果。

20 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

21 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

22 writ   

n.命令状，书面命令

参考例句：

• This is a copy of a writ I received this morning.这是今早我收到的书面命令副本。
• You shouldn't treat the newspapers as if they were Holy Writ. 你不应该把报上说的话奉若神明。