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One of Russia's most prominent opposition¹ figures Alexei Navalny has been detained while trying to join hundreds of people protesting against his conviction for fraud. He has breached² the terms of his house arrest. From Moscow, here's Steve Rosenburg.

俄罗斯最著名在野党人物阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼因试图加入抗议反对自己被判欺诈罪的活动而被捕，他还违反了软禁规定。史蒂夫·罗森博格报道。

On Manezh sqaure, right by the Kremlin. And it's getting very noisy. Here on the square, there are supporters of the Kremlin opposition activist³ Alexei Navalny. But also supporters of president Putin, shouting abuse at one another. Around the square, riot police have been asking the crowd to disperse⁴. 

克里姆林宫右边的马涅日广场变得非常热闹，在广场上这边有克里姆林宫反对派活动人士阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼的支持者们，但也有总统普京的支持者，他们相互辱骂着。在广场四周，防暴警察请围观群众离开。

Earlier, in a Moscow courtroom, Alexei Navalny was given a suspended prison sentenced and the case was widely viewed as politically motivated. At the same trial, his brother was sent to jail for 3 and a half years.

早些时候，在莫斯科的法庭上，阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼被判缓刑，一般认为此案是出于政治动机。就在同一场审判中，纳瓦尔尼的兄弟被判监禁3年半。

Search teams have located the wreckage⁵ of a missing AirAsia plane off the coast of Indonesia after it disappeared during bad weather on Sunday. Relatives of those onborad broke down in tears when they saw television footages of bodies floating in the sea. The owner of AirAsia Tony Flanders said this could now be an end to uncertainty⁶ for anyone involved.

搜救小组已经定位到周日恶劣天气下在印度洋失踪的亚航飞机残骸位置，当机上乘客的亲属看到电视画面中海上漂浮的尸体时泪如雨下。亚航负责人说，对于所有关心此事的人来说，已经都已真相大白。

The only slight benefit exact for the people in there, there's some closure. This is a scar with me for the rest of life that doesn't change anything, though at least it's some closure as opposed to not knowing what's happened and holding up hope, etc. This brings an end to it. And we thank the Indonesian government and rescue team in finding the plane quickly and trying to evacuate⁷ everything as quickly as possible. And we move to find out what went wrong on that tragic⁸ day.

对各位来说唯一的一点好处是真相已经大白，这将是我余生永远的伤疤，不会改变任何东西，但至少是一种了结，而不是根本不知道发生了什么而空怀希望。现在有了结果，我们感谢印尼政府和搜寻小组，感谢他们很快就找到了飞机，并尽快地撤离了一切应该撤离的。我们下一步将调查什么导致了那天的惨剧。

Arab displomats of UN are pressing for a vote as soon as possible on a Palestinian-backed resolution that calls for an end to Israeli occupation within 3 years. Jordan wants the security council to vote in the coming hours. Alan Johnston reports.

联合国驻阿拉伯外交官要求尽快就巴勒斯坦支持的一项决议进行投票，该决议要求在3年内结束以色列的占领。约旦希望安理会在几小时内投票，艾伦·约翰斯顿报道。

There's been round and round Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and they've achieved nothing. So the Palestinians want to force the pace by setting deadlines. Their resolutin calls for Israel's withdrawl from the territory of occupies by the end of 2017 leavind behind an independent Palestinian state. But even if the plan manages to master the majorities in the security council, the Americans are virtually certain to veto it. They say the resolution fails to address Israel security needs.

巴以双方的和谈进行了一轮又一轮，但从未有进展。所以巴勒斯坦希望通过设置最后期限来加以推进，他们的决议要求以色列在2017年之前从占领区撤出，这样巴勒斯坦就能成为独立的国家。但即使该决议能设法获得安理会的多数支持，美国实际上也肯定会否决的，美国称该决议未能解决以色列的安全需要。

Italian navy and coastgurad officials have taken control of a Moldovan cargo⁹ ship believed to be carrying hundreds of Syrian migrants. They boarded the Blue Sky M after an altred course towards the Italian coast.

意大利海军和海岸警卫官员称控制了一艘摩尔多瓦货船，据悉船上载有数百名叙利亚移民。这些移民变道后登上了开往意大利海域的“蓝色天空M”号。

The president of Sierra Leone has called for a week of national pray and fasting to help the country step up the fight against Ebola. Preisdent Ernest Bai Koroma said Sierra Leonian should start the new year by renewing their determination to fight the virus. He said more resources should be deployed¹⁰ so there will be no more new cases. Public gatherings¹¹ were banned in Sierra Leone for 72 hour period including Christmas day as part of government efforts to slow down transmission of Ebola.

塞拉利昂总统呼吁进行一周的全国祈祷和禁食来帮助本国加大对付埃博拉的力度，总统欧内斯特·巴伊·科罗马说塞拉利昂在新的一年伊始应该振作对付这场病毒的决心。他说需要调遣更多的资源，这样就不会出现更多病例。政府为了减少埃博拉传播的可能性，就实施了72小时内禁止公众集会的措施，其中包括圣诞节在内。

The government in Somalia says the head of intelligence for the Islamic group al-Shabab Abdishakur was killed in an US drone strike on Monday. Kyth Attom reports.

索马里政府称伊斯兰组织阿尔沙巴布情报负责人Abdishakur周一在美国无人机袭击中被毙。Kyth Attom报道。

The Amniya is the name given to al-Shabab elite¹² intelligent unity¹³ tasked with carrying out suicide bombings, assassinations¹⁴ and weeding out informers. So the death of the unit's leader Abdishakur will be considered as a significant blow to the group. 2 other militants¹⁵ died in the air strike, which was carried out by US drones some 300 kilometres west of Mogadishu. American air power is proving an important weapon in Somalia's battle against the Islamic group. A similar strike killed al-Shabab's leader Ahmed Abdi Godane in September.

Amniya是阿尔沙巴布精英情报小组的绰号，该小组负责实施自杀式爆炸、暗杀和铲除告密者的任务。因此该小组负责人Abdishakur之死将被视为是为该组织的重大打击。还有另外两名武装分子也在空袭中毙命，美国无人机是在摩加迪沙西部300多公里处进行的袭击。事实证明美国空中力量是索马里对付IS组织的重要武器，9月份阿尔沙巴布头目迪·戈丹内在类似袭击中毙命。

Cuba's best known dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez says police have arrested her husband and another opposition activist. She said Reinaldo Escobar and Eliecer Avila were detained shortly before a planned protest in Havana's revolution square. Organizers say they aimed to test the Communist governmnet's tolerance¹⁶ following the announcement earlier this month that Cuba and the US would normalize relations.

古巴最著名异见人士博主桑切斯称警方逮捕了她丈夫和另一位反对派人士。她说雷纳尔多·埃斯科巴和阿维拉在哈瓦那革命广场举行原计划的抗议活动之前被捕。组织者称这是为了考验共产政府的容忍度，因为本月早些时候古巴和美国宣称将两国关系正常化。

The US authorities say a 2-year-old boy has accidently shot and killed a woman inside a Wal-mart store. Officials say the concealed¹⁷ gun went off when the child reached into the woman's handbag in the town of Hayden, Idaho. It's not clear if she was his mother. The woman had concealed weapon's permit.

美国当局称一名两岁男孩在沃尔玛无意间开枪杀死一名妇女，官方称案件发生在爱达荷州海顿市，当男孩把手深入妇女的手袋时，一把藏着的手枪就走火了。尚不清楚妇女是否是男孩的母亲，这名妇女还隐藏了这把枪的许可证。朱莉·坎德勒为你播报BBC新闻。

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 breached   

攻破( breach的现在分词 )； 破坏，违反

参考例句：

• These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
• Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。

3 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

4 disperse   

vi.使分散；使消失；vt.分散；驱散

参考例句：

• The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。
• The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。

5 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

6 uncertainty   

n.易变，靠不住，不确知，不确定的事物

参考例句：

• Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
• After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。

7 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

8 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。

9 cargo   

n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物

参考例句：

• The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
• A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。

10 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

11 gatherings   

聚集( gathering的名词复数 )； 收集； 采集； 搜集

参考例句：

• His conduct at social gatherings created a lot of comment. 他在社交聚会上的表现引起许多闲话。
• During one of these gatherings a pupil caught stealing. 有一次，其中一名弟子偷窃被抓住。

12 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。

13 unity   

n.团结，联合，统一；和睦，协调

参考例句：

• When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
• We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。

14 assassinations   

n.暗杀( assassination的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Most anarchist assassinations were bungled because of haste or spontaneity, in his view. 在他看来，无政府主义者搞的许多刺杀都没成功就是因为匆忙和自发行动。 来自辞典例句
• Assassinations by Israelis of alleged terrorists habitually kill nearby women and children. 在以色列，自称恐怖分子的炸弹自杀者杀害靠近自己的以色列妇女和儿童。 来自互联网

15 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。

16 tolerance   

n.宽容；容忍，忍受；耐药力；公差

参考例句：

• Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
• Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。

17 concealed   

a.隐藏的，隐蔽的

参考例句：

• The paintings were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster. 那些画被隐藏在厚厚的灰泥层下面。
• I think he had a gun concealed about his person. 我认为他当时身上藏有一支枪。