英语听力精选进阶版 14119

Jewish disturbances¹ over graves

Summary

17 May 2010

Members of Jerusalem's conservative Jewish community closed the main road through the city while protesting about very old graves being moved to allow a hospital emergency room to be built.

Reporter:

Paul Wood

Report:

Burning rubbish skips blocked the way for traffic through Mea Sherim, the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious neighbourhood of Jerusalem, overnight. The disturbances were small-scale but briefly² closed the main road through the city as well. Israeli police made a few arrests and also deployed³ a water cannon⁴ but for the most part they pulled back.

The Ultra-Orthodox were protesting over a decision by the Israeli government to build a new hospital casualty room on the site of some ancient graves. Archaeologists say the bones might well be pagan but the Orthodox say they are Jewish and the graves are being desecrated⁵.

The protest seems to be over, the demonstrators accepting that the hospital project will now go ahead. Members of the Orthodox community did however deny reports that they had put a curse on the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Reports in the Israeli press said that the curse in question wasn't designed to inflict⁶ mortal injury but, rather, would only invoke⁷ enough divine wrath⁸ to "chop off the hands" of the involved in disturbing the graves.

Paul Wood, BBC News, Jerusalem

1 disturbances   

n.骚乱( disturbance的名词复数 )；打扰；困扰；障碍

参考例句：

• The government has set up a commission of inquiry into the disturbances at the prison. 政府成立了一个委员会来调查监狱骚乱事件。
• Extra police were called in to quell the disturbances. 已调集了增援警力来平定骚乱。

2 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

3 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。

4 cannon   

n.大炮，火炮；飞机上的机关炮

参考例句：

• The soldiers fired the cannon.士兵们开炮。
• The cannon thundered in the hills.大炮在山间轰鸣。

5 desecrated   

毁坏或亵渎( desecrate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The invading army desecrated this holy place when they camped here. 侵略军在这块圣地上扎营就是对这块圣地的亵渎。
• She shouldn't have desecrated the picture of a religious leader. 她不该亵渎宗教领袖的画像。

6 inflict   

vt.(on)把…强加给，使遭受，使承担

参考例句：

• Don't inflict your ideas on me.不要把你的想法强加于我。
• Don't inflict damage on any person.不要伤害任何人。

7 invoke   

v.求助于(神、法律)；恳求，乞求

参考例句：

• Let us invoke the blessings of peace.让我们祈求和平之福。
• I hope I'll never have to invoke this clause and lodge a claim with you.我希望我永远不会使用这个条款向你们索赔。

8 wrath   

n.愤怒，愤慨，暴怒

参考例句：

• His silence marked his wrath. 他的沉默表明了他的愤怒。
• The wrath of the people is now aroused. 人们被激怒了。