中英双语新闻 也门霍乱疫情加重

也门霍乱疫情加重

BBC news with Jonathon Izard.

The White House has said it will neither defend nor criticize the decision by the FBI to inform Congress of a new investiagtion into Hillary Clinton's emails. The FBI said last week that it had discovered new emails that might involve the Democratic candidate and would determine whether they contained any classified information.

Advancing Iraqi troops are now only about one kilometer from the edge of Mosul, the last big city in the country still held by Islamic State militants¹. A BBC correspondent travelling with their armed columne said it was targeted repeatdely by IS suicide bombers² driving vehicles packed with explosives.

Italian officials have estimated that they will cost around nine billion dollars to rebuild the towns and villages in central Italy wrecked³ by Sunday's earthquake. Speaking after a meeting with ministers and regional leaders, the prime minister, Matteo Renzi, said shipping⁴ containers will be used as temporary accommodation while repairs were carried out.

Police in Pakistan are trying to stop thousands of supporters of the opposition⁵ politician and former cricketer Imran Khan from taking part in a huge anti-government rally in Islamabad. The police fired tear gas at thousands of activists⁶ on the main road 80 kilometers outside the city in the * province which Mr.Khan's party controls.

Aid workers in Yemen say a cholera⁷ outbreak is worsening.The UN's emergency relief coordinator⁸ Stephen O’Brien said there were now 61 confirmed cases and more than 1700 suspected cases accross ten districts. There have been four recorded death but the real figure is believed to be much higher.

Four Indonisan sailers who were held hostages in Somalia for nearly five years have been reunited with their families. One said they were still scared and traumatized and could hardly believed they were free.

The Swedish diplomat⁹ Raoul Wallenberg who is credited with helping¹⁰ tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape the holocaust¹¹ has been pronounced dead 71 years after he disappeared. Sweden said the decision was made after an application from his family.

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白宫表示，关于FBI通知国会对希拉里·克林顿的邮件展开最新调查的决定，他们不会维护也不会批评。FBI上周表示，他们发现了可能与这位民主党候选人有关的新邮件，将查明是否包含任何机密信息。

不断推进的伊拉克军队现在距离摩苏尔边缘只有1千米，这是仍在伊斯兰国激进分子手中的最后一座大城市。与武装部队同行的BBC一名通讯员表示，他们曾多次遭到驾驶装满炸药的IS自杀式爆炸者的袭击。

意大利官员估计，周日地震导致意大利中部城镇和村庄被损，重建工作将耗资90亿美元。与部长和地区领袖召开会议之后，马泰奥·伦齐(Matteo Renzi)表示，由于修缮工作正在进行，将使用集装箱作为临时住所。

巴基斯坦警方试图阻止反对派政客，前板球运动员伊姆兰·汗(Imran Khan)的数千名支持者参加伊斯兰堡一个大型反政府集会。在汗的党派控制的城市外80千米处的主要道路上，警方向数千名积极分子施放催泪瓦斯。

也门救援工作者表示，霍乱疫情正在恶化。联合国紧急救援协调员奥布莱恩(Stephen O’Brien)表示，目前在十个地区已有61个确诊病例，1700多个疑似病例。目前有记录的死亡人数为4人，但是真实数字肯定高的多。

在索马里被劫持了近五年的四名印度尼西亚水手与家人团聚。其中一人表示，他们仍然非常害怕，遭遇了精神创伤，难以相信已经重获自由。

帮助数万名匈牙利犹太人逃离大屠杀的瑞典外交官劳尔·瓦伦堡(Raoul Wallenberg)神秘失踪71年后被官方宣布死亡。瑞典方面表示，他们是收到这位外交官家人的申请后做出该决定的。

1 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。

2 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 wrecked   

adj.失事的，遇难的

参考例句：

• the hulk of a wrecked ship 遇难轮船的残骸
• the salvage of the wrecked tanker 对失事油轮的打捞

4 shipping   

n.船运（发货，运输，乘船）

参考例句：

• We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
• There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。

5 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。

6 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 cholera   

n.霍乱

参考例句：

• The cholera outbreak has been contained.霍乱的发生已被控制住了。
• Cholera spread like wildfire through the camps.霍乱在营地里迅速传播。

8 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？

9 diplomat   

n.外交官，外交家；能交际的人，圆滑的人

参考例句：

• The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话，紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
• He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。

10 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。

11 holocaust   

n.大破坏；大屠杀

参考例句：

• The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
• Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。