VOA慢速英语2014 乌克兰和北约称:俄罗斯军队已进入乌克兰

 

Ukraine and NATO: Russian Troops Crossed Into Ukraine 乌克兰和北约称:俄罗斯军队已进入乌克兰

Ukrainian and NATO officials on Thursday said Russian forces had crossed the border into Ukraine to support pro-Russia separatists.

At a special Organization for Security and Cooperation meeting in Vienna, Ukrainian Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk, told reporters "what we registered is a direct invasion of the Russian military into the eastern regions of Ukraine."

Russian Ambassador Andrey Kelin denied the accusation¹ at the OSC meeting. He said, "No Russian forces are crossing in any point the border of Ukraine.’

A top NATO official said that well over 1,000 Russian troops are now operating inside Ukraine. He said “they are supporting separatists [and] fighting with them.”

NATO also released satellite images that it said show Russian fighting forces carrying out in military operations in Ukraine. The alliance said the images show Russian artillery² groups near the southeastern town of Krasnodon.

On Tuesday in Belarus, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko met with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to discuss a peace process.

WHO: Ebola outbreak could infect 20,000 people

The World Health Organization says that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa could infect more than 20,000 people over the next six months.

Dr. Bruce Ayleward is the Assistant Director-General for the World Health Organization.  He said medical experts, in his words, “are seeing today, in contrast to previous Ebola outbreaks: multiple hotspots within these countries — not a single, remote forested area, the kind of environments that have been tackled in the past. And then not multiple hotspots within one country, but international disease.”

The WHO is launching a plan designed to control the spread. The effort could take up to nine months and almost 500 million dollars. The organization also warned the disease would kill thousands more people before it is contained.

An experimental Ebola vaccine³ from GlaxoSmithKline is being tested on volunteers. The drug company hopes to produce 10,000 doses for emergency deployment⁴, if the results are good.

A bank account for everyone in India

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a new program to open a bank account for every family in the country. Hours before the launch in New Delhi, banks enrolled⁵ 15 million new accounts across India.

The program aims to bring poor people into a modern economy and reduce their dependence⁶ on money lenders.  

Pitt and Jolie marry

Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt married over the weekend in the southern village of Correns, France. The two have been a couple since 2005.  They have six children together.

This is Jolie’s third marriage and Pitt’s second.

1 accusation   

n.控告，指责，谴责

参考例句：

• I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
• She knew that no one would believe her accusation.她知道没人会相信她的指控。

2 artillery   

n.(军)火炮，大炮；炮兵(部队)

参考例句：

• This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
• The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。

3 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。

4 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

5 enrolled   

adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起，他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 dependence   

n.依靠，依赖；信任，信赖；隶属

参考例句：

• Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
• He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。