VOA标准英语2010年-Blast Kills Iranian Nuclear Physicist

An Iranian nuclear physicist¹ has been killed by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a motorcycle.  Iranian prosecutor² general Abbas Jaafar Dolatabadi is pointing the finger at Western intelligence agencies.   A U.S. State Department spokesman called the accusation³ "absurd."

Iranian-government TV is calling the explosion that killed a physics professor at Tehran University a "terrorist act."  The TV report says a bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed Massoud Ali-Mohammadi as he was getting into his car.

The TV showed relatives of Mohammedi crying in front of the building where he lived, as a large crowd of bystanders gathered around his burned-out vehicle.  Most windows in the modern-looking building where he resided appeared to have been blown out from the force of the explosion.

Foreign Ministry⁴ spokesman Ramin Mehmenparast accused Israel, America and Iranian mercenaries of being behind the "terrorist incident."

Tehran prosecutor-general Abbas Jaafar Dolatabadi told Iranian TV a similar story, saying because Massoud Ali Mohammadi was a nuclear scientist it was likely the CIA and the Mossad spy services and their agents had a hand in his killing⁵.

At least a dozen street-cleaners worked feverishly⁶ with their brooms, sweeping⁷ up broken glass.  An older man who witnessed the explosion explains what happened.

He says it was shortly after 7:00 a.m. when he heard the sound of an explosion that he thought was an earthquake.  When he arrived at the scene, he says, the door of professor Ali-Mohammadi's house was torn off and there was a fire.  He adds the professor's wife and children were crying, and the professor's head was slumped⁸ to the side as he pulled him out of his vehicle, dead.  I have known the family, he notes, for 24 years.

A monarchist opposition⁹ group reportedly claimed responsibility for the assassination¹⁰, accusing the professor of being involved in Iran's nuclear program.  Several people that knew him indicated that he was a "theoretical physicist," denying he was involved in Iran's disputed nuclear program.

Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam TV called Mohammadi a "hezbollahi teacher," to indicate that he was a staunch government supporter.  But an opposition Web site loyal to leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said Mohammadi was a well-known Mousavi supporter.  Mohammadi was also a veteran of the bloody¹¹, eight-year Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.

 

1 physicist   

n.物理学家，研究物理学的人

参考例句：

• He is a physicist of the first rank.他是一流的物理学家。
• The successful physicist never puts on airs.这位卓有成就的物理学家从不摆架子。

2 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

3 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。

4 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

5 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。

6 feverishly   

adv. 兴奋地

参考例句：

• Feverishly he collected his data. 他拼命收集资料。
• The company is having to cast around feverishly for ways to cut its costs. 公司迫切须要想出各种降低成本的办法。

7 sweeping   

adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的

参考例句：

• The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
• Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？

8 slumped   

大幅度下降，暴跌( slump的过去式和过去分词 )； 沉重或突然地落下[倒下]

参考例句：

• Sales have slumped this year. 今年销售量锐减。
• The driver was slumped exhausted over the wheel. 司机伏在方向盘上，疲惫得睡着了。

9 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。

10 assassination   

n.暗杀；暗杀事件

参考例句：

• The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
• Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。

11 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。