意大利记者在叙利亚遭绑架五个月后获释回国

 　　意大利记者在叙利亚遭绑架五个月后获释回国

       ROME, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Italian journalist Domenico Quirico has returned home after he went missing in Syria five months ago, local media reported late on Sunday.

　　According to Italian newspaper La Stampa, for which Quirico was reporting from Syria, the journalist landed in Rome in pretty good health conditions.

　　"I feel like I have lived on Mars for five months. Only today I found out who the new president of my country is," he was quoted as saying by La Stampa.

　　In June Quirico phoned to his wife saying he had been put in confinement¹ for nearly two months, after which the Italian foreign ministry² confirmed that negotiations³ to bring him back home were in a "particularly delicate" phase.

　　Quirico, 62, an experienced war journalist, entered Syria on April 6 to report on the country's civil war, and had not been in contact with his family and colleagues since April 9.

1 confinement   

n.幽禁，拘留，监禁；分娩；限制，局限

参考例句：

• He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
• The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。

2 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。

3 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。