英国新闻听力 22

BBC News with David Legg.

Syria says four American helicopters have carried out a raid on a village eight kilometers inside its territory along the border with Iraq. Syria has protested to American and Iraqi diplomats¹ in the capital Damascus. There has been no official comment yet from the U. S. authorities. Correspondents say the raid took place near a significant crossing point for insurgents² who go into Iraq. The press attaché of the Syrian Embassy in London Jihad Makdissi, said the attack was an active aggression³.

"Four military U. S. helicopters penetrated⁴ the Syrian airspace unprovoked and they have headed toward a village called Al-Sukkiraya, eight kilometers inside the Syrian territory and they have bombarded or stormed a building under construction and they killed only civilian⁵, eight civilian and several injuries and a sixteen-year old boy was killed and the wife of the guard of the building was killed. "

The Mexican authorities said they've arrested a leader of one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world, the country's Arellano-Felix Cartel. The Defense⁶ Department said the man Eduardo Arellano-Felix was arrested after a shootout in the city of Tijuana on the United States’ border. Warren Bull reports.

The Mexican Defense Ministry⁷ said soldiers and armed police officers entered the Chapultepec area of Tijuana and despite coming under fire, detained Eduardo Arellano-Felix. He is accused of trafficking tons of cocaine⁸ and marijuana to the United States and the U. S. State Department had been offering five million dollars for his capture. The Arellano-Felix family dominated the drug trade into California in the 1990s but the deaths or arrests of many of its leaders have weakened the organization.

Ukraine and Hungary have become the latest countries to receive help from the International Monetary⁹ Fund to cope with the global financial crisis. The IMF has agreed in principle to lend Ukraine more than 16 billion dollars, much more than expected and the Fund says it has reached a broad agreement with Hungary on a substantial financing package. Details will be announced soon.

A former Colombian congressman¹⁰ who was held by left-wing guerillas for more than eight years has escaped along with a rebel leader who guarded him. The Congressman Oscar Tulio Lizcano said they escaped from a FARC guerrilla camp in the jungle in western Colombia. He is the first FARC hostage to gain freedom since the military freed the former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt in July. Mr. Lizcano publicly thanked the FARC rebel who helped him escape.

"I have to thank the person, the commander who had the courage and the guts¹¹ to escape, taking me, a very sick old man. But of course I also have to thank the national policy under the guidance of the president. "

World News from the BBC.

The right-wing mayor of Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo has been reelected in what’s seen as a blow to the governing Workers' Party. Gilberto Kassab of the Democrat¹² Party suffered the, defeated the Workers' Party candidate Marta Suplicy in a runoff vote. Correspondents say Mr. Kassab's victory will help the presidential election bid of his ally of the Sao Paulo state governor.

The leader of Israel's biggest political party Tzipi Livni has called for a general election after failing to form a coalition¹³ government. A new poll is likely to be held in February or March next year. Tim Franks reports from Jerusalem.

Tzipi Livni had spent just over a month trying and failing to persuade a number of small parties to join her in government. The key stumbling blocks appeared to be her refusal to increase child welfare payments to a sufficiently¹⁴ high level and to guarantee that Jerusalem would play no part in any future negotiations¹⁵ with the Palestinians. Binyamin Netanyahu, the leader of the main right-wing opposition¹⁶ Likud Party will start as the favorite to form the next government. Mr. Netanyahu has made it clear that he does not believe in the need for a separate Palestinian state.

The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama has told his followers¹⁷ that he is abandoning his attempts to persuade China to grant greater autonomy to Tibet. The Dalai Lama said he'd given up hope because there have been no positive response from Beijing. He said a special meeting of Tibetan exiles will be held in November to discuss how to move the dialogue forward.

Security officials in Pakistan say suspected U. S. spy drones have fired missiles into a militant¹⁸ training camp near the Afghanistan border, at least ten people are reported to have been killed in the strike in the troubled region of South Waziristan. Some reports say the camp was a stronghold of the top Taliban commander in Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud, but it's not known if he was being targeted. The strike is the latest in a series that's led to tensions between Washington and the new government in Islamabad.

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1 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
• The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 insurgents   

n.起义，暴动，造反( insurgent的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网

3 aggression   

n.进攻，侵略，侵犯，侵害

参考例句：

• So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结，就不必惧怕外来侵略。
• Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。

4 penetrated   

adj. 击穿的，鞭辟入里的 动词penetrate的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• The knife had penetrated his chest. 刀子刺入了他的胸膛。
• They penetrated into territory where no man had ever gone before. 他们已进入先前没人去过的地区。

5 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

6 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

7 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。

8 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

9 monetary   

adj.货币的，钱的；通货的；金融的；财政的

参考例句：

• The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

10 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

11 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

13 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

14 sufficiently   

adv.足够地，充分地

参考例句：

• It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
• The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。

15 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。

16 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。

17 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。

18 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。