英国新闻听力 37

BBC News with Fiona McDonald.

After days of heavy losses, stock markets in the United States have surged amid reports that President-elect Barack Obama will nominate the President of the New York Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, as his new treasury¹ secretary. Caroline Hepker reports from New York.

Share prices in New York looked bleak² on Friday until reports emerged that President-elect Barack Obama would likely nominate Timothy Geithner as the new US treasury secretary. The Dow Jones Index of 30 leading companies rocketed higher by six and a half percent to end above the important 8,000 level. The Treasury post is seen as a critical appointment in the current economic climate. Investors³ seem to welcome the idea that 47-year-old, Mr. Geithner, the current head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, might take over from US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson come January 2009.

Prosecutors⁴ in Mexico have accused the country's former top anti-drugs official, Noe Ramirez, of taking almost half a million dollars in bribes⁵ from a drugs cartel. Mr. Ramirez, who was head of an Organized Crime Investigation⁶ Division, known as SIEDO, was arrested on Thursday. The Attorney-General, Eduardo Medina-Mora, said Mr. Ramirez had been accused of telling drugs traffickers about police operations in return for monthly payments.

After taking the position as head of SIEDO, he met with a member of the Pacific cartel and received from that person a payment of 450,000 dollars, in exchange for providing information about police investigations⁷ to combat this criminal organization.

An 88-year-old man, who has been living in the United States since World War II, has returned to Berlin to receive a university degree which was denied to him 65 years ago. From Berlin, Steve Rosenberg reports.

In 1943, a student of Berlin’s Technical University, Dimitri Stein, submitted his doctoral thesis on the stability of electrical circuits. It was rejected not because of the content, but because of the author's ancestry⁸. The university discovered Dimitri's father was Jewish. Denied a doctorate⁹, he hid from the Nazis¹⁰, fled Germany and escaped to America. But 65 years on, the university has relented. At the age of 88, Dimitri was invited back to Berlin to present his thesis and he's finally been awarded his PhD.

President Bush has arrived in Peru on his last scheduled foreign trip. He is attending an Asia-Pacific summit set to be dominated by the international financial crisis. Mr. Bush is expected to press Asian and American leaders to back measures agreed at another economic summit last weekend to boost the world economy. Later today, he will meet the Chinese President Hu Jintao for talks which will include discussion on North Korea's nuclear program.

World News from the BBC.

The United States Defense¹¹ Secretary, Robert Gates, has said NATO needs to modify its military strategy in Afghanistan to combat growing Taliban influence. Mr. Gates wants to introduce a single command for the south of the country that could call on troops from any NATO nation to fight.

A teenager in the American state of Florida has committed suicide in front of a live Internet audience. Abraham Biggs, who was 19, killed himself hours after announcing his intention to do so on his blog. Andy Gallagher reports.

When Abraham Biggs posted messages on line, telling people he was going to kill himself, no one took with the teenager seriously. The young man then started streaming live pictures from his home in Florida, where it's reported that some of those who logged on to watch began to encourage him to commit suicide, even when Mr. Biggs took an overdose of prescription¹² drugs and lay down on his bed, it saw some users continue to taunt¹³ him. It was only after several hours when the teenager hadn't moved that the authorities were alerted, the last transmission from his webcam is of a police officer bursting into his room, when he discovered the body of Abraham Biggs he places his hand over the camera.

The BBC has uncovered evidence of what appears to be the use of torture by the Russian security forces in the predominantly Muslim Republic of Ingushetia in southern Russia. During a visit to Ingushetia, a BBC team interviewed people who said their relatives had been shot dead for being Muslims. The Russian authorities say they are fighting growing rebellion by militants¹⁴ who want to establish an Islamic state across north Caucasus.

Reports from Somalia say Islamist insurgents¹⁵ have begun searching for the pirates who hijacked¹⁶ a giant Saudi oil tanker¹⁷ last Saturday. A spokesman for the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab, said hijacking¹⁸ a Muslim-owned ship was a big crime, he said his group would pursue those responsible, the pirates have been negotiating by satellite phone with the tanker's Saudi owners.

BBC News.

1 treasury   

n.宝库；国库，金库；文库

参考例句：

• The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
• This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。

2 bleak   

adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的

参考例句：

• They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
• The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。

3 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

4 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

5 bribes   

n.贿赂( bribe的名词复数 )；向（某人）行贿，贿赂v.贿赂( bribe的第三人称单数 )；向（某人）行贿，贿赂

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• corrupt officials accepting bribes 接受贿赂的贪官污吏

6 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

7 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

8 ancestry   

n.祖先，家世

参考例句：

• Their ancestry settled the land in 1856.他们的祖辈1856年在这块土地上定居下来。
• He is an American of French ancestry.他是法国血统的美国人。

9 doctorate   

n.(大学授予的)博士学位

参考例句：

• He hasn't enough credits to get his doctorate.他的学分不够取得博士学位。
• Where did she do her doctorate?她在哪里攻读博士？

10 Nazis   

n.（德国的）纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 )；纳粹主义

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 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。

12 prescription   

n.处方，开药；指示，规定

参考例句：

• The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
• The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。

13 taunt   

n.辱骂，嘲弄；v.嘲弄

参考例句：

• He became a taunt to his neighbours.他成了邻居们嘲讽的对象。
• Why do the other children taunt him with having red hair?为什么别的小孩子讥笑他有红头发？

14 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。

15 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

16 hijacked   

劫持( hijack的过去式和过去分词 )； 绑架； 拦路抢劫； 操纵（会议等，以推销自己的意图）

参考例句：

• The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome. 飞机在从伦敦飞往罗马途中遭到两名持械男子劫持。
• The plane was hijacked soon after it took off. 那架飞机起飞后不久被劫持了。

17 tanker   

n.油轮

参考例句：

• The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
• Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。

18 hijacking   

n. 劫持, 抢劫 动词hijack的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• I have been told about the hijacking . 我已听说了那次劫机事件。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语
• They are taking measures to guarantee against the occurrence of hijacking. 他们正采取措施防止劫机事件的发生。