英闻天下——168 Algeria: 37 Foreigners Dead in Hostage Crisis

 　　Algeria says that a total of 37 foreigners and an Algerian died at a desert gas plant and five people are still missing after the four-day hostage-taking siege.

 

　　American, British, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Filipino and Romanian workers were dead or missing after the attack.

 

　　Veteran Islamist fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar has claimed responsibility on behalf of al Qaeda.

 

　　Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal told a news conference that 29 Islamists had been killed during the siege and three were taken alive. Most of the gunmen were from various states of north and west Africa.

 

　　"Actually this group which had 32 terrorists, about one third of them were Algerians and the rest were from eight nationalities"

 

　　With numerous hostages unaccounted for the final death toll¹ is likely to be higher.

 

　　Algeria insisted from the start of the crisis there would be no negotiation² in the face of terrorism.

 

　　The civil war with Islamist insurgents³ in the 1990s has claimed 200,000 lives.

1 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

2 negotiation   

n.谈判，协商

参考例句：

• They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
• The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。

3 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