BBC News, this is Mike Cooper.
Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged her supporters not to give up hope. She told them she would need help in bringing genuine democracy to Burma, something that one person could not do alone.
"This is what I've told them. I'm not going to be able to do this. You've got to do it with me. One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy."
Speaking at her party headquarters in Rangoon a day after her release from house arrest, she said freedom of speech was the basis of democracy. The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson, who attended the news conference, said Aung San Suu Kyi sent a very clear message.
The press conference was one of the more chaotic, imaginable, people falling over, fighting each other, all through this, cut this calm, clear voice and the importance, as she sees it, of negotiation of keeping together of talking for the opposition to talk the same sort of language, and indeed, to talk to the government itself. Somebody said to her "What would be your message to the government?" And she said "I'd like to talk face to face."
The Israeli cabinet is considering whether to accept a new US incentive plan aimed at encouraging Israel to renew its settlement freeze in the West Bank. The US is proposing a construction freeze for 90 days which will exclude East Jerusalem. Wyre Davies has the details.
Some members of Benjamin Netanyahu's own Likud party and groups representing thousands of Jewish settlers have already rejected this plan to resume a building moratorium in settlements on the occupied West Bank. But the Israeli prime minister thinks he can muster enough support for the American proposals in his right-wing cabinet, because they include several attractive defence and security guarantees for Israel.
The Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said the time has come for the US to reduce military operations that disrupt daily life in the country. His comments put him at odds with the US commander General David Petraeus, as Quentin Sommerville reports from Kabul.
President Karzai wants American troops off the streets of Afghanistan and out of Afghan homes. In an interview with the Washington Post, he said that the time had come to reduce military operations and their intrusiveness into Afghan life. But the president acknowledged that an abrupt withdrawal would be dangerous, although he said the United States should start drawing down troop numbers next year. A surge of 30,000 troops has meant a dramatic increase in military operations in Afghanistan, and there's been a rise in the number of special forces missions in the country directed at removing mid- and senior-level commanders of the insurgency.
Meanwhile, insurgents in eastern Afghanistan have attacked a convoy of tankers carrying fuel for the Nato forces there. At least 12 were destroyed near the city of Jalalabad.
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The head of the British armed forces, General Sir David Richards, has said al-Qaeda cannot be defeated. He told the BBC the real long-term weapons against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan were education and democracy.
"The military are just about, you know, there. But the biggest problem has been ensuring that the governance and all the development side can keep up within a time frame, and these things take generations sometimes within a time frame that is acceptable to domestic, public and political opinion."
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has re-appointed Francois Fillon as prime minister as part of a government reshuffle that had been widely expected. Hugh Schofield is in Paris with the details.
At one point, it seemed certain that the president would replace Francois Fillon as prime minister, but in the end, he's decided otherwise. Mr Fillon is a calm and steadying figure, whose popularity ratings regularly exceed those of the president, and Mr Sarkozy has clearly decided that he needs his reassuring presence at the helm. Other senior figures are on the way out, though, notably the Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, a Socialist who's recently expressed unease at some government policies, and Herve Morin at defence.
The annual Muslim pilgrimage, the hajj, has begun in Saudi Arabia. Several million Muslims from all around the world are making the five-day pilgrimage starting with a night in the temporary tent city in Mina, just outside Mecca. For the first time, a train service will help pilgrims cover the long distances between the holy sites.
The Philippine boxer Manny Pacquiao has beaten Antonio Margarito of Mexico to win a historic eighth world title in eight different weight categories. Pacquiao, who's also a congressman in the Philippines, won every round against his larger and heavier opponent.
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1.genuine a.真正的,名副其实的;真诚的,坦率的
例句:As time went on, a genuine friendship grew up between us.
随着时间的推移, 我们之间产生了一种真挚的友情。
His wish to help seems genuine.
看来他是真诚地想给予帮助。
2.chaotic adj.混沌的;一片混乱的;一团糟的;混乱的;杂乱的;紊乱的
例句:Things can be fairly chaotic in our house.
我们家里有时比较混乱。
The traffic in the city was chaotic.
这城市的交通糟透了。
3.incentive n.激励某人做某事的事物; 刺激; 诱因, 动机,奖励
例句:A little bonus will give the employees an incentive to work harder.
一点奖金可以刺激雇员更加努力地工作。
4.exclude vt.排除; 不包括在内;不放在考虑之列
例句:Closing the windows excludes street noises.
关窗使街上吵闹的声音不能进来。
5.moratorium n.正式的延缓,暂停
例句:The government has called for a moratorium on weapons testing.
政府已要求暂停武器试验。
6.muster vt.vi.集合, 召集, 集结(尤指部队)
例句:The troops mustered on the square.
部队已在广场上集合。
7.intrusiveness n.侵扰性
8.reshuffle vt.对(某集体)作岗位或职责的调整,改组(某集团)
例句:He reshuffled the cabinet to firm his government.
他重新改组内阁以巩固其政府。
The prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet yesterday.
昨天首相改组了内阁。
9.notably adv.显而易见地;明显地
例句:Many students were absent, notably the monitor.
许多学生缺席,特别是连班长也没来。
1.Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged her supporters not to give up hope.
give up放弃;投降,认输; 猜不出
例句:I can't answer that puzzle; I give up.
我猜不出这个谜语, 我认输了。
She will give up this journey.
她将放弃这次旅行。
2.His comments put him at odds with the US commander General David Petraeus, as Quentin Sommerville reports from Kabul.
at odds with与…不和, 与…争吵
例句:She is at odds with her boss.
她与上司不和。
3.But the president acknowledged that an abrupt withdrawal would be dangerous, although he said the United States should start drawing down troop numbers next year.
draw down减少
例句:They seem to draw down ridicule on us.
他们似乎要使我们受到嘲笑。
Draw down the window coverings, the sunlight is too bright.
把窗帘拉下来,太阳光太强了。
4.But the biggest problem has been ensuring that the governance and all the development side can keep up within a time frame, and these things take generations sometimes within a time frame that is acceptable to domestic, public and political opinion.
keep up跟上, 赶上
例句:If you cannot keep up, I can walk more slowly.
要是你跟不上, 我可以走得慢一点儿。
保持在高水准上
例句:In spite of the unfavorable weather, the grain output of the farm kept up and even increased a little than last year.
尽管天气不好, 但粮食产量并未下降, 甚至比去年还略有增加。
Mr Fillon is a calm and steadying figure, whose popularity ratings regularly exceed those of the president, and Mr Sarkozy has clearly decided that he needs his reassuring presence at the helm.
whose定语从句
定语从句(Attributive Clauses)在句中做定语,修饰一个名词或代词,被修饰的名词,词组或代词即先行词。定语从句通常出现在先行词之后,由关系词(关系代词或关系副词)引出。
关系代词有:who, whom, whose, that, which等。
关系副词有:when, where, why等。
关系代词所代替的先行词是人或物的名词或代词,并在句中充当主语、宾语、定语等成分。关系代词在定语从句中作主语时,从句谓语动词的人称和数要和先行词保持一致。
1)who, whom, that
这些词代替的先行词是人的名词或代词,在从句中所起作用如下:
Is he the man who/that wants to see you?
他就是你想见的人吗?(who/that在从句中作主语)
He is the man whom/ that I saw yesterday.
他就是我昨天见的那个人。(whom/that在从句中作宾语)
2) Whose 用来指人或物,(只用作定语, 若指物,它还可以同of which互换), 例如:
They rushed over to help the man whose car had broken down. 那人车坏了,大家都跑过去帮忙。
Please pass me the book whose (of which) cover is green.请递给我那本绿皮的书。
3)which, that
它们所代替的先行词是事物的名词或代词,在从句中可作主语、宾语等,例如:
A prosperity which / that had never been seen before appears in the countryside. 农村出现了前所未有的繁荣。(which / that在句中作宾语)
The package (which / that) you are carrying is about to come unwrapped. 你拿的包快散了。(which / that在句中作宾语)