BBC News with David Austin
President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has challenged the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to identify themselves and clearly state their demands as a basis for dialogue. He said military intervention was not the sole means of ending the conflict.
"The militaryconfrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontationis required now because you must reduce it by all means, but military confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation alone will not eliminate terror attack. Your superior intelligence and providing enabling environment for young people to have jobs."
Mr Jonathan, who was speaking in an interview with the Reuters news agency, said there was no doubt that Boko Haram had links with other jihadist groups outside Nigeria.
The American Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has been giving details of billions of dollars in cuts in the US military over the next 10 years. He said after a decade of war and expanding defence budgets, a turning point had been reached. Outlining his department's spending plans, Mr Panetta announced the army wouldshrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrinkby 80,000 soldiers from some 570,000 by 2017. Here's Paul Adams.
Mr Panetta said that after a decade of war and expanding defence budgets, this was a turning point: an opportunity to develop a new defence strategy which would result in a leaner but more flexible military. As expected, he announced significant reductions in manpower in both the army and Marine Corps. The navy and air force will lose older and less relevant equipment and some majorprocurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurementprogrammes, like the Joint Strike Fighter, will be slowed down. The military's global focus will shift with greater emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region and the withdrawal of two brigades from Europe.
A former Guatemalan military leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared before a court in Guatemala for a preliminaryhearing">hearing">hearing">hearingthat could lead to him being charged with genocide. He was in power in the early 1980s when some of the worst atrocities of Guatemala's long civil war were committed. Many indigenous Mayans were massacred as part of government efforts to defeat left-wing rebels. Mr Rios Montt denies responsibility.
The Senate in Argentina has been discussing the future of the Falkland Islands. The Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has rejected an accusation by the British Prime Minister David Cameron that her government has a colonialist attitude to the islands, over which Argentina maintains its claim ofreignty">sovereignty">reignty">sovereignty.
The Arab League is to ask the United Nations Security Council on Monday to back its plan to end the violence in Syria. On Sunday, the league called for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad tostep downand hand power to his deputy. In Syria itself, activists say there have been renewed clashes between the security forces and anti-government protesters near Damascus. Clashes were also reported in Deraa, south of the capital.
This is the World News coming to you from the BBC.
Scientists working with a species of locusts found in Asia believe they've made an important discovery about why the insects gather in such vast numbers. They say the locusts are looking for food which is high incarbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrates">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydratessimilar to a junk food diet for humans. Writing in the journal Science, the researchers say that the insects find this food on land which is low in nitrogen. The lead researcher Arianne Cease from Arizona State University said this makes themvulnerable tonitrogen fertilizers that encourage the growth of protein-rich foods.
"Our study suggests (that) sort ofcounter-intuitivelythat if we have animpending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impendingoutbreak - so a large number of juveniles of this particular locust - (that) we could use nitrogen fertilizer to apply that to some of the localised outbreaks, and then that would actually suppress their numbers going into adults and would likely suppress future swarms."
The front-runner in the race to be the next president of France, the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, says he can erase the country's public deficit and increase spending. Unveiling hismanifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto, Mr Hollande said he'd increase tax on high earners but cut it for small businesses.
A government office in the Irish capital Dublin has banned applicants from wearing pajamas when they attend interviews to assess their welfare payments. Andy Martin takes up this story.
It may have started when peoplenipped outwearing their slippers to the shops, but welfare officers in north Dublin are, it appears,fed up withwhat has been branded "pajamafication". In a community welfare office near Blanchards town where unemployed people can make appointments to seek advances or supplements to benefits payments, an official warning has now been posted. "Please be advised," it says, "that pajamas are not regarded as appropriate attire when attending these offices."
And that was Andy Martin reporting. And that's the BBC News.
第二页:中英双语听力稿
President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has challenged the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to identify themselves and clearly state their demands as a basis for dialogue. He said military intervention was not the sole means of ending the conflict.
尼日利亚总统古德勒克·乔纳森要求伊斯兰博科圣地军事组织明确自身,并明确表示这是进行对话的基础。他说军事干预并不是结束冲突的唯一手段。
"The military confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation is required now because you must reduce it by all means, but military confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation alone will not eliminate terror attack. Your superior intelligence and providing enabling environment for young people to have jobs."
“目前的军事对抗是必须的,因为无论如何都要减少冲突,但是单靠军事对抗并不能消除恐怖袭击。要提供良好的环境,使年轻人有工作可做。”
Mr Jonathan, who was speaking in an interview with the Reuters news agency, said there was no doubt that Boko Haram had links with other jihadist groups outside Nigeria.
乔纳森在接受路透社的采访中说,毫无疑问,博科圣地组织与尼日利亚外面的圣战组织有关联。
The American Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has been giving details of billions of dollars in cuts in the US military over the next 10 years. He said after a decade of war and expanding defence budgets, a turning point had been reached. Outlining his department's spending plans, Mr Panetta announced the army would shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink by 80,000 soldiers from some 570,000 by 2017. Here's Paul Adams.
美国国防部长莱昂·潘内达公布了未来10年内削减数百亿美元军队支出的细节,他说经过十年的战争,国防预算也在膨胀,因此转折点已经到来。潘内达概述了国防部的开支计划,他宣布截至2017年军队将由现在的约57万人缩减为8万。Paul Adams报道。
Mr Panetta said that after a decade of war and expanding defence budgets, this was a turning point: an opportunity to develop a new defence strategy which would result in a leaner but more flexible military. As expected, he announced significant reductions in manpower in both the army and Marine Corps. The navy and air force will lose older and less relevant equipment and some major procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement programmes, like the Joint Strike Fighter, will be slowed down. The military's global focus will shift with greater emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region and the withdrawal of two brigades from Europe.
潘内达说经过十年战争和国防预算的膨胀,转折点已经到来:美国应借此良机制定新的国防战略,使军队瘦身,但更富于灵活性。他如期了宣布陆海军人员大规模削减计划,如海军和空军将弃掉老旧无用的装备,并放缓如“联合攻击战斗机”之类的重要采购项目。军队将转换全球定位,将把重点放在亚太地区,并从欧洲撤出两个旅。
A former Guatemalan military leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared before a court in Guatemala for a preliminary hearing">hearing">hearing">hearing that could lead to him being charged with genocide. He was in power in the early 1980s when some of the worst atrocities of Guatemala's long civil war were committed. Many indigenous Mayans were massacred as part of government efforts to defeat left-wing rebels. Mr Rios Montt denies responsibility.
前危地马拉领导人Efrain Rios Montt出席委内马拉法庭做初步听审,他或被指控以大屠杀罪。他于20世纪80年代早期在位,当时危地马拉正在经历暴行最多的多年内战。在政府着力打击左翼叛军的行动中,许多土著马扬斯人遭屠杀。Rios Montt否认应对此负责。
The Senate in Argentina has been discussing the future of the Falkland Islands. The Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has rejected an accusation by the British Prime Minister David Cameron that her government has a colonialist attitude to the islands, over which Argentina maintains its claim of reignty">sovereignty">reignty">sovereignty.
阿根廷议会目前在商讨福克兰岛屿的前途问题,阿根廷对该岛屿保有主权。英国首相卡梅隆曾指责阿根廷政府对该岛屿持殖民主义态度,阿根廷总统Cristina Fernandez驳回了该说法。
The Arab League is to ask the United Nations Security Council on Monday to back its plan to end the violence in Syria. On Sunday, the league called for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and hand power to his deputy. In Syria itself, activists say there have been renewed clashes between the security forces and anti-government protesters near Damascus. Clashes were also reported in Deraa, south of the capital.
阿盟将于周一请求联合国安理会支持其结束叙利亚暴力的计划。周日,阿盟督促叙利亚总统阿萨德下台,并将权力移交副手。活动家称在叙利亚大马士革附近,安全部队和反政府抗议者之间的冲突不断。据悉首都南部的迪拉也有冲突发生。
Scientists working with a species of locusts found in Asia believe they've made an important discovery about why the insects gather in such vast numbers. They say the locusts are looking for food which is high in carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrates">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrates similar to a junk food diet for humans. Writing in the journal Science, the researchers say that the insects find this food on land which is low in nitrogen. The lead researcher Arianne Cease from Arizona State University said this makes them vulnerable to nitrogen fertilizers that encourage the growth of protein-rich foods.
研究一种在亚洲发现的蝗虫的科学家认为,他们已得到重大发现,明白为何这种昆虫能以如此多的数量聚集在一起。科学家说,这种蝗虫在寻找一种高糖食物,相当于人类吃的垃圾食品。研究人员在《科学》杂志上发表了研究结果,称这种昆虫在含氮低的陆地上寻找这种食物。来自亚利桑那州立大学的研究负责人Arianne Cease说,这样这种蝗虫就易受氮肥的伤害,因为氮肥能促进富蛋白食物的增加。
"Our study suggests (that) sort of counter-intuitively that if we have an impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending outbreak - so a large number of juveniles of this particular locust - (that) we could use nitrogen fertilizer to apply that to some of the localised outbreaks, and then that would actually suppress their numbers going into adults and would likely suppress future swarms."
“没想到的是,我们的研究发现,如果要有虫灾爆发,也就是大规模的这种蝗虫的幼虫,我们可以用氮肥来制止当地虫灾的发生,这就可以减少成长为成虫的幼虫数量,并可能抑制未来蝗虫泛滥的局面。”
The front-runner in the race to be the next president of France, the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, says he can erase the country's public deficit and increase spending. Unveiling his manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto, Mr Hollande said he'd increase tax on high earners but cut it for small businesses.
法国下届总统竞选的领先者社会党候选人Francois Hollande称,他宣称将消除本国的公共赤字,增加开支,并增加对高收入者的税收,减少小企业的税收。
A government office in the Irish capital Dublin has banned applicants from wearing pajamas when they attend interviews to assess their welfare payments. Andy Martin takes up this story.
爱尔兰首都都柏林一处政府办公室发出禁令,禁止申请者穿睡衣参加评估福利金的面谈,Andy Martin报道。
It may have started when people nipped out wearing their slippers to the shops, but welfare officers in north Dublin are, it appears, fed up with what has been branded "pajamafication". In a community welfare office near Blanchards town where unemployed people can make appointments to seek advances or supplements to benefits payments, an official warning has now been posted. "Please be advised," it says, "that pajamas are not regarded as appropriate attire when attending these offices."
这个习气或许最早是那些穿着拖鞋就匆匆去商店购物的人带动的,但北都柏林福利办事处显然讨厌那些被称为“睡衣主义”的行为。在Blanchards 镇一处社区福利办公室,无业人员可以在这里申请预支或增加救济金,如今这里贴上一条官方警告,上面写道,“请注意,我们认为,穿着睡衣进入此类办公室并不恰当。”
第三页:词汇解析
confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation
英汉解释
n. 对抗;面对;对质
同义词
n.encounter,face-off,opposition,showdown
参考例句
1. We can't risk anotherconfrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontationwith the union.
我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
2. Of all the possible boundary experiences,confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontationwith death is by far the most potent.
在所有可能的边界体验中,濒临死亡的体验是目前来看最有力的。
3. Local police said some of the terrorists to occupy a number of buildingsconfrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontation">confrontationwith the police.
中英文对照:当地警方称,部分恐怖分子占据了一些建筑物与警方对抗。
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shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink
英汉解释
vi. 收缩;畏缩
vt. 使缩小,使收缩
n. 收缩
同义词
n.head-shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrinker,psychiatrist
v.contract,cringe,reduce,shrivel
反义词
v.expand,spread out,stretch
词汇辨析
condense,compress,contract,shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink
这些动词均含“收缩,压缩”之意。 condense 指将东西压缩得更紧密、紧凑,但不失去原有的内容。
compress 指把乱而不成形的东西压成一定形状。
contract 主要指以内、外部力量进行紧缩,也可用作引申。
shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink 侧重指因收缩而达不到原有的长度、体积或容积。
参考例句
1. Washing wool in hot water willshrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrinkit.
在热水中洗毛线会使毛线收缩。
2. If the current trends continue, by 2020, the population of Singapore may start toshrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink.
如果目前的趋势继续下去,到2020年,新加坡人口可能会开始萎缩。
3. Status of pasture degeneration, desertification, lake areashrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrink">shrinkback were stated around Qinghai Lake. Suggestions of improvement Qinghai lake ecology were offered.
阐述了青海湖环湖区草原退化、沙化,湖面退缩的严重状况,提出改善青海湖生态的建议。
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procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement
英汉解释
n. 采购;获得,取得
同义词
n.procural,procurance
参考例句
1. DEFENCEprocurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurementin India has a big element of farce.
印度的国防采购有很大程度的闹剧成分。
2. Exportprocurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurementcentres shall be limited liability companies.
出口采购中心应为有限责任公司。
3. Maintenance tools, equipment, raw materialsprocurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurement">procurementplanning and raw materials control.
维修工具、设备、原材料采购计划和原材料的控制。
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hearing">hearing">hearing">hearing
英汉解释
n. 听力;审讯,听讯
v. 听见(hear的ing形式)
同义词
n.audience,audition,earreach,listening
反义词
a.deaf
参考例句
1. Thank you forhearing">hearing">hearing">hearingme on time!
谢谢你们一直聆听我的心声!
2. Hearing the news, they all jumped with joy.
听到消息后,他们高兴得跳了起来。
3. Hearing the good news, we all jumped with joy.
听到这个好消息,我们高兴得跳起来了。
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reignty">sovereignty">reignty">sovereignty
英汉解释
n. 主权;主权国家;君主;独立国
同义词
n.reign
参考例句
1. We believe in thereignty">sovereignty">reignty">sovereigntyof God in creation, in redemption, and as Ruler of all of life.
我们相信上帝在创造和救赎中有至高无上的主权,并且祂是一切生命的主宰。
2. Some people worry, Thailand's new position will affect temple near thereignty">sovereignty">reignty">sovereigntyof land for Thailand.
泰国一些人担心,古寺的新地位将影响泰国争取附近土地主权的机会。
3. The relationship betweenreignty">sovereignty">reignty">sovereigntyand human rights should be orientated on the basis of the citizen rights.
主权与人权的关系应定位于二者是公民权利基础之上的内在统一。
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carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate
英汉解释
n. 碳水化合物;糖类
同义词
n.saccharide,sugar
参考例句
1. Many people think of bread as acarbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydratefood.
许多人认为面包是一种碳水化合物。
2. Steamed dumpling contains low calorie, equivalent to only 70% of the latter, and lower fat andcarbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydratethan rice.
馒头比米饭热量低,前者只相当于后者的70%,而且脂肪和糖类含量比米饭更低。
3. Like protein andcarbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate">carbohydrate, adipose a kind of also be the body important nutrition, do not include any adipose food, can make metabolism disorder only.
像蛋白质和碳水化合物一样,脂肪也是身体的一种重要营养,不包括任何脂肪的饮食,只能使新陈代谢紊乱。
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impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending
英汉解释
adj. 即将发生的;迫切的;悬挂的
v. 迫近;悬空(impend的现在分词)
同义词
a.at hand,close at hand,imminent,impendent
参考例句
1. They received intelligence of animpending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impendinginvasion.
他们收到消息,说侵略就在眼前。
2. Your character has a well-developed survival instinct that warns him ofimpending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impendingdanger.
你的人物具有发达的生存本能,能够提醒自己警惕迫近的危险。
3. One of the most extreme examples of people refusing to move in the face ofimpending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impending">impendingdisaster is the Netherlands.
人们即使面临逼近的灾难还是拒绝搬走,最极端的例子之一是荷兰。
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manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto
英汉解释
n. 宣言;声明;告示
vi. 发表宣言
同义词
n.pronunciamento
参考例句
1. Themanifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifestowas crucial to the intellectual response to the war.
就知识界对战争的回应而言,宣言是至关重要的。
2. The Long March is amanifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto, a propaganda force, a seeding machine.
长征是宣言书,长征是宣传队,长征是播种机。
3. Presumably this is no Communist fabrication, for many Kuomintang members and I myself personally witnessed the adoption of themanifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto">manifesto.
这大概不是共产党“造谣”吧,这篇宣言的通过,我和很多的国民党员都是亲眼看见的。