BBC News with Marion Marshall
Hospitals in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are struggling to cope with scores of dead and wounded following a series of bomb attacks on Friday. An eyewitness said he thought there were more than 100 bodies at the mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary of the main hospital. Mark Doyle is in Kano.
All day long, people have beenstream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">streaming">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">streamingtowards themortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuaryof the main hospital in Kano to look for the bodies of loved ones so they can be taken for burial. The majority of victims appeared to be civilians, but there were some uniformed police officers among the dead as well.
The series of explosions on Friday evening targeted police stations, a passport office and other government buildings. It was one of the deadliest blows the radical Islamist group Boko Haram has delivered against the Nigerian state. As dusk fell over Kano, armed police and army checkpoints were being set up across the city, and other security measurestightened up.
Islamist parties have secured an overwhelming victory in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since the downfall of President Mubarak a year ago. The final results showed that the Muslim Brotherhood had won over 40% of the seats. The hard-line Islamists, known as Salafists, came second. Jon Leyne reports from Cairo.
More than 80 years after they were founded, the Islamists, or the Muslim Brotherhood, areon the verge ofpower in Egypt after a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections. They had been putting themselves forward aspragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatists">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatistsby contrast with the more hard-line Islamists, known as Salafists, whom they beat into second place. Under Egypt's presidential system, it's still up to the army and the new president when one is elected to nominate the government, so the winners of this election don't automatically take office.
Angry protesters in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi have forced their way into the headquarters of the transitional government after besieging the building for hours. Witnesses said the protesters used stones and iron bars to break into the offices. Earlier, they threw homemadegrenade">grenade">grenade">grenades">grenade">grenade">grenade">grenades. Benghazi, which was at the heart of the rebel uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, has seen ongoing protests for several weeks. The transitional government is accused of failing to provide transparency or justice.
Voting is taking place in South Carolina, the latest leg of the battle for the Republicancandidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacyin the US presidential election with opinion polls promising a surprisingly tight contest. The front-runner until now, Mitt Romney, appears to be neck and neck with Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who's emerging as the latest champion of the party's conservative right wing. The chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, Chad Connelly, told the BBC that voters in his state were always unpredictable.
"I've been saying, you know, since the beginning, this will be a real race. Don't try to box in South Carolina voters. They're going to surprise you. This is a typical primary for us, and as much as the national media or the narrative was, you know, this thing or that thing, you just can't tell it on the ground. South Carolina voters are fiercely independent. They want to make their own decisions."
World News from the BBC
About 100,000 people in Hungary have marched through the centre of the capital Budapest in support of the Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
He's come under heavy criticism at home and from the European Union for adopting laws seen as endangering democracy. Many on the march carried banners in foreign languages appealing to Brussels and other European capitals to respect Hungarian sovereignty.
Africa's biggest football tournament, the Cup of Nations, has begun in Equatorial Guinea, which is co-hosting the event with Gabon. Equatorial Guinea won the opening match, beating Libya 1-0. Earlier, fans forced their way into the stadium as Alex Capstick reports from Bata.
It wasmayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhemoutside the ground as thousands of spectators tried to force their way through the one gate reserved for them to enter the stadium complex. Riot police attempted to push them back. Tear gas was fired into the air, but that only caused more confusion, and eventually the barriers were opened, and the fans flooded through. Security has become such an important issue at this tournament.
Memories are still fresh of the Togo team bus being attacked by gunmen in Angola two years ago.
A 16-year-old Dutch girl, Laura Dekker, has become the youngest person to sail around the world single-handed. She arrived in the Caribbean island of St Maarten a year and a day after she set sail. From The Hague, here's Anna Holligan.
The voyage almost never happened.Truancyand child protection officers tried to stop Laura from setting sail on the grounds that she would miss too much school and that such a long trip wasn't safe for such a young girl. Eventually after a 10-month court battle and after agreeing to a checklist of safety measures, at 14, Laura was allowed to go. Now she said she'd rather not come back to the Netherlands because she feels the countrystifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifles">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stiflesher freedom.
Guinness World Records has refused to certify the voyage as it doesn't want youngsters putting their lives at risk.
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第二页:中英双语听力稿
Hospitals in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are struggling to cope with scores of dead and wounded following a series of bomb attacks on Friday. An eyewitness said he thought there were more than 100 bodies at the mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary of the main hospital. Mark Doyle is in Kano.
自周五发生系列爆炸袭击以来,尼日利亚北部城市卡诺的医院正努力抢救数十名死伤者。一名目击者称,他认为主要医院的太平间里已有不下100具尸体。Mark Doyle在卡诺报道。
All day long, people have been stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">streaming">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">streaming towards the mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary of the main hospital in Kano to look for the bodies of loved ones so they can be taken for burial. The majority of victims appeared to be civilians, but there were some uniformed police officers among the dead as well.
一整天都有人群涌向卡诺主要医院的太平间寻找亲人的尸首,好运回去埋葬。看来主要的受害者都是平民,同时也有一些便衣警察遇难。周五的系列爆炸主要以警站、一处护照办事处等政府大楼为袭击目标,这是穆斯林极端组织博科圣地对尼日利亚该州实施的最致命袭击。尘埃在卡诺落定后,该市各地都设置了武装警察和部队检查站,同时加强了其他安全措施。
The series of explosions on Friday evening targeted police stations, a passport office and other government buildings. It was one of the deadliest blows the radical Islamist group Boko Haram has delivered against the Nigerian state. As dusk fell over Kano, armed police and army checkpoints were being set up across the city, and other security measures tightened up.Islamist parties have secured an overwhelming victory in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since the downfall of President Mubarak a year ago. The final results showed that the Muslim Brotherhood had won over 40% of the seats. The hard-line Islamists, known as Salafists, came second. Jon Leyne reports from Cairo.
伊斯兰党在埃及议会选举中赢得压倒性胜利,这是自总统穆巴拉克倒台以来埃及的首次选举。最终结果显示,穆斯林兄弟赢得40%的席位,被称为Salafists的伊斯兰极端主义党派位居第二。Jon Leyne在开罗报道。
More than 80 years after they were founded, the Islamists, or the Muslim Brotherhood, are on the verge of power in Egypt after a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections. They had been putting themselves forward as pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatists">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatists by contrast with the more hard-line Islamists, known as Salafists, whom they beat into second place. Under Egypt's presidential system, it's still up to the army and the new president when one is elected to nominate the government, so the winners of this election don't automatically take office.
穆斯林兄弟党已成立80多年,如今在议会选举中大获全胜,即将大权在握。他们意在成为实用主义者,与更极端的伊斯兰党,即位于第二的Salafists签署协议。但根据埃及的总统制,还要靠军队和新选总统来任命政府,所以这次选举获胜,并不意味着就可以马上执政。
Angry protesters in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi have forced their way into the headquarters of the transitional government after besieging the building for hours. Witnesses said the protesters used stones and iron bars to break into the offices. Earlier, they threw homemade grenade">grenade">grenade">grenades">grenade">grenade">grenade">grenades. Benghazi, which was at the heart of the rebel uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, has seen ongoing protests for several weeks. The transitional government is accused of failing to provide transparency or justice.
在利比亚东部城市班加西,愤怒的抗议者包围过渡政府办公楼数小时后,开始破门而入。目击者说,抗议者用石头和铁棍打破办公室大门。早些时候,他们还投掷自制的手榴弹。班加西曾是推翻卡扎菲的叛军起义的中心,如今这里已持续数周的抗议仍在进行。民众指责过渡政府不透明、不公正。
Voting is taking place in South Carolina, the latest leg of the battle for the Republican candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy in the US presidential election with opinion polls promising a surprisingly tight contest. The front-runner until now, Mitt Romney, appears to be neck and neck with Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who's emerging as the latest champion of the party's conservative right wing. The chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, Chad Connelly, told the BBC that voters in his state were always unpredictable.
南卡罗来纳州正在进行投票,这是共和党美国总统候选人决赛的最后一站,民意测试表明,这次决赛出人意料地激烈。目前的领先者罗姆尼,看来与白宫前发言人Newt Gingrich不相上下,Gingrich是该党保守派右翼最新杀出的黑马。南卡罗来纳州共和党主席Chad Connelly告诉BBC,南卡罗来纳州的选票投票意向意向难以预料。
"I've been saying, you know, since the beginning, this will be a real race. Don't try to box in South Carolina voters. They're going to surprise you. This is a typical primary for us, and as much as the national media or the narrative was, you know, this thing or that thing, you just can't tell it on the ground. South Carolina voters are fiercely independent. They want to make their own decisions."
“从一开始我就在说,这将是次真正的角逐。不要为难南卡罗来纳州的选民,他们会让你大吃一惊的。在我们看来,这次初选很特别,不管国家媒体或评论员怎么说,这个是无法预测的。南卡罗来纳州的选民非常独立,他们希望自己决定投谁。”
About 100,000 people in Hungary have marched through the centre of the capital Budapest in support of the Prime Minister Viktor Orban.He's come under heavy criticism at home and from the European Union for adopting laws seen as endangering democracy. Many on the march carried banners in foreign languages appealing to Brussels and other European capitals to respect Hungarian sovereignty.
10多名匈牙利人走上首都布达佩斯市中心支持总理Viktor Orban,Orban因颁布被视为危机民主的法律而深受本国和欧盟的批评。许多游行者手持外语书写的小旗,呼吁布鲁塞尔等欧洲首都尊重匈牙利的主权。
Africa's biggest football tournament, the Cup of Nations, has begun in Equatorial Guinea, which is co-hosting the event with Gabon. Equatorial Guinea won the opening match, beating Libya 1-0. Earlier, fans forced their way into the stadium as Alex Capstick reports from Bata.
非洲最大的足球锦标赛国家杯在赤道几内亚举行,协办本次比赛的国家还有加蓬。赤道几内亚以1比0打败利比亚赢得公开赛。早些时候,粉丝们蜂拥进入体育馆,Alex Capstick在巴塔报道。
It was mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem outside the ground as thousands of spectators tried to force their way through the one gate reserved for them to enter the stadium complex. Riot police attempted to push them back. Tear gas was fired into the air, but that only caused more confusion, and eventually the barriers were opened, and the fans flooded through. Security has become such an important issue at this tournament.
赛场外面一片混乱,数千名观看者设法进入为他们保留的唯一一扇大门进入场馆,防暴警察设法赶走人群,他们向空中发射催泪弹,结果场面变得更加混乱,最终人群冲破障碍,粉丝们鱼贯而入。
Memories are still fresh of the Togo team bus being attacked by gunmen in Angola two years ago.
安全问题成为本次比赛的重要问题,我们仍记得两年前,多哥队的车辆在安哥拉遭武装人员袭击。
A 16-year-old Dutch girl, Laura Dekker, has become the youngest person to sail around the world single-handed. She arrived in the Caribbean island of St Maarten a year and a day after she set sail. From The Hague, here's Anna Holligan.
16岁的德国女孩Laura Dekker成为单枪匹马进行全球航行年龄最小的人,她启程后的一年零一天后到达圣马丁的加勒比岛。Anna Holligan在海牙报道。
The voyage almost never happened. Truancy and child protection officers tried to stop Laura from setting sail on the grounds that she would miss too much school and that such a long trip wasn't safe for such a young girl. Eventually after a 10-month court battle and after agreeing to a checklist of safety measures, at 14, Laura was allowed to go. Now she said she'd rather not come back to the Netherlands because she feels the country stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifles">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifles her freedom.
这样的航行真是前所未有!逃学和儿童保护官员认为Dekker会耽误很多功课,而且对于她这么小的女孩来说,这样的长途旅行实在不安全,因此就设法阻止Dekker启程。经过10个月的法庭辩论,并签署了安全措施清单,14岁的Laura最终获准航行。如今她说,她觉得这个国家束缚了她的自由,还情愿不回荷兰呢!
Guinness World Records has refused to certify the voyage as it doesn't want youngsters putting their lives at risk.
因为不希望青少年冒生命危险,吉尼斯世界纪录拒绝鉴定这次航行。
第三页:词汇解析
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英汉解释
n. 溪流;流动;潮流;光线
vi. 流;涌进;飘扬
vt. 流出;涌出;使飘动
同义词
n.current,flow,watercourse
v.pelt,pour,pullulate,well out
参考例句
1. Bloodstream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">streams out of his mouth.
血从他的嘴角流了出来。
2. Astream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">streamtwines across the valley.
一条小溪蜿蜒流过山谷。
3. Not long after this, we reached a runningstream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream">stream.
不长时间后,我们到达一流动的小溪。
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mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary
英汉解释
n. 太平间;停尸间
adj. 死的;悲哀的
同义词
n.dead room,morgue
参考例句
1. Recently he appeared unofficially at themortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuaryof his colleague's mother, Han Jae Seok's mother, to express his condolences.
最近他非正式地出现于他的同事韩在石(韩宰硕)母亲的太平间,表达他的吊唁。
2. Ed: And uh, I've made the funeral arrangements with Flaherty and Sonmortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary. Be sure to ask for Flaherty senior, because Flaherty Junior is an idiot.
艾德:还有我已经和弗拉帝父子殡仪馆安排好了葬事,到时候一定要找弗拉帝,他的儿子是一个笨蛋。
3. Preserving the dignity of a dead king,mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuary">mortuarypriests placed the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in a solid gold coffin, which was nestled in a wooden coffin, which was tucked inside yet a third.
为维护帝王死后的尊严,祭司们把法老图坦卡门的木乃伊安放在一具坚固的黄金棺材里。黄金棺材底部的三分之一嵌入另一具木头棺材内。
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pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist
英汉解释
n. 实用主义者;爱管闲事的人
参考例句
1. One is a hard-workingpragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist, the other a mercurial idealist.
一个是不辞辛劳的实用主义者,另一个是反复无常的自由主义者。
2. This is one advocates the home of thepragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatistthat designs a style.
这是一个崇尚设计风格的实用主义者的家。
3. Providing an alternative to the now dominant paradigm of criticality, the authors proposed another way characterized as 襭rojective? which is both idealist andpragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist">pragmatist.
针对美国建筑学界主流的“批判性”态度,两位作者提出了另一种途径,这种途径的特征具有“投射性”,既是“理想的”,又是“实际的”;
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grenade">grenade">grenade">grenade
英汉解释
n. 手榴弹;灭火弹
vt. 扔手榴弹;用催泪弹攻击
参考例句
1. The pirates were said to be armed with guns and rocket-grenade">grenade">grenade">grenadelaunchers, and some escaped on speed boats.
听说海盗都武装有枪以及手榴弹火箭发射器,而最后一些藉由快艇逃走。
2. Grenade's wall - to - wall greenery extends right down the steep hillsides to some of the best beaches in the Caribbean.
格林纳达遍地的绿色草木顺著陡峭的山坡一直延伸到加勒比海的几个最好的海滩。
3. As the squad retreated, the crowd angrily followed them, and the guerrillas had to set off agrenade">grenade">grenade">grenadeto make their escape.
当我班撤退时,群众愤怒地跟着我们,游击战士们不得不引爆一枚手榴弹以逃脱。
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candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy
英汉解释
n. 候选资格;候选状态
同义词
n.campaigning,candidature,electioneering,political campaign
参考例句
1. For your convenience, I will call you next week to discuss mycandidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy.
如果您方便的话,我下周给您打电话来讨论我的候选资格。
2. His performance has been weaker than those who endorsed hiscandidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy, including this newspaper, had hoped.
他的表现没能达到当时支持他当候选人的那些人,包括报界的期望。
3. Human rights groups in Guinea say at least 157 people were killed protesting the expected presidentialcandidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacy">candidacyof military ruler Captain Moussa Camara.
几内亚人权组织声称,在抗议备受军政府总统候选人穆斯
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mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem
英汉解释
n. [法律]故意的伤害罪;重伤罪;蓄意的破坏
同义词
n.havoc
参考例句
1. Moretti had been involved in dozens of crimes ranging frommayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhemto murder, but no district attorney had ever been able to prove anything.
莫雷蒂与几十起残害人体以至谋杀的案件有牵连,可是没有一个地区检查官能抓到任何确凿的证据。
2. The weapons used in thatmayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhemand subsequent clashes were largely confined to hatchets, sticks, cudgels, knives, needles, toothpicks and pins.
在那场暴力和随后的冲突中使用的武器主要限于短柄斧、棒子、短棍、刀、针、牙签和大头针。
3. The blast in Pakistan's business center touched offmayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem">mayhem, with hundreds of people scrambling for safety. Witnesses and police said the streets were littered with body parts.
在巴基斯坦的商业中心发生的这起爆炸事件引发了混乱,数百人四处寻找安全之地。目击者和警察说,街道上到处都是人体的断臂残肢。
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truancy">truancy">truancy">truancy
英汉解释
n. 旷课,逃学;玩忽职守
同义词
n.hooky
参考例句
1. The schooltruancy">truancy">truancy">truancyproblem is worse than thought.
这显示学校的旷课问题比所想的严重。
2. Truancy is deliberate absence from class without the knowledge and consent of a parent/guardian/or teacher.
逃学是故意没有从阶级没有知情和同意的一个家长/监护人/或教师。
3. Meanwhile, her mother was left in charge of raising the young Maurice, who soon showed a troubling inclination towardtruancy">truancy">truancy">truancyand alcoholism.
同时,她的母亲留在提高青年莫里斯,谁很快就显示出一对逃学,酗酒等令人不安的倾向收费。
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stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle
英汉解释
vt. 扼杀;使窒息;藏匿
vi. 窒息;被扼杀
n. (马等的)后膝关节;(马等的)后膝关节病
同义词
n.knee
v.asphyxiate,dampen,muffle,suffocate
反义词
v.excite,stimulate
参考例句
1. I was nearlystifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifled by the smoke.
我差点让这些烟给憋死。
2. Study, drill and technique do notstifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifletalent. They free it!
学习,训练和技巧并不会限制天赋,它释放天赋。
3. What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, oftenstifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifle">stifledoing between them.
什么事应该做完了,什么事应该做,在它们之间经常是被扼杀的行动。