BBC news with Jerry Smit.
The Justice Ministry in Rome says the CIA’s former Milan station chief who’s been convicted by Italian courts has been detained in Panama. Robert Seldon Lady was sentenced in absentia for his role in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric, Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. Mr Nasr says he was transported to Egypt when he was tortured. David Willey reports from Rome. Robert Lady is one of the first Americans to be convicted anywhere in the world in connection with the extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary rendition program of the CIA. He’s technically a fugitive from Italian justice, having been convicted in his absence, and sentenced by an appeals court in Milan early this year to nine years jail, for taking part in a notorious kidnap ten years ago from a street in Milan of a Muslim cleric called Abu Omar. CIA has made no comment on the arrest and police in Panama say they have no information about Mr. Lady’s detention.
The city of Detroit has filed for bankruptcy, the largest city to do so in the United States. The city, nicknamed motor-city for its once great automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile industry has more than 18 billion dollars of debt. It’s seeking protection from its creditors, including large pension">pension">pension">pension funds and public sector workers.
The judge hearing the Court Martial of the American soldier Bradley Manning, who’s accused of passing thousands of documents to Wikileaks, has refused to throw out the most serious charge he faces aiding the enemy. The offense carries a mandatory life imprisonment. From Washington, Rajini Vaidyanathan reports. Bradley Manning admits he uploaded more than 700, 000 diplomatic cables and US military documents to the Wikileaks websites. But he denies he did this to help or assist terror">terror">terror">terror">terror">terror">terror">terror groups, such as Al Qaeda. Defense lawyer has been pushing for the charge to be dismissed, but the judge at the court room here of Fort Meade decided it should remain. She said the way in which Private Manning prepared and trained ahead of leaking the information backed up the government’s argument that he’d knowingly aided the enemy
In his first feature, Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour has vowed to restore security and stability">stability">stability">stability">stability">stability">stability">stability in the face of those, he said, who wanted to drive the country to chaos. James Reynolds reports from Cairo. This was Adly Mansour’s first national address as Egypt's interim President. In his speech, Mr. Mansour accused some people of wanting to drag Egypt into, what he called, the unknown. "Some want a bloody path", he warned, "we will fight a battle for security until the end", he promised. Mr. Mansour’s administration has outlined a path towards parliamentary and presidential elections within 6 months. But the main opposition movement here, the Muslim Brotherhood rejects this timetable.
News from the BBC.
Russian police have detained dozens of protest">protesters">protest">protesters following the five-year prison sentence imposed on the leading opposition activist Alexei Navalny. There were scuffles since thousands of people took to the streets in Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities for protest">protest">protest">protest that continued late into the evening. The White House described Mr. Navalny’s conviction from embezzlement as politically motivated, saying the judgment was an example of the Russian government suppressing dissent.
On a visit to Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, the US Secretary of State John Kerry has been confronted by several refugees, angrily demanding that the US set up a no-fly zone and safe havens in Syria. After a helicopter tour of the sprawling camp that holds some 115, 000 refugees, Mr. Kerry conceded that if he were in their shoes, he would be looking for help. “Well, I think they are frustrated and angry at the world for not stepping in and helping. I don’t think it’s a cut and dry, as simple as someone looked at. If I were in their shoes, I’d be looking for help from wherever I could find that.”
Police in Burma have arrested 6 people in connection with the killing of 10 Muslins in the western state of Rakhine last year, where a tension">tension">tension">tension between Muslin minority and Buddhist erupted into violence. Local sources said the 6 detainees were Buddhists, around 80 people died in the communal unrest.
A London law firm has publically apologized to the Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling for revealing that she’s written a detective novel under a pseudonym. The move follows a statement by Miss Rowling, in which she criticized the firm in withering terms, saying she was angry and that her trust in it has been misplaced. The company said the revelation had been made by one of its partners in a private conversation that somebody he said he trusted. The book has become a best seller after Miss Rowling’s authorship was made public.
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[00:00.10]BBC news with Jerry Smit.
[00:03.55]The Justice Ministry in Rome says the CIA’s former Milan station chief who’s been convicted by Italian courts has been detained in Panama.
[00:11.61]Robert Seldon Lady was sentenced in absentia for his role in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric, Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar.
[00:20.56]Mr Nasr says he was transported to Egypt when he was tortured.
[00:24.13]David Willey reports from Rome.
[00:26.35] Robert Lady is one of the first Americans to be convicted anywhere in the world in connection with the extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary rendition program of the CIA.
[00:37.32]He’s technically a fugitive from Italian justice,
[00:41.00]having been convicted in his absence, and sentenced by an appeals court in Milan early this year to nine years jail,
[00:48.27]for taking part in a notorious kidnap ten years ago from a street in Milan of a Muslim cleric called Abu Omar.
[00:56.89]CIA has made no comment on the arrest and police in Panama say they have no information about Mr. Lady’s detention.
[01:04.56]The city of Detroit has filed for bankruptcy, the largest city to do so in the United States.
[01:09.88]The city, nicknamed motor-city for its once great automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile industry has more than 18 billion dollars of debt.
[01:16.72]It’s seeking protection from its creditors, including large pension">pension">pension">pension funds and public sector workers.
[01:21.54]The judge hearing the Court Martial of the American soldier Bradley Manning, who’s accused of passing thousands of documents to Wikileaks,
[01:29.44]has refused to throw out the most serious charge he faces aiding the enemy.
[01:33.51]The offense carries a mandatory life imprisonment.
[01:36.43]From Washington, Rajini Vaidyanathan reports.
[01:39.71]Bradley Manning admits he uploaded more than 700, 000 diplomatic cables and US military documents to the Wikileaks websites.
[01:48.38]But he denies he did this to help or assist terror">terror">terror">terror">terror">terror">terror">terror groups, such as Al Qaeda.
[01:54.26]Defense lawyer has been pushing for the charge to be dismissed, but the judge at the court room here of Fort Meade decided it should remain.
[02:01.74]She said the way in which Private Manning prepared and trained ahead of leaking the information backed up the government’s argument that he’d knowingly aided the enemy
[02:12.29]In his first feature, Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour has vowed to restore security and stability">stability">stability">stability">stability">stability">stability">stability in the face of those, he said, who wanted to drive the country to chaos.
[02:22.20]James Reynolds reports from Cairo.
[02:24.59]This was Adly Mansour’s first national address as Egypt's interim President.
[02:30.59]In his speech, Mr. Mansour accused some people of wanting to drag Egypt into, what he called, the unknown.
[02:37.96]"Some want a bloody path", he warned, "we will fight a battle for security until the end", he promised.
[02:45.61]Mr. Mansour’s administration has outlined a path towards parliamentary and presidential elections within 6 months.
[02:52.66]But the main opposition movement here, the Muslim Brotherhood rejects this timetable.
[02:58.20]News from the BBC.
[03:00.13]Russian police have detained dozens of protest">protesters">protest">protesters following the five-year prison sentence imposed on the leading opposition activist Alexei Navalny.
[03:09.20]There were scuffles since thousands of people took to the streets in Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities for protest">protest">protest">protest that continued late into the evening.
[03:17.58]The White House described Mr. Navalny’s conviction from embezzlement as politically motivated,
[03:22.94]saying the judgment was an example of the Russian government suppressing dissent.
[03:27.52]On a visit to Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, the US Secretary of State John Kerry has been confronted by several refugees,
[03:36.39]angrily demanding that the US set up a no-fly zone and safe havens in Syria.
[03:40.89]After a helicopter tour of the sprawling camp that holds some 115, 000 refugees, Mr. Kerry conceded that if he were in their shoes, he would be looking for help.
[03:51.21]“Well, I think they are frustrated and angry at the world for not stepping in and helping.
[03:58.26]I don’t think it’s a cut and dry, as simple as someone looked at.
[04:02.77]If I were in their shoes, I’d be looking for help from wherever I could find that.”
[04:07.28]Police in Burma have arrested 6 people in connection with the killing of 10 Muslins in the western state of Rakhine last year,
[04:14.99]where a tension">tension">tension">tension between Muslin minority and Buddhist erupted into violence.
[04:19.43]Local sources said the 6 detainees were Buddhists, around 80 people died in the communal unrest.
[04:26.21]A London law firm has publically apologized to the Harry Potter author J.K.
[04:31.95]Rowling for revealing that she’s written a detective novel under a pseudonym.
[04:36.28]The move follows a statement by Miss Rowling, in which she criticized the firm in withering terms, saying she was angry and that her trust in it has been misplaced.
[04:45.31]The company said the revelation had been made by one of its partners in a private conversation that somebody he said he trusted.
[04:52.58]The book has become a best seller after Miss Rowling’s authorship was made public.
第三页:词汇解析
extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary
难度:3星常用词汇,属常用6000词
英汉解释
adj.非凡的;特别的;特派的
参考例句
用作形容词 (adj.)
He has anextraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinarymemory.
他有非凡的记忆力。
He is an a ministerextraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary.
他是一位特派部长。
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automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile
难度:3星常用词汇,属常用6000词
英汉解释
n.汽车
adj.汽车的
参考例句
用作名词 (n.)
There will be an exhibition of the development ofautomobile">automobile">automobile">automobileindustry in our country next week.
下星期将举办一个关于我国汽车工业发展的展览。
用作形容词 (adj.)
The cylinder is an important part forautomobile">automobile">automobile">automobileengine.
气缸套是影响汽车发动机性能的重要零件。
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pension">pension
难度:3星常用词汇,属常用6000词
英汉解释
n.养老金;退休金;抚恤金;年金;(欧洲等地的)私人小旅店
v.发退休金
参考例句
用作名词 (n.)
He's got nothing beyond his statepension">pension.
除了国家发的养老金,他一无所有。
用作动词 (v.)
He waspension">pensionedoff and replaced with a younger man.
他被迫退休,由一年轻人接替其职务。
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terror">terror">terror">terror
难度:2星扩展词汇,属常用10000词
英汉解释
n.恐怖;惊骇;<口>令人惧怕或讨厌的人或事物
参考例句
用作名词 (n.)
Her face worked as she stared at him interror">terror">terror">terror.
她惊恐地注视着他,脸也吓得抽动起来。
Histerror">terror">terror">terroris so great that he can do nothing.
他惊骇万分以致什么事都不能做。
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unity">unity">unity">unity
难度:3星常用词汇,属常用6000词
英汉解释
n.整体;统一;一致;结合
参考例句
用作名词 (n.)
These works, taken together, are essentially aunity">unity">unity">unity.
这些作品,放在一起,基本上是一个整体。
The meeting is seen as the first step towards greaterunity">unity">unity">unitybetween the parties.
这一会议可视为两党走向进一步联合的第一步。
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stability">stability">stability">stability
难度:3星常用词汇,属常用6000词
英汉解释
n.稳定性;居于修道院
参考例句
用作名词 (n.)
The government has taken a measure to maintain thestability">stability">stability">stabilityof prices.
政府已经采取了措施以确保物价稳定。
The question ofstability">stability">stability">stabilityof an equilibrium is very important.
一个平衡点的稳定性问题是非常重要的。
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protest">protest
难度:4星核心词汇,属常用3000词
英汉解释
n.抗议;反对
v.抗议;反对;申明;断言
参考例句
用作名词 (n.)
Half a million people held a massprotest">protestagainst racism last night.
昨晚50万人举行了大规模的抗议活动反对种族歧视。
用作动词 (v.)
Theyprotest">protestedto the mayor that the taxes were too high.
他们向市长提出抗议说税款过高。
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tension">tension
难度:4星核心词汇,属常用3000词
英汉解释
n.紧张;拉力;张力;紧张状态;[电]电压
vt.使拉紧;使绷紧
参考例句
用作名词 (n.)
A leather loop that slides to change thetension">tensionon the cord of a drum.
滑动皮环通过滑动以改变鼓弦张力的皮环
Tensionmounted as we waited for the exam results to be published.
我们在等待公布考试结果时气氛越来越紧张。
第四页:中英双语听力稿
BBC news with Jerry Smit.
Jerry Smit为你播报BBC新闻。
The Justice Ministry in Rome says the CIA's former Milan station chief who's been convicted by Italian courts has been detained in Panama. Robert Seldon Lady was sentenced in absentia for his role in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric, Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. Mr Nasr says he was transported to Egypt when he was tortured. David Willey reports from Rome.Robert Lady is one of the first Americans to be convicted anywhere in the world in connection with the extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary">extraordinary rendition program of the CIA. He's technically a fugitive from Italian justice, having been convicted in his absence, and sentenced by an appeals court in Milan early this year to nine years jail, for taking part in a notorious kidnap ten years ago from a street in Milan of a Muslim cleric called Abu Omar. CIA has made no comment on the arrest and police in Panama say they have no information about Mr. Lady's detention.
罗马司法部称被意大利法院判罪的中央情报局驻米兰前理事在巴拿马被捕。Robert Seldon Lady参与绑架一个名为Abu Omar的埃及牧师Hassan Nasr,法庭审判缺席时被判刑。Nasr说他被带到埃及拷打。罗马David Willey报道。Robert Lady是涉嫌中央情报局临时引渡计划而获罪的首批美国人之一,专业地说,他是意大利法院逃犯,缺席时获罪,因涉嫌10年前的米兰大街穆斯林牧师Hassan Nasr绑架案,在年初被米兰法院判九年监禁。中央情报局未对监禁作评论,巴拿马警方称没有收到Lady被捕的消息。
The city of Detroit has filed for bankruptcy, the largest city to do so in the United States. The city, nicknamed motor-city for its once great automobile">automobile">automobile">automobile industry has more than 18 billion dollars of debt. It's seeking protection from its creditors, including large pension">pension funds and public sector workers.
底特律已申请破产,这是美国申请破产的最大城市。该市因曾拥有强大的汽车工业又名汽车城,已欠下180亿美元以上的债务,正在寻求大型养老基金和公职人员等债权人的保护。
The judge hearing the Court Martial of the American soldier Bradley Manning, who's accused of passing thousands of documents to Wikileaks, has refused to throw out the most serious charge he faces aiding the enemy. The offense carries a mandatory life imprisonment. From Washington, Rajini Vaidyanathan reports. Bradley Manning admits he uploaded more than 700, 000 diplomatic cables and US military documents to the Wikileaks websites. But he denies he did this to help or assist terror">terror">terror">terror groups, such as Al Qaeda. Defense lawyer has been pushing for the charge to be dismissed, but the judge at the court room here of Fort Meade decided it should remain. She said the way in which Private Manning prepared and trained ahead of leaking the information backed up the government's argument that he'd knowingly aided the enemy
美国士兵Bradley Manning被指控上传了数千份机密文件至维基解密网,目前军事法庭的法官坚持进行最严重的通敌指控。这种罪行伴有强制性的终身监禁。华盛顿Rajini Vaidyanathan报道。Bradley Manning承认上传了超过70万个外交电报和美国军方文件至维基解密网。但他否认这是为帮助像基地组织一样的恐怖组织。辩护律师一直在努力解除这项指控,但米德堡法庭的法官决定继续指控。她说二等兵Manning在泄漏文件之前已做好准备和训练,这证实了政府的结论:他知道自己在援助敌人。
In his first feature, Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour has vowed to restore security and stability">stability">stability">stability in the face of those, he said, who wanted to drive the country to chaos. James Reynolds reports from Cairo. This was Adly Mansour's first national address as Egypt's interim President. In his speech, Mr. Mansour accused some people of wanting to drag Egypt into, what he called, the unknown. "Some want a bloody path", he warned, "we will fight a battle for security until the end", he promised. Mr. Mansour's administration has outlined a path towards parliamentary and presidential elections within 6 months. But the main opposition movement here, the Muslim Brotherhood rejects this timetable.
埃及临时总统Adly Mansour于首次演说中承诺,即使面对企图致使埃及混乱的人,政府也能恢复安定和稳定。开罗James Reynolds报道。这是Adly Mansour就职埃及临时总统后的首次全国演说,他指责有人企图致使埃及进入所谓的未知境地。“有人希望走血腥的道路,我们将为安定战斗到底。”Adly Mansour政府在6个月内制定出议会和总统选举的方式,但主要的反对派穆斯林兄弟会否定了该进程。
News from the BBC.
这里是BBC新闻报道。
Russian police have detained dozens of protest">protesters following the five-year prison sentence imposed on the leading opposition activist Alexei Navalny. There were scuffles since thousands of people took to the streets in Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities for protest">protest that continued late into the evening. The White House described Mr. Navalny's conviction from embezzlement as politically motivated, saying the judgment was an example of the Russian government suppressing dissent.
在主要反对派活动人士Alexei Navalny被判5年监禁后,俄罗斯警方逮捕了数十名抗议者。在莫斯科,圣彼得堡等城市,伴有混战的数千人街头抗议持续到晚上。白宫描述说Navalny被判贪污罪是出于政治原因,该判决说明了俄罗斯政府镇压异议。
On a visit to Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, the US Secretary of State John Kerry has been confronted by several refugees, angrily demanding that the US set up a no-fly zone and safe havens in Syria. After a helicopter tour of the sprawling camp that holds some 115, 000 refugees, Mr. Kerry conceded that if he were in their shoes, he would be looking for help. “Well, I think they are frustrated and angry at the world for not stepping in and helping. I don't think it's a cut and dry, as simple as someone looked at. If I were in their shoes, I'd be looking for help from wherever I could find that.”
美国国务卿John Kerry访问约旦的叙利亚难民营,几个难民愤怒地要求美国在叙利亚设立禁飞区和安全避难所。Kerry乘直升机在一大片居住着11.5万难民的难民营上空视察后,他承认如果自己是难民,也会寻求帮助。“我认为他们因全世界不涉入和不提供帮助感到沮丧和愤怒,这不是看起来那样是简单的预先安排。如果我是难民,也定会设法寻求帮助。”
Police in Burma have arrested 6 people in connection with the killing of 10 Muslins in the western state of Rakhine last year, where a tension">tension">tension">tension between Muslin minority and Buddhist erupted into violence. Local sources said the 6 detainees were Buddhists, around 80 people died in the communal unrest.
缅甸警方逮捕涉嫌于去年杀害西部若开邦10名穆斯林的6名嫌犯,穆斯林少数派和佛教徒的紧张局势在若开邦升级为暴力事件。当地消息称6名被捕者是佛教徒,约80人在动乱中死亡。
A London law firm has publically apologized to the Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling for revealing that she's written a detective novel under a pseudonym. The move follows a statement by Miss Rowling, in which she criticized the firm in withering terms, saying she was angry and that her trust in it has been misplaced. The company said the revelation had been made by one of its partners in a private conversation that somebody he said he trusted. The book has become a best seller after Miss Rowling's authorship was made public.
一家伦敦法律事务所因透露《哈利波特》的作者J.K. Rowling曾用笔名写过一部侦探小说,已向Rowling公开道歉。此前Rowling发表声明,稍稍批评该事务所辜负了自己的信任,她为此感到生气。公司称此消息是一名合伙人在和某个值得信任的朋友私下谈话中泄露。这本书在Rowling出名后开始畅销。
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