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The French air force has bombed the key town in the north of Mali on the third day of operations against the Islamists groups that control the north of the country. The French defence ministry said fighter jets had hit training camp and infrastructure. French said neighboring Algeria had given French planes free access to its air space to reach Mali. Here's Andrew Harding.
The lasted air strikes targeted a place called Gao - one of the main towns in northern Mali and an important base for Islamists fighters. Eyewitnesses said the airport and several sites were hit and many rebels had now abandoned the town. Gao is about 400km behind the current frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontlines">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontlines in central Mali, where heavy fighting earlier this week prompted a dramatic intervention by French forces. It seems clear that French air power is not preparing the ground for a much bigger offensive, but most of the fighting is expected to be done by troops from Mali and from the neighboring West African countries.
Four hundred thousands of people have attended a rally in Paris to protest against plans by the French President to legalise same sex marriage and adoption. Parliament is due to consider the measures. President Hollande wants the law enacted by June. Hugh Schofield is in Paris.
The organisers who include a flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant actress going by the stage name Frigide Barjot are determined not let themselves be typecast">typecast">typecast">typecast as homophobic, so there has been strict vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting of slogans and banners. They say that instituting gay marriage as opposed other forms of legal union would be playing source as apprentice with society. They hate the idea of the French civil code has been changed to replace the words of mother and father with parent. The opponent wanted a referendum but despite this impressive turnout they are unlikely to get it.
Syrian opposition activists say at least nine people have been killed by government force bombarding rebel held areas near Damascus. An unverified video footage posted online showed the dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismembered">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismembered bodies of what appeared to be several children in the field in the suburb of Hazzeh.
The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been granted retrial on charges of failing to prevent the death of hundreds of demonstrators during the revolt that forced him from power. He was sentenced to life imprisonment last June. The appeal court's decision prompted celebrations by Mr Mubarack's followers. From Cairo Here is Aleem Maqbool.
Hosni Mubarak's supporters outside the appeal court in Cairo do have something to cheer about. This is not just an appeal against his sentence but against the conviction on charges he failed to stop the killing of around 850 protesters during the uprising. When he faced trial at the first time, families of the victims were disappointed that he wasn't found guilty at more serious charge of ordering the killings and that he was sentenced to death. Now there is a possibility he could be acquitted entirely.
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The Finance Minister of Iraq has survived in an apparent assassination attempt. The minister, Rafa al-Essawi was travelling in a convoy in west Baghdad when a roadside bomb went off, no one was hurt. Mr al-Essawi is at the centre of a political crisis that seen mass protests by Iraq's Sunni minority against the Shia Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Venezuela's most senior political leaders are in Cuba to visit President Hugo Chavez who still in a serious condition after his forth cancer operation a month ago. The vice-president and a speaker of the National Assembly had met in Havana with the Cuban leader Raul Castro.
Scientists researching some of the earliest tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod creatures to walk the earth have made a startling discovery that our previous understanding of their anatomy was back-to-front. Here is our science reporter Rebecca Morelle.
These primitive four-legged animals were the first creatures to hold themselves out of the oceans, paving the way for all future life on land. Studying their anatomy is vital to understanding these, but it seems we've had it all wrong. Scientists created a detailed computer reconstruction and they discovered their backbones were back-to-front from what we understood, parts of the spine thought face the fronts of the animal in fact face the back and vice versa. The findings gave us more clues about how the breeds start base physically made the transition from water to land.
Stars of film and television will be walking the red carpet later at one of the Hollywood's biggest award ceremonies - the Golden Globes. Director Steven Spielberg's presidential biopic Lincoln has been nominated for seven prizes putting it ahead of Ben Affleck's hostage drama Argo and Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained, both of five nominations, while few films are contenders the best movie award along with Life of Pi, by Ang Lee and Kathryn Bigelow's film Zero Dark Thirty.
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第二页:重点词汇解析
frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline
参考例句
1. Soldiers in thefrontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontlineoften have to go into battle first.
在前线的士兵们通常得第一个上战场。
2. throwing hand grenades and firing on the run, soon we were past theirfrontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline.
同时扔出手榴弹并且边跑边射击,就这样我们冲过了德国人的散兵线。
3. The idea is that away from thefrontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline, soldiers can swop stories and wind down with those who understand their immediate problems.
这一理念就是让战士远离前线,使他们能交换各自情况,能与理解他们心情的人取得联系。 4. No. FRONTLINE supplies your pet with protection if fleas simply come into contact with your pet's coat within the post-application time periods mentioned above.
不用。蚤不到有提供您宠物的保护层,若是跳蚤在以上提到的警戒期间内只接触到您宠物的外层披毛也是。 5. During the 44 years since its foundation, IEE has been fighting in thefrontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontline">frontlineof basic research and high-tech strategic development for electrical engineering discipline.
创建44年来,一直承担着电工学科重大前沿基础研究和战略高技术发展的任务,对大电机、高电压、电力系统自动化以及电气测量等关键技术问题,进行了深入研究;
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flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant
英汉解释
adj. 艳丽的;火焰似的;炫耀的
n. [植]凤凰木
同义词
n.delonix regia,flame tree,peacock flower,poinciana regia
a.aureate,florid,unrestrained
参考例句
1. The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but aflamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyantphrase.
不相信的人将会说,它们只不过是空话、是口号,是一种华丽的辞汇。
2. What you see: You have a large or colorful mole. (And we don't mean aflamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyantdouble agent.
现象:你有一个很大或是有颜色的痣。(我们并不是说那种鲜艳的双重间谍。)
3. Pierpont Morgan, perhaps the mostflamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyant">flamboyantof the entrepreneur, operated on a scale of magnificence.
皮尔庞特·摩根或许是企业家当中最阔气的。他的经营规模庞大。
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typecast">typecast
英汉解释
vt. 浇铸;使(演员)一再演出同类的角色
同义词
v.type
参考例句
1. AS EVERY actor knows, it is easy to betypecast">typecast.
每个演员都清楚,在电影中扮演一个固定类型的角色会容易得多。
2. He says he will continue taking roles that challenge him and is determined to avoid beingtypecast">typecast.
他说他将继续出演具有挑战性的角色,并决心避免成为定型演员。
3. Yet for the most part, on this planet we aretypecast">typecastas either hairless dweebs with foreheads like watermelons, or else giant insects who want to eat you.
但是在这颗星球上,我们多半被描写成秃头的学究,额头鼓起,像西瓜一样;要不然就被说成是想要吃掉人类的巨型昆虫。
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vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting
英汉解释
n. 审查,审核
参考例句
1. American police will step up training andvetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vettingof their counterparts.
美国警方将加快对墨西哥警察的核查和培训。
2. These funds are being allocated to the member companies of Dubai Inc by a Financial Support Fund, which isvetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vettingthe companies' business plans.
这些资金将通过一个金融支持基金会分配给迪拜控股公司的成员,这个基金会正在审批各公司的商业计划。
3. This timevetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vetting">vettingis more thorough, training lasts three weeks instead of one, pay is higher, and AP3 units are promised mentoring and close support by American forces.
这次将会进行更彻底的审查,并且对成员进行为期3周的培训,高薪酬会让AP3单位的指导更多是为了支持美国不对。
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dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember
英汉解释
vt. 肢解,割断手足;分割,瓜分
同义词
v.discerp,take apart
参考例句
1. The conglomeratedismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismembered the business.
那家联合大企业分割了这个商行。
2. And you don'tdismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismemberthat by a couple of airplanes flying into buildings.
你不会因为一头撞入高楼的那两架飞机而改变主意。
3. You saved my life, the boss uttered in pain. For a moment, I though he mightdismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismember">dismemberme with his knife.
你救了我一命,老板忍着痛对勇士说,刚才,我在想他可能会用刀子把我大卸八块吧。
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tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod
英汉解释
n. 四足动物
adj. 四足动物的
参考例句
1. ZnO whisker, the onlytetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod-shaped whisker among all kinds of whiskers, possesses good comprehensive properties.
氧化锌晶须是一种立体四针状单晶体微纤维,其原料来源广泛,成本低廉。
2. Although biologists can easily induce extra limbs to grow on the flank of atetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod, this cannot be done in the neck.
虽然生物学家能轻易让四足动物在侧腹长出额外的肢,在颈部却做不到。
3. But the nickel disappearance is one more clue about how the planet went from suffocating to a place where a terrestrialtetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapod">tetrapodcould take a deep breath.
但是对于如何解释我们的地球从一个令人窒息的环境转变为一个让陆地四足动物可以自由呼吸的地方,镍的消失又提供了一个线索。
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back-to-front
参考例句
1. The front-and-back registration of gripper bars adds adjustable device, convenient to adjust the precision of front lay.
牙排的前后定位增加可调装置,以便调整前规精度;
2. A man-tapered shirt with yoke at front and back, a pointed collar, two patch pockets with flaps and fancy snap closures on front placket and cuffs.
前后幅都有育克的男装修长衬衫,尖领,两个有袋盖的明贴袋,且前中开口与袖口都以新潮按扣扣合。
3. A man-tapered shirt with yoke at front and back, a pointed collar, two patch pockets with flaps and fancy snap closures on front placket and cuffs.
前后幅都有育克的男装修长衬衫,尖领,两个有袋盖的明贴袋,且前中开口与袖口都以新潮按扣扣合。 4. Unusually deep front to back for a small lathe the saddle carried an almost boring-table sized T-slotted cross slide fitted with a "bridge bracket" at the front.
非常深刻的前向后一小车床进行鞍几乎镗表大小的T型槽交叉幻灯片装有“桥梁支架”在前面。 5. Brake disks are equipped in the front and back of the center differentials providing reliable braking power. Enables separate adjustment and setting of front and rear brakes.
制动盘都配备在正面和背面中心的差距提供可靠的制动能量。使单独的调整和设置的前方和后方刹车。