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Activists and officials in Syria say more than 80 people have been killed in a huge explosion at the University of Aleppo as students were sitting in exams. Activists and eyewitnesses say government aircraft bombed the building but the Syrian government blames rebel fighters. James Reynolds reports
Radio footage shows the facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade of one of the university's dormitories blown away. The pictures also show burned-out cars and bodies on the street outside. Syria state TV described the explosions at the University of Aleppo as a terrorist attack that’s the standard government description for any strike carried out by opposition forces. But no rebel group has claimed responsibility for the attack and opposition activists say that the government itself sent its own fighter planes to bomb the university’s grounds.
French warplanes have carried out further air strikes on rebel positions in Mali. They bombed a town of Gao, an important base for Islamists who’ve taken control of much of the north of the country. The French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says Malian government forces have yet to retake another town Konna whose capture last week by Islamists sparked the current crisis. Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
Konna is the town in central Mali whose capture by the advancing jihadists led to the first French airstrike in support of government forces. The French say that their action stopped the Islamist advance there but now the Defense Minister has said that the Malian army has yet to retake Konna. The significance of this is unclear but it does suggest that the Malian army does not have the capacity to take any advantage on the ground of the air support offered by the French. Meanwhile further to the west, Mr. Le Drian said that Islamists still occupied the town of Diabaly which they took on Monday and from where they’ve threatened to move further south towards the capital Bamako.
The American talk show host Oprah Winfrey says the disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced cycling champion Lance Armstrong didn’t come clean in the manner she expected as he addressed doping allegations during their interview. The cyclist has for years denied accusations that he used performance-enhancing drugs. But Oprah Winfrey told CBS television she was satisfied by Mr. Armstrong’s responses.
“I didn’t get all the questions asked but I think the most important questions and the answers that people around the world had been waiting to hear were answered.”
The World Anti-Doping Agency is insisting that Armstrong make a full confession under oath before seeking a reduction in his lifetime ban from elite sport.
The Cuban Health Ministry has confirmed the first outbreak of cholera">cholera">cholera">cholera in the capital Havana in more than half a century. Fifty one people have been infected so far and doctors had been going house to house in many areas to check for signs of sickness. The BBC understands one man died of cholera">cholera">cholera">cholera in Havana earlier this month but that hasn’t been confirmed by the authorities.
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The Pakistani Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of the Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on charges of corruption. Mr. Ashraf and 15 other officials are alleged to have received kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickbacks">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickbacks from private power companies when Mr. Ashraf was Minister of Water and Power. From Islamabad, here is Orla Guerin.
Pakistan’s beleaguered government is now under pressure on two fronts—from a mass protest on its doorstep in Islamabad and from the judges of the Supreme Court. Their order for the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf could hardly have come at a worse moment for Pakistan’s leaders. The government said it was very unexpected and the timing should be noted. An aide to the Prime Minister went further, accusing Pakistan’s powerful military of engineering both the protest movement and the court ruling.
A court in Bangladesh has formally charged the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed with corruption. The charges alleged that she abused her powers while she was in office between 2001 and 2006. If she were to be convicted, she’d be unable to contest in next year’s general elections.
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The mayor of a town on the Italian Island of Sicily has apologized to victims of the mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia. The town of Corleone is infamous for its gangster connections and produced one of the mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia’s most brutal bosses Toto Riina known as ‘The Beast.’ Although the mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia still has a presence in the town, it’s no longer the force it once was there.
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第二页:重点词汇解析
facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade
英汉解释
n. 正面;表面;外观
同义词
n.frontage,frontal,window dressing
参考例句
1. Her honesty was all afacade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade.
她的诚实只是一种表面现象。
2. The blast heavily damaged UN offices and partially ripped thefacade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facadeoff a government building.
爆炸摧毁了联合国办公大楼,并使得一座政府大楼的正面脱落。
3. Simulates and analyses the velocity and temperature fields inside the external respiration double skinfacade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facade">facadeof a building.
对某建筑外呼吸双层通风玻璃幕墙内的速度场和温度场进行了模拟分析。
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disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced
英汉解释
adj. 失宠的;遭贬谪的
v. 耻辱;贬谪(disgrace的过去式和过去分词)
同义词
a.discredited,dishonored,shamed
参考例句
1. They havedisgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgracedthe whole school.
他们给整个学校都丢了脸。
2. "He who dies rich, diesdisgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced, "he often said.
他经常说:“死时富裕的人是死的可耻的”。
3. This is quite shocking! —— He deserves to be publiclydisgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced">disgraced.
这真是骇人听闻!应该公开地叫他丢丢脸。
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cholera">cholera
英汉解释
n. [医]霍乱
同义词
n.asiatic cholera">cholera,epidemic cholera">cholera,indian cholera">cholera
参考例句
1. Cholera is a bacterial infection generally spread through water or food.
霍乱是一种细菌感染,一般通过水或食物传播。
2. Cholera as well as viruses like those that cause influenza and AIDS infect these areas.
霍乱也像引起流感和艾滋病的那些病毒一样感染这些组织。
3. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibriocholera">cholerae.
霍乱是由摄入受霍乱弧菌这种杆菌污染的食物或水引起的一种急性肠道感染。
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kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback
英汉解释
n. 回扣,佣金;[俗]强烈反应;退回赃物
参考例句
1. Everyone who paid will receive akickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback.
每一个交了钱的人部可以得到回扣。
2. Partition setting winding corotation andkickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback.
分段设定绕线正,反转。
3. In certain situations, donating your medical services could be considered akickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback">kickback.
在一定情况下,提供医疗服务应考虑到反扑。
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soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot
英汉解释
n. 煤烟,烟灰
vt. 用煤烟熏黑;以煤烟弄脏
同义词
n.carbon black,crock,lampblack,smut
参考例句
1. As black assoot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot, And notsoot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot.
像煤烟一样黑,而不是煤烟。
2. And ink fromsoot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">sootand spit.
墨水用煤灰和唾液来做。
3. The children looked like Negroes; their faces were smeared withsoot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot">soot.
这些孩子看起来像黑人,其实他们脸上抹着煤灰。
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particle">particle
英汉解释
n. 颗粒;质点;极小量;小品词
同义词
n.atom,corpuscle,molecule,subatomic particle">particle
词汇辨析
molecule,atom,particle">particle,speck,grain
这些名词均有“粒,微粒”之意。 molecule 指物质中保持原物质的一切化学性质,能独立存在的最小微粒,即分子。
atom 指元素的最小粒子,其体积比molecule小。
particle">particle 指任何物质的微粒,引申指任何小的部分。
speck 一般指“微点”或“微粒”,可引申指“斑点、污点”。
grain 通常指能为肉眼清楚看到的颗粒,比上述几个词所表“粒”的体积大。
参考例句
1. Particle physics was an area where creative work could still be done.
粒子物理学是一个还可以做创造性工作的领域。
2. To make an airplane contrail, you need water and some kind of microscopicparticle">particlefor the water to condense around.
创造一条飞机的轨迹,你需要一些水和一种能让水在它周围凝聚的各种微小粒子。
3. To display them create another object with the Particle fluid type, explained below, that uses the same bake directory as the domain.
显示他们用粒子流体型态产生另外的一个物体,在下面解释,领域使用同一的烘焙目录。
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mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia
英汉解释
n. 黑手党;(意)秘密政党
同义词
n.cosa nostra,maffia,sicilian mafia">mafia">mafia">mafia
参考例句
1. Themafia">mafia">mafia">mafialiquidated the informer.
'黑手党'。''清算了告密者。
2. NEXT: How the drug experiments helped bring about the rebirth of themafia">mafia">mafia">mafiaand the French Connection.
下章:药物实验如何帮助促使黑手党新生以及和法国的联系。
3. The leaning tower was reportedly one of the targets of a string of bombings carried out by the Sicilian Mafia in 1993 though it was not hit.
据报道,在1993年西西里黑手党制造的一连串爆炸事件中,比萨斜塔是攻击目标之一,但是斜塔没有遭到袭击。