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The French president Francois Hollande says he will strengthen security inside France against possible retaliation by Islamist groups to French military operations in Mali and Somalia. He said there'd been increased surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance in public buildings and transport. French forces in Mali have continued air strikes against Islamist militants and Mr. Hollande said the mission wasn’t over. Meanwhile in Somalia one French solider is known to have died during a failed attempt to rescue a hostage, another is missing. From Pairs Hugh Schofield.
The operation to free the hostage in Somalia is an acknowledged failure. Still President Hollande said that even though the raid had not achieved its objective, it did show that France would not give in to terrorist blackmail. In his brief televised address, the President also warned that the botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botched">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botched mission in Somalia and continuing military action against Islamists in Mali meant a heightened threat of terrorist reprisals in France. “The fight against terrorism requires that we take all the necessary precautions here in France.”
It’s been a momentous couple of days for the President with simultaneous military actions on two sides of Africa, prove of a determination to project force and to take risks in the battle against Islamist militancy.
Air pollution in the Chinese capital Beijing has reached the worst level recorded in years. Official measures of air quality have far exceeded the point at which children and elderly people are advised to remain indoors. Damian Grammaticas reports from Beijing.
For days now a heavy smog has smothered Beijing. By Saturday afternoon, it was so thick you could see just a few hundred meters in the city center. Tower blocks vanished into the grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness. The air tasted of coal dust and vehicle fumes, two of Beijing’s main sources of pollution. Even indoors the air looked hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy. World Health Organization guidelines say average concentrations of the tinniest pollution particles should be no more than 25 mg/m3. In Beijing, the pollution there was over 400 by the city’s official readings and more than 800 according to a US embassy monitoring center.
The former Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman and the country’s foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg have won through to a runoff in the Czech Republic’s presidential election. They beat seven other contenders including the former prime minister Jan Fischer. From Prague Rob Cameron
With almost all of the votes counted, this election is now about two very different men. Milos Zeman is a hard-drinking, chain-smoking politician known for his witty putdown">putdowns">putdown">putdowns of his political opponents. Karel Schwarzenberg is a titled prince, 75 years of age but wildly popular amongst young urban voters and closely linked to the country’s first president, the late Vaclav Havel, in a sense he carries his legacy.
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Clashes have erupted again in Northern Ireland following a protest over the local council’s decision to restrict the number of days that British Union flag can be flown over Belfast’s city hall. Stones and fireworks were thrown and police responded with water cannon. Trouble broke out when loyalists who want stronger ties with Britain passed an Irish nationalists’ area.
Brazilian police have encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircled">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircled a building next to the Maracana football stadium in Rio de Janeiro which an indigenous community took over six years ago. The building, a former indigenous museum is meant to be demolished as part of preparation for next year’s World Cup, but indigenous leaders say they are prepared to defend their right to stay in the area.
Salvage experts say the wreck of Costa Concordia cruise ship will be removed from the waters off Italian island of Giglio by September at the latest. They made their promise on the eve of the anniversary of the disaster in which more than 30 people died. From Rome, here is Alan Johnston
The stricken ship lies capsized in what is a marine nature reserve cutting her up there could be hugely damaging to the local environment. So the plan is to lift the vessel upright, then refloats and tow her away to the mainland where she will be dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantled">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantled. It’s a vast engineering project and there’ve been delays. But giving the latest time schedule, officials said that it might be possible to remove the Concordia as early as June.
The Haitian president says the way international aid is distributed in Haiti isn’t working. Michel Martelly was delivering a speech to mark the third anniversary of the earthquake that devastated much of the country. He said aid donors needed to cooperate more closely with the Haitian government which have directly received only a third of the aid pledged. Mr. Martelly said non-governmental agencies had spent most of the aid on emergency operations rather than reconstruction.
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第二页:重点词汇解析
surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance
英汉解释
n. 监督;监视
参考例句
1. The family can borrow thesurveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillanceequipment from the state.
这个家庭可以从政府借用监视设备。
2. We want to buy CCTV, Security Systems and Surveillance Equipment, Surveillance, Kmini Cam, Spy Cam.
我们要采购闭路电视,安全制度和监视设备,监视,凸轮,间谍凸轮。
3. Sourcesurveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillancesystem directory, delete files to add a directory, and file attributes are to conductsurveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance">surveillance.
系统目录监视源程序,对添加删除文件目录,和文件属性均进行监视。
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botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch
英汉解释
vt. 糟蹋;拙笨地修补;拙劣地拼凑
vi. 拙笨地修补;弄坏某事物
n. 难看的补缀;笨拙的修补;笨拙的工作
同义词
n.bloomer,flub,foul-up,fuckup
v.flub,fluff,foul up,fuck up
参考例句
1. He tried to repair my computer,but he reallybotch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botched it up.
他想把我的电脑修好,可他一修更糟了。
2. Description: Generally olive green body with characteristic redbotch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botchbehind the eyes.
形容:身体通常为橄榄绿色、眼后有显眼的红斑。
3. Well cloth, such by cloth art adornment innbotch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botch">botchis dropped, ms. Chen is very furious.
好好的布料,就这样被布艺装饰店糟践掉,陈女士非常生气。
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grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness
英汉解释
n. 灰色;(头发)灰白
同义词
n.gray,grey,greyness
参考例句
1. I could see the colors, not the faces. They stood in contrast to thegrayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">graynessand became, I thought, a busy human rainbow.
我看不清他们的脸庞,只能看到缤纷的色彩。这些色彩与灰暗的天色形成了对比,在我看来,繁忙的人流好似交织成了一道彩虹。
2. The man looked at thegrayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">graynessall around. "Where?" the man said. His voice, like the dead boy's, sounded like the whisper of dead leaves stirring.
这人看看四周的灰色,茫然地说:“哪儿?“,他的声音像死孩子一样,听起起来像干树叶磨擦发出的。
3. The flaking and variegated traces, the bright but humblegrayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">grayness">graynessaccord with the aspiration and imagination of female's self-awareness in the process of growing up.
剥落和斑驳的痕迹、明快不张扬的灰色调符合我们对女性自我意识萌长过程的期望与想象。
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hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy
英汉解释
adj. 朦胧的;模糊的;有薄雾的
同义词
a.bleary,brumous,foggy,fuzzy
参考例句
1. Thehazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazysky is that dawn or dusk?
这朦胧的天色,是黎明还是黄昏?
2. The people in the cafe and the busy street outside all disappeared into ahazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazyblur.
咖啡馆里和繁忙的街道上所有的人都消失在我视线中,我眼中一片模糊。
3. We can take the mysterious,hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazy">hazyfuture and carve out of it anything that we can imagine.
我们可以掌握神秘而不可知的未来,从中开创出我们所能想象的任何东西。
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putdown">putdown
英汉解释
n. 下拉,记下
参考例句
1. Raise /Putdown your hands, please.
请举/放下手。
2. Nerfs were introduced in The Empire Strikes Back as part of a lengthyputdown">putdownlobbed at Han Solo by Princess Leia, culminating in her calling him a "scruffy-looking nerf-herder."
纳福牛最早在《帝国反击战》中被提及,是莱娅公主在贬低汉·索洛时说出的单词之一,她在那句冗长的台词最后称汉·索洛为“邋遢的纳福牛牧民”。
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encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle
英汉解释
vt. 包围;围绕;环绕
同义词
v.circle,environ,gird,ring
词汇辨析
enclose,encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle,envelop,fence,surround
这些动词均有“包围”之意。 enclose 指把某物四周围住或封闭起来,使之与外界隔绝。
encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle 侧重在某事物周围围成圈状。
envelop 着重指把某个物体完全包起来或整个封起来。
fence 通常指用栅栏栏开或围起来。
surround 普通用词,既可指环绕、围绕,也可指军事上的包围。
参考例句
1. Treesencircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encirclethe house.
树木环绕在房子的四周。
2. At the heart of Michael's diplomacy was a policy designed toencircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encirclethe enemies of Byzantium.
米哈伊尔外交政策的核心就是如何应对拜占庭帝国周边的敌人们的。
3. But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each seasonencircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircle">encircleall other seasons.
但若是在你的意想里,你定要把时光分成季候,那就让没一季候围绕住其他的季候。
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dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle
英汉解释
vt. 拆除;取消;解散;除掉…的覆盖物
vi. 可拆卸
同义词
v.disassemble,level,pull down,strip
反义词
v.assemble,erect,piece,put up
参考例句
1. Wedismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantled the machine and shipped it in pieces.
我们拆开机器以零件运输。
2. Pack up the moon anddismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantlethe sun.
包装月亮起来并且拆除太阳。
3. Nowadays, many bikes are the combination type that you candismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantle">dismantlewhen not in use.
现在很多的自行车都是组合式的,不用时可以拆卸下来。