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The outgoing Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, appointed last year to prevent Italy coming to the Eurozone debt crisis will head an alliance of centrist parties in the country's upcoming elections. At a news conference, Mr Monti said he would prepare to lead a coalition supporting his reform agenda. David Willey reports from Rome.
Mr Monti who resigned earlier this month after 13 months in office, as head of the government of technocrats has now clearly thrown his head into the political ring in the general election due to be held at the end of February. After talks with leaders of the Center parties, Italy's former European commissioner made it clear that he will seek a second term. The election will be a three-way race between the Democratic Party, leading the polls at the moment, Silvio Berlusconi's Freedom Party which is trailing for other hand, and Mr Monti's center grouping which observers say could attract up to 15% of the vote.
President Obama has begun meeting Congressional leaders at the White House to try to reach a last minute deal to prevent the US falling off what's been dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dubbed">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dubbed the fiscal cliff. But there is growing doubts that the trigger for hundreds of billions of dollars in automatic tax rises and spending cuts can be avoided before the deadline of new year's day. From Washington here's is Zoe Conway.
There is increasing pessimism in Washington that the American can be safed from going over the fiscal cliff. Many people believed that Democrats and Republicans are too far apart on taxes and spending to reach a deal. And there is concern that apparent lack of urgency. The House of the Representatives is not backing session until Sunday night. The senate is open for business but it's not debating the fiscal cliff.
The Burmese government has announced that the private newspapers are to be allowed for the first time in decades, it follows the abolition of direct government media censorship in August. Our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head reports.
In a country with a rich intellectual past where electronic entertainment is still very basic, there is a great deal of printed material for sale in Burma. There are around 180 weekly magazines now filled with disgraced comment on Burma's political changes, but daily newspapers are still a state monopoly, that would change, according to a statement from the Information Ministry. From Februray next year, any Burme citizen can apply to publish a daily paper in any language.
Washington says it deeply regrets Russia's passing over a controversial law which bans Americans from adopting Russian children. The State Department said it was a political motivated decision which would reduce adoption possibilities for orphans. The measure signed into a law via President Putin, is a part of Moscow's retaliation against the American legislation that impose sanctions on Russian officials accused of human rights violations.
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Doctors treating an Indian woman who was gang raped in Dehli earlier this month say her vital signs are deteriorating. The doctors at a hospital in Singapore where she's been treated at the Indian government's expense said there were signs of severe organ failure. They say her families are by her side.
The Main opposition party in Ghana has filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the results of this month's presidential election which was won by incumbent John Mahama. Our African editor Mary Harper has this report.
The opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo said he had gone to court because of what he described as a mind-blowing evidence of electoral fraud. His party says there were problems with some 1.3 million votes enough to affect the overall outcome of the poll. The election observers, however, describe the poll as free and fair. The last time Mr. Akufo-Addo fought presidential election in 2008, he conceded defeat even though he lost by just one percentage point. Ghana is considered as one of the most stable democracies in Africa.
A judge in Chile has ordered the arrests of eight former army officers over the murder of a well-known left-wing singer Victor Jara, who was brutally killed days after the 1973 coup led by General Pinochet. The folk singer and political activist was arrested hours after the coup and taken to a stadium in Santiago where he was tortured and killed. Victor Jara's body was found days later in the streets of the Chilean capital with 44 bullet wounds.
Elderly parents in China are being given the right to sue their children if they don't visit often enough. The national legislature has amended laws to try to give some protection to old people who feel they are being neglected in a country with a rapidly aging population. Chinese children could face legal action if they don't visit often enough, although there's no guidance as to how often that should be.
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第二页:重点词汇解析
dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub
英汉解释
vt. [电影]配音;轻点;打击;授予称号
n. 笨蛋;鼓声
同义词
v.knight,nickname
参考例句
1. Idub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dubthee Sir Lancelot.
我封你为兰斯洛特骑士。
2. A new canal is beingdub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dubin that province.
一条新的运河正在该省开凿。
3. Their ability to grab goals on the break, even if Arsenal had been under pressure, led some observers todub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dub">dubthem lucky.
在阿森纳场上被动的情况下,他们在反击中获得进球的能力让一些评论员认为阿森纳只是走运。
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plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet
英汉解释
n. 铅锤,坠子
vi. 垂直落下
同义词
n.plumb,plumb bob
v.plump
参考例句
1. The damaged airplaneplummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummeted towards the earth.
受损的飞机一头朝地面栽去。
2. In bad years revenuesplummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummetand the budget cracks open.
年景不好的时候,收入剧减,预算“鸿沟”出现。
3. And with an astonishing discovery made earlier this year, the cost of superconducting cable might soonplummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummet">plummetfurther.
由于今年早些时候的一项惊人发现,超导电缆的成本可能很快还会大幅下降。
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lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby
英汉解释
n. 大厅;休息室;会客室;游说议员的团体
vt. 对……进行游说
vi. 游说议员
同义词
n.entrance hall,foyer,pressure group,third house
v.buttonhole
参考例句
1. They arelobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobbying for their own proposals.
他们在为自己的提议进行游说。
2. And if those sad souls down in thelobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobbyask for me.
要是那些饭店大厅的悲惨灵魂问起了我在哪里。
3. A very thin man met a very fat man in the hotellobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby">lobby.
在旅馆大厅里,一个非常瘦的人遇到了一个非常胖的人。
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contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain
英汉解释
vt. 包含;控制;容纳;牵制(敌军)
vi. 含有;自制
同义词
v.comprise,control,hold,take
词汇辨析
contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain,include,embrace,involve,comprehend,hold,comprise
这些动词均含有“包括,包含”之意。 contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain 普通用词,所涉及的物体常常是其组成部分或内容。强调包容关系。既可指具体有形的东西,也可指抽象无形的东西。
include 普通用词,指一整体包含着各独立的部分,也指某东西包含另一东西的某一部分。
embrace 正式用词,指把某事物纳入整个之中。
involve 把包含因整体的性质决定的成分或结果。所包括的往往是无形的,不可触知的东西,多用作引申。
comprehend 正工用词,指包含在整体范围以内。
hold 常和contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain换用。指能够容纳或有足够的容纳量。强调包容能力。
comprise 书面用词,暗指一个整体包括不同部分所组成,可与include交换使用。
参考例句
1. The bowlcontain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contained a variety of fruit.
这个碗里盛着各种各样的水果。
2. An adult should be able tocontain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">containoneself.
一个成年人应当能够控制自己。
3. An adult should be able tocontain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">contain">containhimself.
一个成年人应当能够控制自己。
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anti-semitic
英汉解释
adj. 反对犹太人的;排犹的
同义词
a.antisemitic
参考例句
1. Disturbinganti-semiticincident at Yale: What's happened to tolerance on campus?
令人不安的反犹事件在耶鲁:什么发生的宽容的校园呢?
2. When five Bush advisory committee members were accused of anti-Semitic activities, the campaign dropped them in a flash.
当布什顾问委员会的五名成员被指控反犹活动时,竞选委员会立刻将他们解聘。
3. South of the border, the Nazi military dictatorship rounds up England's Jews, supported by local anti-Semitic collaborators.
在苏格兰以南,纳粹军事独裁政府在当地合作者的帮助下围捕英格兰的犹太人。
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academia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academia
英汉解释
n. 学术界;学术生涯
同义词
n.academe
参考例句
1. Throughacademia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academiaand industry to understand, I realize that this area of biochemistry is the key.
通过对学术界和工业界的了解,我认识到生物化学是这个领域的关键。
2. This is partly because these first principles endure long enough to find their way fromacademia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academiainto policymaking circles.
部分是由于这些首要原则已经历了足够长的时间,已经从学术界进入了决策圈。
3. Along the way, many core assumptions about the merits of globalization, markets, risk, and debt, long taken for granted in business, government, andacademia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academia">academia, have come into question.
一路上,关于全球化价值的许多核心假设,已经成为政府和学术界讨论的问题,而市场、风险和债务被认为是理所当然的。
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confession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confession
英汉解释
n. 忏悔,告解;供认
参考例句
1. I have aconfession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confessionto make .
我有一件事得向你坦白。
2. It takes bravery to write aconfession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confession, because I am who I am.
要写忏悔录需要一定的勇气,因为原来我是这样的人。
3. During Lent, we encourage everyone to go toconfession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confession">confessionto purify your soul, to mend our relationship with God, to prepare us for Jesus' resurrection.
在四旬期间鼓励各位藉著修和圣事洁净自己的心灵﹐修好跟主的关系﹐来迎接耶稣基督的死而复活。
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spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator
英汉解释
n. 观众;旁观者
同义词
n.looker,spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator pump,viewer,watcher
参考例句
1. There is nospectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectatorin life.
在生活里是没有观众的。
2. LOCOG will send everyspectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectatorwho book game tickets with a customized bus route for him/her arrive the competition venue from his/her home.
奥组委还将向每位订票观众发送一条“量身定制”的乘车路线,从每个人的家门口一直到达比赛地点。
3. In the process, football changed irrevocably from a gentleman's weekend exercise to the greatestspectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectator">spectatorsport in the history of the human race.
在这个过程中,足球从一项有身分人的周末锻炼不可逆转的变成人类历史上最吸引观众的运动。