BBC News with Neil Nunes
Leaders of the bitterly divided American Congress are making last-minute attempts to stop significant new spending cuts and tax rises automatically taking effect on January first. Both houses are ready for rare Sunday sessions. They are trying to prevent the United States economy from falling off what been dubbed the fiscal cliff, the automatic imposition of some $600bn worth of taxing increase and spending cuts dating back to the Bush era. From Washington Jonny Dymond.
One nation with a very divided government. President Obama and congress are grappling for a deal with just 36 hours before time runs out. If there is no deal, the press of failure could be high. The average American family will see that tax rise by more than $2,000 a year. As money sucked out the economy, a second American recession is thought likely to begin. And confidence in the American government around the world would plummet. Financial markets would probably take fright.
Meanwhile President Obama says he will put his full weight to behind getting new gun control measures approved the United States within 12 months. Mr Obama expressed doubt about the idea put forward by the pro-gun lobby to position armed guards in every school.
I'm skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools. And I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem. And here is the bottom line, we're not going to get this done unless the American people decide it's important.
After the mass shooting in Connecticut earlier this month, in which 26 children and teachers were killed, President Obama said will task force to come up with urgent suggestions and how such massacres could be avoided in future.
The President of the Central African Republican Francois Bozize says he's ready to form a government of national unity with a rebel coalition that has seized several key towns in the country. Here is Mary Harper.
Mr Bozize who was speaking after a meeting with the head of the African Union Yayi Boni said he would not stand for re-election in 2016. He said he was ready for immediate talks with the rebel coalition. The rebel says they will consider the president's offer. After seizing a town on Saturday, just 150km from the capital, they are in a very strong position. The government army supported by troops from Chad, failed to contain the rebel advance, in some cases, abandoning towns without a fight.
A security forces in Lybia say an investigation is underway after a bomb blast at a Coptic Christian church, in which two people were killed. The explosion happened at Dafniya, near the city of Misrata, those dead were Egyptian. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians living and work in Libya.
World News from the BBC
One of Italy's foremost scientists, Rita Levi Montalcini who was a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine has died in Rome aged 103. She overcame Fascist and anti-Semitic discrimination before and during the second World War and went on to carry out a hugely important research into the development of the cells and the human body. Alan Johnston reports from Rome.
Rita Levi Montalcini was born into an intellectual and artistic Jewish family in 1909. She graduated from a medical school in Turin and went on to working academia. But her career soon ran fell of anti-Semitic laws introduced under Italy's Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini. With the coming of peace, she took her research forward at a university in the United States, there she made discoveries that shed light on the mystery surrounding abnormal cell development in humans.
A court in Bahrain has jailed two policemen for seven years for beating a man to death where he was held in police custody during the political unrest last year. They are among a number of officers on trial or under an investigation for allegedly torturing Shia detainees. Last month the international panel of legal experts accused the Bahraini security force of routinely using torture to punish or extracted confession from hundreds of Shia protesters. Bahrain's Interior minister rejected the allegations.
The Egyptian football association says their premier League matches will resume in February after a year suspension. It was agreed that game restart in February 1st, exactly a year after a riot that killed more than 70 people. The violence happened during a match in Port Said between the country's top teams, Al-Ahly and Al-Masry. None spectators are to be allowed into stadiums during the first season.
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第二页:重点词汇解析
surge">surge
英汉解释
n. 大浪;汹涌澎湃;巨涌
vi. 激增;汹涌
vt. 使颠簸
同义词
n.billow,rush,spate,upsurge">surge
v.heave,scend,soar,tide
反义词
v.ebb,ebb away,ebb down,ebb off
词汇辨析
wave,ripple,surge">surge
这些名词均有“波浪、浪、波涛”之意。 wave 普通用词,指水面上移动的任何具有峰谷皱形的波动,尤指距离相等的波浪,也比喻任何类似的物体。
ripple 多指微风吹过水面或石头投入水中所激起的涟漪或细浪。
surge">surge 词义较模糊,泛指巨浪、波涛或作比喻使用。
参考例句
1. The blazing magma was surging by us.
那会儿,炽热的岩浆正从我们的身边奔腾而过。
2. With calm andsurge">surgeas its theme.
平静与汹涌织成它的主题曲。
3. Surge Surge is the sudden rise in voltage in a system, usually caused by load disconnect.
突变突变是指系统中电压忽然升高,通常是由于负载断开而引起的。
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suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate
英汉解释
vi. 受阻,受扼制;窒息
vt. 压制,阻碍;使……窒息
同义词
v.asphyxiate,choke,gag,stifle
参考例句
1. In most fires many people got killed not because they were burned to death but because they weresuffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocated.
发生火灾时,在大多数情况下,许多人并非死于大火,而是死于窒息。
2. The baby willsuffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocateif the blanket is over his face.
毯子如果盖在小宝宝脸上,他可能会窒息。
3. Although pedestrian street training, but that really is a piece uniformssuffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocate">suffocatepeople, like a sauna in the enjoyment.
虽然在步行街训练,不过那件军服还真是闷死人,活像在享受桑拿。
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inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation
英汉解释
n. 接种;接木;接插芽
同义词
n.vaccination
参考例句
1. Role playing is just one part of anti-smokinginoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation.
角色扮演就是反对吸烟预防注射的一部分。
2. The melting velocity of inoculant in molten iron directly influences effect ofinoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculationtreatment.
孕育剂在铁液中的熔化速度直接影响孕育处理的效果。
3. Legumeinoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculation">inoculationwith rhizobia is a way to introduce large amounts of selected, superior rhizobia to the rhizosphere of legumes.
用根瘤菌接种豆类作物是一个将大量优选的根瘤菌引入豆类作物根际的方法。
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avert">avert">avert">avert
英汉解释
vt. 避免,防止;转移
同义词
v.debar,deflect,fend off,turn away
参考例句
1. She apologized toavert">avert">avert">averttrouble.
她因躲避困难而表示歉意。
2. Can Genetic Knowledge Avert Stress-Induced Depression?
遗传知识能防止应激抑郁吗?
3. But they didavert">avert">avert">avertdisaster and committed only a few big blunders.
但是他们的确避开了灾难,犯大错的次数也很少。
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poke fun
参考例句
1. He's even more willing topoke funat himself.
他现在甚至比较愿意自我解嘲了。
2. Never buy a pig in a poke.
东西没看清,不要急着买。
3. As a careless person, she always buy a pig in a poke.
她是位粗心大意的人,常常买些不值得的东西。 4. We allpoke funat her because she wears such a strange hat.
我们大家都笑她戴这么一顶古怪的帽子。 5. Be careful not to poke someone in the eye with your umbrella.
注意别把伞戳着别人的眼睛。
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topple">topple">topple">topple">topple">topple">topple">topple
英汉解释
vi. 倾倒;倒塌;摇摇欲坠
vt. 推翻;颠覆;使倒塌
同义词
v.tip,tumble
参考例句
1. The wrestlertopple">topple">topple">topple">topple">topple">topple">toppled his opponent.
那名摔跤手摔翻了对手。
2. They say it will not end quickly but those the objective were not to reoccupy Gaza ortopple">topple">topple">topple">topple">topple">topple">toppleHamas.
她们表达,战事不会很快结束,但目的并非要重新占领加沙,或者推翻哈马斯。
3. Again hard before person also cantopple">topple">topple">topple">topple">topple">topple">topple, this is worldly still have adamancy, can in distressed country I see?
原来再坚硬的人也会倒下,这世间还有坚强吗,在忧伤的国度我可以看见吗?
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highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight
英汉解释
vt. 突出;强调;使显著;加亮
n. 最精彩的部分;最重要的事情;加亮区
同义词
n.high spot,highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlighting
v.foreground,play up,spotlight
反义词
v.background,downplay,play down
参考例句
1. His remarkshighlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlighted his own function.
他的讲话突出了他个人的作用。
2. Swarmshighlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlightthe complicated side of real things.
群突出了真实事物复杂的一面。
3. The people behind the show say its goal is not to glamorize child marriage -- but tohighlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlight">highlightits dark side.
该节目的幕后人说其主要目标不是歌颂儿童婚姻——而是为了强调其阴暗面。