Boylan said the 2,000th service member to die in Iraq "is just as important as the first that died and will be just as important as the last to die in this war against terrorism and to ensure freedom for a people who have not known freedom in over two generations." terrorism恐怖主义 Generation一代人 He complained that the true milestones of the war were "rarely covered or discussed," and said they included the troops who had volunteered to serve, the families of those that have been deployed for a year or more, and the Iraqis who have sought at great risk to restore normalcy to their country. Covere报道 Volunteer志愿 Deploy部署，调动（在伊拉克） Iraqis伊拉克人 sought at（seek at）追求 restore恢复 normalcy常态 

　　The inaugural East Asia Summit will be held in Malaysia in December, when ASEAN members will meet China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Australia and New Zealand. 〕 　 Inaugura首届的，最初的 Malaysia马来西亚 New Zealand新西兰 On the basis of Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence, the two countries properly handle major problems concerning the other side, he said. Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence合平共处五项原则 Properly恰当地，合适地 Handle处理 Concerning关于 Hu also spoke highly of the growth of China-Singapore relations. Speak highly of 高度评价 Some 15 years after China and Singapore forged diplomatic ties, Hu said, bilateral relations see healthy and fast growth thanks to efforts made by both. Some大约 Forge缔结，形成 diplomatic ties外交关系 bilateral relations双边关系

China-Singapore economic relations also witnessed win-win results. The Chinese economy is compatible with the Singaporean economy so the mutually beneficial cooperation complies with the fundamental interests of the two, Hu said, adding that the economic cooperation has given impetus to the growth of bilateral ties. Witness见证 win-win双赢 be compatible with适合, 一致 mutually beneficial cooperation互利合作 comply with 符合 fundamental interests根本利益 impetus推动 bilateral ties双边关系 The two countries also scored progress in regional cooperation, through which the bilateral cooperation was enriched and promoted, Hu said. Score记录，见证 Enrich 加强 regional peace and prosperity地区和平和繁荣 Lee said the enhancement of bilateral and multi-lateral cooperation is in the interest of the two countries and conducive to regional stability and development, in particular in the backdrop of China's dynamic economic development and vigorous development of East Asia cooperation. multi-lateral多边的 conducive to 有益于 in the backdrop of在……的背景下 China's dynamic economic development中国经济的繁荣发展 vigorous development of East Asia cooperation. 东亚合作的富有活力的发展

Key Findings From U.N. Oil-For-Food Probe 联合国石油换食品计划调查结果出炉 The Independent Inquiry Committee issued a 623-page final report on corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program. Here is a look at its key findings. program. Here is a look at its key findings. Independent Inquiry Committee独立调查委员会 Inquiry咨询,调查 Corruption贪污,腐败 oil-for-food program.石油换食品计划 key findings主要结论 More than 2,200 of the 4,500 companies that participated in the program paid kickbacks or illegal fees to Saddam Hussein's regime, earning him $1.8 billion. participate in参与 Kickbacks回扣 Illegal非法的 Fees酬金 Regime政权

Name-brand companies accused of paying kickbacks include DaimlerChrysler, Siemens AG, Volvo Construction Equipment and Daewoo International. There are U.S. companies including Bayoil and Coastal Corp., and Russian oil giant Gazprom. Name-brand名牌 DaimlerChrysler戴姆勒•克莱斯勒 Siemens AG西门子 Volvo Construction Equipment沃尔沃 Banque Nationale de Paris S.A., known as BNP, was the bank that monitored the U.N. account that held oil money. It did not disclose fully to the United Nations that it knew of shady financial relationships and front companies that led to the payment of illegal surcharges. Banque Nationale de Paris S.A法国国家
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银行 Monitor管理,监控 Disclose揭露 Shady暗地的 Surcharge收费,罚款 Jean-Bernard Merrimee, France's former U.N. ambassador, received $165,725 in commissions from oil allocations awarded to him by the Iraqi regime. The report said Merrimee ultimately received allocations that totaled approximately 6 million barrels. France's former U.N. ambassador法国前任联合国大使 Commissions佣金 oil allocations石油份额 award授予,得到 Iraqi regime伊拉克政权 Ultimately最终 Approximately大约

Hu said at the meeting that China will continue to make concerted efforts with North Korea under the present international climate, to bring the two countries' friendship and cooperation to higher levels. concerted既定的,已协商的 international climate国际环境 Kim Yong-nam said North Korea will join China in making efforts to boost their traditional friendship and push forward bilateral cooperation. Boost增进 traditional friendship传统友谊 push forward推进 bilateral cooperation双边合作 On Friday afternoon, Hu had held talks with Kim Jong-il. They had in-depth exchanges of views on bilateral ties and international and regional issues of mutual concern. Hold talks with与^^^举行会谈 in-depth exchanges深入交换 bilateral ties双边关系 international and regional issues of mutual concern. 相互关心的国际和地区问题

The Tae-an Friendship Glass Factory, seen as a symbol of North Korea-China friendship, covers hundreds of thousands of square meters. All the main production processes and auxiliary facilities are equipped with the latest technologies. symbol标志 Cover覆盖,占地 production processes生产工艺和流程 auxiliary facilities辅助设备 be equipped with装备 the latest technologies最先近的技术 The factory, situated on the bank of the Taedong River, was designed with a daily production capacity of 300 tons of float-processed glass. Situate位于,座落于 daily production capacity日产量 float-processed glass.浮体加加工玻璃 It was commissioned on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea. A commissioning ceremony of the factory was held on the spot on October 9th. Commission 这里指的是”建成投产” Eve前夕 A commissioning ceremony建成典礼 Spot地点

3 New Delhi Explosions Kill at Least 58 Near-simultaneous explosions rocked the Indian capital Saturday evening, tearing through a bus and two markets crowded with people shopping for gifts for a Hindu festival. At least 58 people were killed and dozens Near-simultaneous连环的 wounded in the blasts, which the government blamed on terrorists. Rock震动 Teari撕破,重创 a Hindu festival印度教节日(排灯节) in the blasts在爆炸中 blamed on terrorists 谴责恐怖分子(即为将这些爆炸定为恐怖袭击) Police declared a state of emergency and closed all city markets. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged calm while denouncing the apparently coordinated bombings. declare发布 a state of emergency紧急声明 urge呼吁 calm冷静 denounce公开指责, 谴责 apparently蓄意地,显然地 coordinated bombings.有预谋的爆炸

Pakistan condemned the multiple attacks in New Delhi. Condemn谴责 multiple一系列 "The attack in a crowded market place is a criminal act of terrorism. The people and government of Pakistan are shocked at this barbaric act and express deep sympathy with the families of the victims," a Foreign Ministry statement said. express deep sympathy with深表同情 Ministry statement said. be shocked at 震惊 barbaric act野蛮行径 British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the blasts "appear to have been targeted at heavily populated areas to produce maximum carnage." maximum carnage最大的人员伤亡

"This is yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life," Straw added. "On behalf of the British government, I would like to offer the people of India my support and deepest sympathy." cynical愤世嫉俗的 callous无情的 disregard漠视 on behalf of代表... The first explosion hit New Delhi's main Paharganj market, leaving behind bloodstained streets and mangled stalls of wood and twisted metal. Within minutes came an explosion at the popular Sarojini Nagar market and the bus blast in the Govindpuri neighborhood. Police said at least 60 people were wounded in the first blast and dozens in the other two. Bloodstained血污的 Mangled损坏的 Twisted变形的 The attacks targeted the many people shopping just days before the festival of Diwali, a major Hindu holiday during which families exchange gifts, light candles and celebrate with fireworks. The markets where the blasts occurred often sell fireworks that are elaborate and potentially dangerous. Elaborate精心制做的 Potentially潜在的 Home Minister Shivraj Patil urged people to stay off the streets. "I appeal to you. Please disperse from the markets and go back to your families," he said in a televised address. Home Minister内政部长 stay off远离 appeal to呼吁 televised address电视讲话

Hu will hold talks with Manh and Luong , which are expected to cover "a wide range of issues," Kong said. China hopes the visit will play a due role in further implementing the consensus reached by leaders of the two countries, enhancing bilateral cooperation and uplifting bilateral ties to a new high, he added. held talks with与……举行会谈 Due预期的 Implement执行,贯彻 Consensus(达成的)共识,一致 enhancing bilateral cooperation加强双边合作 uplifting bilateral ties提升双边关系 Under the principle of "long-term stability, future orientation, good-neighborly friendship and all-around cooperation" set by leaders of the two countries, the Sino-Vietnamese relations have made remarkable progress in various fields over the past few years. Principle原则 long-term stability长期稳定 future orientation面向未来 good-neighborly睦邻友好 all-around全面的 Sino-Vietnamese relations中越关系 Remarkable显著的

南亚地震·上万人遇难 At least 18,000 killed in massive Asia quake "A national tragedy," says Pakistan Army spokesman after 7.6 temblor Updated: 2:43 a.m. ET Oct. 9, 2005 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A powerful earthquake triggered landslides, flattened entire villages of mud-brick homes and toppled an apartment building on Saturday, killing more than 18,000 people as it devastated a mountainous swath touching Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. trigger(v.):引发 触发 landslide(n.):塌方 flatten(v.):将..夷为平地 mud-brick(adj.):用泥砖搭建的 topple(v.):推倒 倾倒 devastate(v.):毁坏 mountainous swath(adj.):多山地带 Pakistan(n.):巴基斯坦 Afghanistan(n.):阿富汗 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Pakistan's private Aaj television reported the Pakistani death toll had jumped to 25,000. But the report, which included casualties in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, gave no source for its figures and there was no immediate confirmation from Pakistani officials but they have said the toll will rise. Aaj television(n.):巴基斯坦一电视频道 death toll(n.):死亡人数 casualty(n.):死亡人员 Pakistani-controlled Kashmir(n.):巴控克什米尔地区 immediate(adj.):迅速的 confirmation(n.):确认 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The casualty toll from the 7.6-magnitude tremor rose sharply Sunday as rescuers struggled to dig people from the wreckage, their work made more difficult as rain and hail turned dirt and debris into sticky muck. magnitude(n.):震级 tremor(n.):地震 震动 rescuer(n.):救援人员 wreckage(n.):残骸 hail(n.):冰雹 debris(n.):碎片 残骸(注意那个S是不发音的/'debri:/) sticky(adj.):粘稠的 muck(n.):垃圾 脏物 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ From AP [消息来源 美联社]

China's Space Program: A Chronology Oct. 8, 1956: China opens its first institute on missile and rocket research, the No. 5 Research Institute attached to the Ministry of National Defense, with Qian Xuesen, a Chinese scientist who returned from the United States, as the first director. Chronology 年表 attached to 从
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Ministry of National Defense 国防部 July 19, 1964: A biological rocket carrying albino rats is launched successfully from Guangde County in east China's Anhui Province, an important step forward in China's space exploration. albino白化病者, 白化变种

April 1, 1968: An institute for spaceflight-oriented medical engineering opens in Beijing, charged with conducting research into manned spaceflight. manned spaceflight. 载人航天 spaceflight-oriented 航天领域的 charge with 负责 April 24, 1970: China becomes the fifth country to send a satellite into orbit, as the DFH-1 scientific experimental satellite lifts off aboard a Long March rocket. DFH-1 东方红1号 lift off(火箭, 导弹等)发射, (直升飞机等)起飞 Long March rocket 长征火箭

日本反对党--民主党支持率上升 Poll: Opposition gains in Japan Sunday, August 28, 2005 Posted: 0329 GMT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Japan's main opposition party is narrowing the gap with the ruling Liberal Democrats ahead of the September 11 general election, an opinion poll published on Sunday showed. opposition party:反对党 narrow(v.):缩小 gap(n.):差距 Liberal Democrats:日本自民党成员 general election:大选 opinion poll:民意调查 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Asked who they would vote for in the proportional representation (PR) section of the election, 24 percent of respondents said they would support the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and 16 percent would back the opposition Democratic Party, the daily Asahi Shimbun said. proportional representation:(政党)比例代表制 比例代表制，相对于多数制，是三权分立体制中议会选举中分配议席的两种方法之一。比例代表制以每一参选组别所得选票占全部票数目的百分比分配议席。 respondent(n.):回答者 the Liberal Democratic Party:自民党 back(v.):支持 Democratic Party:民主党 Asahi Shimbun:朝日新闻 (a national leading newspaper in Japan~) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The findings of the poll, carried out on August 25 and 26, compared with 29 percent backing for the LDP and 13 percent for the Democrats, in the previous survey on August 22 and 23, the newspaper said. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called the snap election after his postal privatization bills failed to pass the Upper House of parliament earlier this month. finding(n.):调查结果 compared with:与。。相比较 此句中逻辑主语为the findings，与compare呈被动关系 previous(adj.):之前的 survey(n.):调查 Prime Minister:首相 Junichiro Koizumi:小泉什么狼来着 snap(adj.):突然的 postal privatization bill:邮政民营化法案 日参院否决邮政民营化法案导致小泉决定提前大选 the Upper House of parliament:议会上议院 *下议院:the Lower House ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ From Reuters [消息来源 英国 路透社]

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该贴内容均来自英语吧,感谢. 泽国梦魇---飓风引发的伤亡仍在继续 "Nightmare"worsens: more flooding, and death Death toll expected to be in the hundreds Updated: 9:01 a.m. ET Aug. 31, 2005 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hellish scenes of death, damage, and chaos wracked the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday as overwhelmed authorities tried to rescue the living and count the dead amid the destruction left by powerful Hurricane Katrina. hellish(adj.):地狱般的 scene(n.):景象 chaos(n.):混乱 wrack(v.):摧毁 破坏 U.S. Gulf Coast:美国墨西哥湾沿岸地区 overwhelmed(adj.):不知所措的 不安的 authority(n.):权威人士 rescue(v.):营救 amid(prep.):在。。其中的 destruction(n.):破坏 Hurricane Katrina:“卡特里娜”飓风 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New Orleans was filled with water after an initial attempt to stop a leaking levee failed, while police fought a losing battle to stop widespread looting in the stricken city. New Orleans:新奥尔良市 be filled with:充满 initial(adj.):起初的 attempt(n.):尝试 leaking(adj.):泄漏的 levee(n.):大堤 防洪堤 fought(v.):fight的过去式 widespread(adj.):广泛的 大规模的 looting(n.):劫掠 stricken(adj.):遭殃的 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Officials said it was simply too early to estimate a death toll. In Mississippi, officials confirmed that at least 100 people had died in the killer storm and said the death toll was almost certain to go much higher. official(n.):官方人员 estimate(v.):估计 death toll:死亡人数 Mississippi(n.):密西西比州(受灾最严重的一洲) confirm(v.):确定 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ From MSNBC [消息来源 美国 全国广播有线电视公司]

致命台风"卡努"袭击中国 Deadly typhoon slams China At least 7 dead as more than 1 million evacuated Monday, September 12, 2005 Posted: 0600 GMT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A typhoon ploughed into China south of Shanghai, killing at least seven people, forcing the evacuation of more than a million and driving thousands of ships to port before weakening on Monday. A flood control official in the coastal city of Taizhou, which suffered the full brunt of the storm from Typhoon Kanun overnight, said seven people were killed. plough into(v.):猛撞(to hit sth hard) evacuation(n.):疏散 weaken(v.):减弱 Taizhou(n.):台州 brunt(n.):冲力 Typhoon Kanun(n.):"卡努"台风 overnight(adv.):整夜 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "The rain has stopped and we can see trees on the street blown down and some areas of the city are still flooded and many houses collapsed," said the official. At least one person was killed by a fallen power line in Taizhou, Xinhua news agency said. blown:blow的过去分词(blow过去式为blew) blow(v.):风吹 eg, the breeze was blowing. 部分关于blow的词组: blow the gaff:无意中泄露秘密 blow hot and cold:拿不定主意;摇摆不定;反覆无常 blow your mind:让你对某事感既惊奇又兴奋 blow one's own trumpet/horn:自吹自擂 collapse(v.):倒塌 Xinhua news agency:新华通讯社 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Typhoon Khanun, which spared Taiwan on Saturday, made landfall in China's mountainous eastern province of Zhejiang, where storms regularly trigger deadly floods and landslides. spare(v.):这里有离开的意思 landfall(n.):登陆 mountainous(adj.):多山的 province(n.):省 trigger(v.):引发 landslide(n.):塌方 对定语从句的用法有疑惑的朋友可以特别注意一下这段 对这个知识点有不懂的可以问,3天内回答,没有就PASS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ From Reuters [消息来源 英国 路透社]

science&space→NASA:我们已经准备就绪 NASA: Shuttle launch date July 13 　　--"We're currently go for launch" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NASA's manned space flight program will resume July 13, when the space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA:美国航空航天局 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) manned space flight program:载人航天计划 space shuttle:航天飞机 blast off:发射 点火起飞 Kennedy Space Center:肯尼迪航天中心 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "Based on a very thorough and very successful flight readiness review, we're currently go for launch of Discovery on July 13," Griffin said. Senior NASA officials and shuttle program managers announced the launch date after a two-day "flight readiness review" for Discovery. flight readiness review:飞行准备检测 Discovery:发现者号 Senior NASA official:美航空航天局高层官员 announce:宣布 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The shuttle fleet has been grounded since February 1, 2003, when Columbia broke apart over Texas while on landing approach to Florida's Kennedy Space Center, killing all seven astronauts on board. shuttle fleet:航天飞机 ground:搁浅 使...停飞 Columbia:哥伦比亚号———┓ break apart:碎裂 崩溃　　│ astronaut: 宇航员　　　　↓ 　　╔———————————————————╗ 　　│2003年2月1日哥伦比亚号航天飞机不幸失事│ 　　│此后NASA就暂停了所有航天飞机的发射计划│ 　　╚———————————————————╝ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ From CNN [消息来源 美国 有线新闻网]