万花筒 2013-05-26&05-28 英士兵伦敦街头被杀 首相称是恐怖袭击

 I’ve beenbriefed by the Home Secretary about this absolutely sickening attack inWoolwich in London.It is the most appalling¹ crime. We are urgently seeking, and the police areurgently seeking, the full facts about this case. But there are strongindications that it is a terrorist incident. Two people at the scene of themurder were wounded by the police, and they are being treated as suspects.

 

The Home Secretary is chairing COBR tonight to bringtogether the police, the security services– all of the agencies – so that wegather every piece of information that we can. The police and the securityservices in the UKwill get all of the support that they need to deal with this, or indeed withany other incident. I’ll be returning to Londonlater tonight so that I can chair a COBR meeting again in the morning to makesure that we have all of the facts of this case. Tonight our thoughts should bewith the victim, with their family, with their friends. People across Britain, peoplein every community, I believe, will utterly² condemn³ this attack. We have hadthese sorts of attacks before in our country, and we never buckle⁴ in the faceof them.

1 appalling   

adj.骇人听闻的，令人震惊的，可怕的

参考例句：

• The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions.恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
• Nothing can extenuate such appalling behaviour.这种骇人听闻的行径罪无可恕。

2 utterly   

adv.完全地，绝对地

参考例句：

• Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民，把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
• I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。

3 condemn   

vt.谴责，指责；宣判(罪犯)，判刑

参考例句：

• Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他，而有些人谴责他。
• We mustn't condemn him on mere suppositions.我们不可全凭臆测来指责他。

4 buckle   

n.扣子，带扣；v.把...扣住，由于压力而弯曲

参考例句：

• The two ends buckle at the back.带子两端在背后扣起来。
• She found it hard to buckle down.她很难专心做一件事情。