英国新闻听力 55

BBC News with Marian Marshall.

A surprise visit by President Bush to Iraq was disrupted when an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes and shouted insults at him during a news conference. Mr. Bush ducked and managed to avoid the shoes which hit the wall behind him. The journalist was wrestled¹ to the floor by security guards. Showing the soles of shoes is a sign of contempt in Arab culture. Our Baghdad correspondent Humphrey Hawksley said the gesture was a reflection of the mood in the country.

I think it reflects a kind of grassroots anger felt generally throughout the country. Yesterday I was out talking to people on different issues and they were fairly upbeat about things, talking about the economy, and the imports, and that sort of thing. When we were talking to people about President Bush’s visit today, they were condemnatory².

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has highlighted the extent of the threat posed to Britain by Islamist militants³ in Pakistan and announced plans to combat the problem. Mr. Brown said three quarters of the serious plots unearthed⁴ by the British police had links with al-Qaeda in Pakistan. Mr. Brown was speaking in Islamabad after talks with President Asif Zardari following the recent attack on the city of Mumbai that India has blamed on Pakistani-based（Pakistan-based）militants.

“We will work to ensure that everything is done to make sure that terrorists are denied any safe haven⁵ in Pakistan. The time has come for action and not words. And I want to help Pakistan and other countries root out terrorism”.

A Ugandan army spokesman has said that forces from Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Sudan, have taken part in a joint⁶ military operation against the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army. He said several rebel camps in the northeastern Congo were set on fire and destroyed. He said the operation had been a success but the number of casualties wasn’t known. The spokesman said Uganda provided what he called air assets and all three countries had sent in ground forces. A BBC correspondent says the United Nations mission in Congo was aware of the operation but it played no part.

More details have been emerging of how many companies have been exposed to the alleged⁷ fraud carried out by the US broker⁸ Bernard Madoff. Mr. Madoff, the former head of the NASDAQ stock market, was charged last week with fraud in the running of his hedge fund. Sebastian Arsher reports.

The list of victims of Bernard Madoff’s investment fund which he’s admitted was one big lie is growing by the day. Spain’s biggest bank Santander now says one of its investment funds has an exposure of three billion dollars. And the top French Bank BNP Paribas says its exposure could be more than 416 million dollars. Like hundreds of others, they fell for Mr. Madoff’s extraordinary returns which it turns out were based on shuttling investors’ money around in a vast pyramid scheme.

World News from the BBC.

The African Union has expressed serious concern over the sacking of the Somali Prime Minister by President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad. The head of the AU Commission Jean Ping said the move would undermine efforts to bring peace and stability to the country, and further complicate⁹ the situation there. President Yusuf said he was replacing the Prime Minster Nur Hassan Hussein because he had failed to bring security to the country. Somalia has been without a fully¹⁰ functioning government since 1991, and President Yusuf and his prime minister had clashed in recent months over attempts to deal with the Islamist-led opposition¹¹.

Russian police have arrested dozens of opposition activists¹² in advance of planned anti-government protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Hundreds of riot police have been sent to the central Moscow Square to prevent the demonstration¹³ from taking place. At least 90 people were arrested there, and another 60 in St. Petersburg. But Eduard Limonov, the leader of the opposition National Bolsheviks, said that despite the arrests, it was a moral victory for the protestors.

The victory went to the opposition. The authorities who had tens of thousands of people at their disposal found themselves in the position of being helpless clods, like a clod on ice. In the future, we will not even ask for permission to come out onto the streets. We will come out onto the streets and they will be like ten clod on ice.

The head of the World Bank Robert Zoellick has warned that efforts to boost the troubled economies of wealthy nations could cause serious damage to developing countries. Mr. Zoellick said in an interview with the Reuters news agency that some of the measures taken had already made it more difficult for poorer nations to raise funds in the markets. He added that the economic turmoil¹⁴ could lead to humanitarian¹⁵ aid drying up and that together with rising unemployment, it could cause a new wave of protectionism.

1 wrestled   

v.（与某人）搏斗( wrestle的过去式和过去分词 )；扭成一团；扭打；（与…）摔跤

参考例句：

• As a boy he had boxed and wrestled. 他小的时候又是打拳又是摔跤。
• Armed guards wrestled with the intruder. 武装警卫和闯入者扭打起来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 condemnatory   

adj. 非难的，处罚的

参考例句：

• Public security punishs a law to also have corresponding condemnatory regulation. 治安处罚法也有相应的处罚规定。
• Public security management does not have such regulation on condemnatory byelaw, can not detain. 治安治理处罚条例上没有这样的规定，不可以拘留的。

3 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

4 unearthed   

出土的（考古）

参考例句：

• Many unearthed cultural relics are set forth in the exhibition hall. 展览馆里陈列着许多出土文物。
• Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed. 有些器皿在出土时已经残破。

5 haven   

n.安全的地方，避难所，庇护所

参考例句：

• It's a real haven at the end of a busy working day.忙碌了一整天后，这真是一个安乐窝。
• The school library is a little haven of peace and quiet.学校的图书馆是一个和平且安静的小避风港。

6 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

7 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

8 broker   

n.中间人，经纪人；v.作为中间人来安排

参考例句：

• He baited the broker by promises of higher commissions.他答应给更高的佣金来引诱那位经纪人。
• I'm a real estate broker.我是不动产经纪人。

9 complicate   

vt.使复杂化，使混乱，使难懂

参考例句：

• There is no need to complicate matters.没有必要使问题复杂化。
• These events will greatly complicate the situation.这些事件将使局势变得极其复杂。

10 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

11 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

12 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

14 turmoil   

n.骚乱，混乱，动乱

参考例句：

• His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
• The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。

15 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。