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BBC新闻讲解2010-11-05第536期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:英国禁止索马里飞机入境(2010-11-5)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Marion MarshallBritish security officials say the crucial tip-off on the parcel bombs addressed to a Chicago synagogue and discovered on cargo planes on Friday came from a suspected al-Qaeda member. The man is a Saudi Arabian national.More from our security correspondent Gordon Corera.It appears that a member of al-Qaeda who had been to the Saudi rehabilitation programme,then left and went and joined al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen,but then left again and left the al-Qaeda grouping and returned to the Saudi authorities.About two weeks ago,we think,and with him came a tip-off and the intelligence about this potential plot which was then shared by the Saudis with American and other authorities,and clearly that was vital because if these devices had got through the initial security screening,and so without that tip-off,they may well have exploded.The British government has introduced new security restrictions in the wake of the parcel bomb discovery.Air passengers will no longer be able to carry printer cartridges in their hand luggage and no unaccompanied air cargo will be allowed into Britain from Somalia.Campaigning is drawing to a close across the United States in national elections that will decide control of Congress.Opinion polls suggest President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party could lose control of the House of Representatives,but the campaign for the Senate is expected to be much tighter.More from Jonny Dymond.After a frantic final four-state swing,President Obama has spent this last day before the elections in the White House,recording radio interviews and rallying volunteers by phone.Up and down the country,the airwaves are heavy with blast and counter-blast from candidates who have outspent any that have come before them.One non-partisan group estimates that the final spend on this election will be$4billion.President Barack Obama has renewed American sanctions against Sudan for another year in an effort to keep the pressure on Khartoum to resolve the conflicts in the country.But a spokesman said the US would reconsider its approach if there was progress in resolving a bitter North-South dispute and improve the humanitarian situation in Darfur.The electoral commission in Ivory Coast has said the turnout in Sunday’s presidential election was about80%,a figure it called“historic”.The election,the first in ten years,is aimed at bringing an end to a civil war which left Ivory Coast divided for several years.John James reports from Abidjan.So far only results for Ivorians who voted outside the country have been partially published.They suggest a second round between current President Laurent Gbagbo and former International Monetary Fund economist Alassane Ouattara.But these results represent a tiny percentage of the overall electorate.A large proportion of the country’s5.7million voters came out to cast their ballots on Sunday,creating long queues in front of many of the voting centres.The head of UN peacekeeping mission said the turnout was one of the highest-ever in Africa.BBC News.American health authorities say the cholera strain which has killed more than330people in Haiti most closely resembles a strain found in South Asia.The US Centre for Disease Control found that Haitian cholera patients had all been infected by the same strain of the disease.The Haitian health minister said it was unlikely to have originated in Haiti.A judge in Uganda has ordered a newspaper to stop publishing the names,addresses and photographs of people it says are homosexual.A Uganda gay rights group minortity requested the injunction after the newspaper published for a second time the identities of some people it said were homosexual.A spokesperson for the group,Pepe Julian Onziema,said the newspaper caused a lot of problems in the gay community."It created a lot of scare.The community were very afraid.For myself,it was like'I cannot keep only living in fear in this country'.My rights have been violated by me being outed in that paper, and my colleagues as well."The newspaper editor last month defended his decision to name homosexuals,saying they were trying to recruit children.The Turkish Kurd militant group,the PKK,has said it had nothing to do with a suicide bomb attack in Istanbul on Sunday,in which32people were wounded.The group said it was out of the question that any of its fighters could carry out a bombing which would hurt civilians.Police in Northern Ireland say a bomb discovered in a car at Belfast International Airport at the weekend could have been there since last year.The device,found in the long-stay car park near the airport,was found to contain flammable liquid.It was made safe by a bomb disposal team.The Catholic Church in Cuba says the government has agreed to release three more dissidents. One of the men has served more than25years in jail for stealing seven rifles when he was19 years old.Under the deal brokered by the church,the three would be exiled in Spain.BBC World Service News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译周五，一架货运飞机上发现了寄送到芝加哥犹太会堂的炸弹包裹。
BBC新闻讲解2011-09-08第788期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:英国一所学校推迟上课时间(2011-09-08)第一部分：听力文本Be Late for School!上学迟到了！Drriinnggg!That's the sound kids up and down the country do not want to hear–the alarm bell.The school year has just started and children across the UK have to wake up bright and early to go to school.But students at one school in north-east England can lie in for an extra hour before they go to school.Monkseaton High School has been allow ing its pupils to come into school an hour later than other schools.The headmaster,Dr Paul Kelley,says that this approach helps students pay more attention in class.He feels that young people are more productive later on in the day and that a late start may be better for their school career than an early one.Dr Kelley told the BBC that"teenagers don't function very well in the morning and their need to sleep is biological."It seems that this novel approach to teaching shows positive results.The school has already seen a drop in the number of pupils playing truant by27%.More importantly,Dr Kelley also said that exam results have improved by20-30%over the past year.Lessons at Monkseaton High School begin at10am and finish at3.40pm;however,the school opens from8am to5pm.第二部分：参考翻译“叮铃……”这是全国各地的学生都不喜欢听到的声音，电铃的声音。
BBC新闻讲解2011-05-03第684期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:英国威廉王子和米德尔顿大婚(2011-05-03)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Jerry SmitPrinceWilliam, the second in line to the British throne, and his bride Kate Middleton have beenmarried in a glitter ing ceremony atWestminster Abbey. Kate, who now has the title Duchess ofCambridge, told a news agency photographer "We had a great day." Here's Nicholas Witchell.This was a day when a young woman was taken to many people's hearts. Accompanied by herfather, she was driven through streets more packed than they have been for a royal wedding for agood many years. At Westminster Abbey, her husband-to-be was waiting. "You look beautiful,"he said, as Kate took her place beside him. The marriage ceremony was performed by theArchbishop of Canterbury.I, William Arthur Philip Louis (I, William Arthur Philip Louis), take thee, Catherine Elizabeth(take thee, Catherine Elizabeth) to my wedded wife (to my wedded wife).There was one moment of anxiety. The ring appeared to be too small. William persevere d, and onit went. Within the abbey, the cheers of the crowds outside could clearly be heard. But of coursefrom that moment, she was no longer Catherine Middleton. The Queen had optedfor traditionand made William the Duke of Cambridge. And so she joined the royal family as Her RoyalHighness the Duchess of Cambridge.The couple are now at a reception in Buckingham Palace, where the formality of the ceremonieswill be relaxed. Here's June Kelly.After wedding service attended by 2,000, this evening's reception is in comparison a small affair -300 guests chosen by the couple, the host is the Prince of Wales. The Queen and Duke ofEdinburgh have left for home and turned the palace over to the party goers. One official said theQueen believed the reception was for younger people to let their hair down. The dinner has beenthe setting for Prince Harry's best man speech. With no grandparents' present, theprince may feelless inhibited when it comes to tales about his older brother.June KellyMany Americans were among the global television audience, as Laura Trevelyan found out whenshe visited a street party in New York.New Yorkers gathered at sunrise to celebrate the royal wedding. In a country that long agorebelled against rule by the British king, people came to celebrate the romance. BBC 新闻讲解2011-5-3 第684 期QIHUI 制作可可英语:2"We all believe in fairy tales, and this is the best fairy tale that we've got in our generation, and Ithink we all just want to be a part of that.""I am excited. This is our adopted royalty. We still love them. We all love the hats. We love thepageantry. It's fantastic."The most appealing aspect of this story to Americans is Kate Middleton's transformation - anordinary middle-class young woman to princess.You're listening to World News from the BBC.Nato has accused forces loyal to the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi of laying mines in the watersoff the coast of the besieged rebel-held city of Misrata. Ian Pannell reports from Tripoli.According to Nato, it intercept ed small boats being used by Gaddafi loyalists off the coast ofMisrata on Friday morning to plant mines. The port is the only lifeline for the besieged city, andit's been used for humanitarian shipments, the evacuation of refugees and casualties from the city,as well as the delivery of weapons and ammunition for the rebels. The head of operations for thealliance accused Colonel Gaddafi of a "complete disregard for international law". The governmentin Tripoli hasn't responded.Human rights campaigners in Syria say more than 40 protesters have been killed in another day ofanti-government demonstrations across the country. Many of those who died were reported tohave been shot by the security forces as they tried to reach the southern city of Deraa. The city hasbeen occupied by troops and tanks since Monday. Owen Bennett-Jones reports from neighbouringLebanon.The reports say that thousands of people were marching towards Deraa when the security forcesopened fire. The dead and injured were taken to a nearby hospital outside Deraa. Earlier, thegovernment news agency reported that four soldiers had been killed and two kidnapped in Deraaby what it described as an "armed terrorist group" which stormed a military post. Deraa, whereFriday prayers were banned today, is the place where the protests began six weeks ago.The French Football Federation has begun an inquiry into allegations that officials secretlyplanned to introduce racial quota s in national training programmes to restrict the number ofnon-white players. An investigative website, Mediapart, alleged that the football authorities hadapproved a plan to restrict the number of black players at football training centres to 30% of thetotal. Senior officials have denied the accusations.And that's the latest BBC News.提示：文本转自普特听力论坛BBC 新闻讲解2011-5-3 第684 期QIHUI 制作可可英语:3第二部分：参考翻译英国王位第二顺位继承人威廉王子和新娘凯特·米德尔顿在威斯敏斯特大教堂(Westminster Abbey)举行了盛大婚礼。
BBC双语新闻讲解附字幕：四川茂县发生山体滑坡
BBC双语新闻讲解附字幕：四川茂县发生山体滑坡Rescue workers in Pakistan say at least 125 people have died after an oil tanker caught fire. Many others are in a critical condition in hospital. The blaze started after the tanker overturned in Punjab province.Rescue officials in China have cautioned that it's unlikely anyone else would be found alive after a huge landslide in China's Sichuan province that destroyed a mountain village. A couple and their baby were found in the early hours after the landslide on Saturday. More than 100 people are thought to be dead.The Philippine military is observing a temporary ceasefire in its war against militants in Marawi in the south of the country. It's to allow the predominantly Muslim population displaced by the fighting to celebrate the end of Ramadan.China has called on Afghanistan and Pakistan to meet each other half way to improve their troubled relationship. China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China would support both countries in setting up a mechanism to manage crisis.The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said a list of demands presented to Qatar by its Gulf neighbors is against international law because it interferes in the country's sovereignty. Qatar has described the demands as unreasonable.The spiritual head of the Anglican church has called on the British Prime Minister to set up a cross party commission as a way of, as he puts it, drawing much of the poison from the debate about how Britain leaves the European Union. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the Brexit continued to divide the country.South Korea's President has proposed that North and South Korea form a joint Olympic team to take part in the 2018 Winter Games. Moon Jae-in said he hoped to return to periods when the 2 countries submitted joint teams at international sporting events or march together at Olympic ceremonies.BBC News.。
BBC新闻讲解2010-11-01第532期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:阿根廷前总统心脏病发去世(2010-11-01)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Iain PurdonThree days after a tsunami struck the remote Mentawai island chain in western Indonesia,the full scale of the disaster is emerging.Rescue teams have reached most of the worst-affected areas to find homes and offices destroyed,swathes of land under water and swollen bodies strewn across roads and beaches.Karishma Vaswani reports.The district chief of the Mentawai Islands told the BBC that the focus for rescue teams now is to treat the hundreds of people who've been severely injured in the tsunami.He added that most of the villages affected have now been reached.Mass graves have been dug for the large number of people who were killed,and thousands of refugees who lost their homes in the disaster have been moved into temporary shelters.The local government says it plans to set up a rehabilitation and reconstruction programme for Mentawai.Eleven of the27leaders attending the European Union summit in Brussels have signed a letter calling for the6%EU budget increase proposed for next year to be curtailed.They say the proposed rise is unacceptable at a time when member governments are imposing austerity measures.The countries challenging the budget increase include Britain,France and Germany. Jonathan Marcus reports from Brussels.A powerful group of11countries,including some of the key movers and shakers in the European Union,is setting down a powerful challenge to the EU's parliament and commission.A letter is being sent to the president of the European Council signed by the leaders of the11countries, insisting that the growth in the EU's budget for2011must be curtailed.Existing calls from the commission and parliament for an increase in EU spending of some6%are described in the letter as"especially unacceptable at a time when we are having to take difficult decisions at national level to control public expenditure".A commission appointed by President Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says that cement used to seal the doomed well may have contributed to the blow-out that caused the disaster. The commission says that both BP,which owned the well,and Halliburton,the contractor responsible for the cement,were aware of flaws in the mixture,weeks before the disaster.From Washington,Iain MacKenzie reports.In the first of its findings to be made public,the national commission raises concerns about the cement mix used to seal the bottom of BP's Macondo well.It says four separate tests were carried out before the20April explosion.Three of those came back showing potential problems thatcould have led to the cement failing.The report also states that while Halliburton did pass on some of the test results to BP,it may have kept other data to itself.President Cristina Fernandez of Argentina has joined thousands of mourners paying their respects to her late husband,the former President Nestor Kirchner.Mr Kirchner,who died of a heart attack on Wednesday,was his wife's chief strategist and one of the most powerful politicians in Argentina.World News from the BBCThe United Nations says it's found no evidence so far that Nepalese peacekeepers in Haiti are the source of a cholera outbreak that's killed more than300people.The UN said all the Nepalese soldiers in Haiti had undergone medical tests before their deployment,and none was cholera positive.It added that samples taken from their camp last week had tested negative.Further tests are being carried out.Bethany Bell reports from Washington.The UN says it's taking the issue very seriously but so far has found nothing to suggest that the outbreak of cholera in Haiti started with the Nepalese peacekeepers.Martin Nesirky,the spokesman for the UN secretary general,said that all710Nepalese soldiers had undergone medical tests before they were deployed to Haiti earlier this month,and none were cholera positive.The Nepalese camp has become the object of local suspicion partly because cholera is rare in Haiti but endemic in Nepal.The leader of the militant Hezbollah movement in Lebanon has called on his countrymen to boycott a United Nations tribunal investigating the murder of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.Hassan Nasrallah's speech comes a day after two UN investigators who were gathering evidence at a gynaecology clinic in Beirut came under attack by a group of women.Serbia has announced it's offering a reward of about$14million for information leading to the capture of the war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic.The government said it was increasing the reward 10-fold to show that it was firmly committed to joining the European Union.Mountaineers can now use mobile telephones and surf the Internet while they are climbing Mount Everest.A Nepalese telecommunications company has installed wireless technology stations along the route to base camp.As a result,mountaineers will be able to access up-to-date weather reports and safety information.BBC News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译海啸袭击印度尼西亚西部明打威群岛三天之后，灾难的规模已经初见端倪。
BBC新闻讲解2010-8-5第423期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:美联储主席称全球经济乐观(2010-08-5)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC news with David Legge.Israel says it’s decided to cooperate with the United Nations’investigation into its commando raid on a Gaza aid flotilla in May.Israel had previously said there was no need for an international probe into the incident in which9activists from Turkey and the United States were killed.Turkey has welcomed the UN investigation.Here’s our UN correspondent Barbara Plett.The panel's mandate is to review the results of the two national inquires into the raid,ask for additional information if necessary and recommend ways of avoiding such incidents in the future. The UN officials insist this is an investigative body,not simply an international review panel to supervise the Turkish and Israeli inquires.However,that appears to be a matter of interpretation for the two countries,with the Turks stressing the“investigation”and the Israelis stressing the “review”.But both see this as the crucial step necessary to defuse tensions between them.UN diplomats say that’s one of the reasons Israel dropped its refusal to participate..Seven years after the American-led invasion of Iraq,President Obama has confirmed that all US combat troops will be withdrawn by the end of August.Mr Obama said this would fulfill a pledge he made shortly after taking office.He described how the role of the American forces would change during the phase d withdrawal.“As agreed to with the Iraqi government we will maintain a transitional force until we remove all our troops from Iraq by the end of next year.And during this period,our forces will have a focused mission-supporting and training Iraqi forces,partnering with Iraqis in counter-terrorism missions,and protecting our civilian and military efforts.”Some50,000American troops will stay on until the end of next year to train Iraqi forces and help conduct counter-terrorism operations.The International Committee of the Red Cross says as many as2.5million people in Pakistan have been affected by the worst flooding in a generation.Pakistan’s Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said the severity of the flooding was putting relief operations under intense strain.“In just one province,30helicopters are operating.Unfortunately,when the weather is bad,the helicopters can’t fly.And the roads,the links,the bridges,those are vanish ed and those have been damaged.So by road the approach is very difficult,and by helicopters-this is only way to approach in those areas,and if there are heavy clouds in the mountains,it’s very difficult to fly.”The chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir Omar Abdullah has called for urgent reinforcement s to tackle the worst violence in Kashmir for2years.At least5people have been shot dead and50wounded in the latest clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against Indian rule.Mr Abdullah urged people to stop taking the law into their own hands, following a series of attacks on police stations.World News from the BBC.The municipality of Chongqing,an industrial powerhouse in southwestern China,has begun easing the country’s tough restrictions on internal migration.The local authorities are reclassifying migrants from rural areas and say they will recognise10million people as city dwellers over the next decade.China’s rigid registration system which ties people to their place of birth has come under huge strain in recent years.A United States court has convicted2men of plotting to cause explosions at JFK International Airport in New York.Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir were found guilty of conspiring to blow up jet fuel tanks and buildings to avenge what they saw as"US oppression of Muslims".The defence argued that they were led astray by a police informant.The head of the American Federal Reserve Ban Bernanke says the United States has a considerable way to go to achieve a full economic recovery.Mr Bernanke said unemployment was still high and housing market was weak.However,two encouraging economic surveys in the United States and Europe have helped global stock markets begin the week with rises after recent losses.Our business reporter Theo Leggett has more.Over the past few weeks,leading stock markets have been weighed down by concerns that the global economic recovery could be weakening.On Monday,there were signs that this may not be the case.A monthly index of manufacturing activity in the16countries that use the Euro was revised upwards,while a similar survey in the United States proved more positive than expected. Strong earnings from the British bank HSBC and the French bank BNP Paribas gave a further boost to share prices.Analysts say the news has increased investor confidence and temper ed fears of a so-called“double-dip recession”.The takeover of the Swedish carmaker Volvo by the Chinese company Gili has been completed. It’s the biggest takeover so far of a foreign brand by China's expanding automotive industry.Gili paid$1.3billion.BBC News.提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译以色列表示，他们将配合联合国的行动，对五月份以色列突击队袭击加沙救援船队事件进行调查。
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bbc一分钟英语短新闻加中文翻译BBC news with David HarperDavid Harper为您播报BBC新闻South Africa has announced a tenfold increase in the number of troops to be deployed in response to widespread violence sparked by the jailing of the former President Jacob Zuma.南非宣布将部署的军队数量增加十倍，这是对前总统雅各布·祖玛被监禁引发的广泛暴力的回应。
隐贺笑Up to 25000 soldiers are to be sent on the streets of KwaZulu-Nataland Gauteng provinces.多达25000名士兵将被派往夸祖鲁－纳塔兰省豪登省的街道。
The leader of South Africa Zulu said 6 days of looting had brought shame on the entire country.南非领导人祖鲁表示，持续6天的抢劫给整个国家带来了耻辱。
The authorities in Ethiopia's Amhara埃塞俄比亚阿姆哈拉当局region said they will go on the offensive against forces from neighboring Tigray,该地区表示，他们将向邻国蒂格雷的军队发起进攻potentially opening up a new phase in8 months of civil war.可能会开启长达8个月的内战的灶含新阶段。
Troops have been rallied to counter the Tigrayans who are advancing on Amhara-held territory.军队已经集结起来对抗向阿姆哈拉占领地区挺进的蒂格雷人。
BBC新闻讲解2月21日第293期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:埃及法老图坦卡蒙可能死于疟疾(2010-02-21)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News.This is Mike Cooper.President Obama has given his backing to building the first nuclear reactors in the United States in three decades.He said the country needed a new generation of safe,clean nuclear power stations to meet its energy needs and fight climate change.Mr Obama is offering an8-billion-dollar loan guarantee to the first plant,but only if legislation against greenhouse gas emissions is part of the package.He said that without funding for new technologies,the US risked falling behind other nations."Make no mistake whether it's nuclear energy or solar or wind energy.If we fail to invest in the technologies of tomorrow,then we are gonna be importing those technologies instead of exporting them.We will fall behind.Jobs will be produced overseas instead of here in the United States of America.That's not a future that I accept."The Afghan Taliban is said to have lost one of its key leaders.Reports say its top military commander and leading strategist,Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar,was captured at the beginning of this month in a joint operation by Pakistani and American forces in Karachi.A spokesman for the Afghan Taliban denied that the leader had been taken.From Karachi,Orla Guerin reports.Pakistani security sources say Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was detained on February8th at a religious school outside the city limits without a shot being fired.He is second only to the Taliban's reclusive supreme leader Mullah Omar,and critically he's thought to favor negotiations with the West and the Afghan government.It's hoped he could provide key intelligence and be a bargaining chip in any future talks.Pope Benedict has called the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland a heinous crime that wounded human dignity.His comments followed a meeting about the scandal with Irish bishops in Rome.The Vatican said all will agree that the church's teaching had been damaged.With more,here is Duncan Kennedy in Rome.The two days of talks between Pope Benedict and the24bishops of Ireland were described as frank and open.In a statement afterwards,the Vatican spokesman said the pope shares the outrage over the abuse,which had resulted from years of failure to act by the Church in Ireland. The scandal was revealed last year in two reports that highlight ed systematic abuse of children and young people by priests and others connected with the Church.At a news conference,the bishops said measures were already being put in place to stop future abuses.The Inter-American Development Bank says the cost of rebuilding Haiti after last month's earthquake could reach14billion dollars.The estimate is based on preliminary damageassess ment and comparisons with previous disasters.The bank says the earthquake was proportionately the most destructive natural disaster of modern times when viewed in relation to the size of Haiti's population and economy.The quake killed about230,000people and left the capital Port-au-Prince in ruins.World News from the BBC.Argentina says it's imposing new controls on shipping to the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic in a growing row over British plans to drill for oil there.The Argentine government said all vessels leaving for the Falklands from Argentine ports or passing through Argentine waters would need permission from Buenos Aires.Britain and Argentina fought a short war over the Falklands in1982.Argentina still disputes British sovereignty.The French Defence Minister Herve Morin has promised a transparent investigation after a newspaper reported that France deliberately exposed its soldiers to contamination during nuclear tests.The Parisien newspaper had published what it said were official documents,detailing how several hundred soldiers were ordered to enter contaminated zones during atomic bomb tests in Algeria in the early1960s.The document says the aim was to assess the physical and psychological effects on humans.New research suggests that the Egyptian boy pharaoh Tutankhamun was killed by malaria and wasn't murdered or killed in an accident.Tutankhamun is probably the best-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt because of his marvelously preserved tomb discovered in1922.Michelle Roberts reports.Scientists,who painstakingly studied the pharaoh's remains,think Tutankhamun died from a bout of malaria that attacked his already weakened body.They say he had a cleft palate in club foot likely forcing him to walk with a cane.In the Journal of the American Medical Association,lead scientist,Dr Zahi Hawass,says how he found traces of the malaria parasite in Tutankhamun's blood along with signs of bone disease.Researchers in Colombia say they may have an answer to food shortages in the conflict zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo,where livestock are often stolen.They suggest that guinea pigs,which are high in protein and easy to hide,have immense potential because they reproduce quickly and can be fed on kitchen waste.BBC News.提示:文本转自普特英语听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译美国总统奥巴马支持建立三十年来首座核反应堆。
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BBC双语新闻讲解附字幕:对薇拉·布里顿回忆录的思考听力文本On this day in 1920 the United States voted not to join the League of Nations that had emerged out of the ‘never again’tide of feeling that accompanied the end of the First World War. Although President Woodrow Wilson had been appalled at the scale of human suffering he had seen, the increasingly isolationist tendencies of the US meant that the first organisation with an international peace agenda began its life without one of its potentially most powerful members.One of the early supporters of the League of Nations was Vera Brittain, whose classic memoir of the Great War, ‘Testament of Youth’, was released as a film on 16 January. Having read a review that found it sentimental I went to see it on Friday with mixed expectations.The film is primarily, like Brittain’s book, a commemoration of the lives and deaths of the young men whom she had loved and lost rather than an attempt to make a contemporary point. But the act of remembrance itself, can be a subversive and not just a sentimental act. Urged to forget and move on by those around her, Vera determined not only that she would not forget these young men, but that she would not forget what she herself had witnessed and learned as a V oluntary Nurse whilst at a military hospital in étaples.Confronted there with a hut full of German wounded Vera recognized, with shock, that these enemies were young men too, bleeding, suffering and dying far from home; the memory led to her initial support for the League of Nations, and in the face of the growing militarism of the 1930s, eventually to become one of the 20th century’s leading pacifists.As this month’s events in France continue to reverberate, and the release of the Guantanamo diaries raises inconvenient moral questions about western values, what we do with our memories is a key question. ‘Forgive and forget’is often not realistic, ignores the claims of justice, and is simply not safe, whilst the memory driven cycle of defending our own ‘high ground’runs the risk of causing more and more damage and of failing to see how our attitudes and actions –whoever we are - also need scrutiny.An alternative way to remember is offered by Miroslav V olf, a Croat theologian, writing out of the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. What he offers is a twofold way of remembering –a remembrance of harm done to us and ours that honours real anxiety and protects the vulnerable, but a remembrance which also honours the humanity of our enemies –a remembrance that restrains our desire for vengeance, opens up space for the scrutiny of our own actions, and constrains us to work for thereconciliation of all peoples –even if that day is beyond our sight.The League of Nations failed for lots of reasons, and was succeeded by a variety of international institutions, but it did hold out a vision of common humanity in the years after the Great War. Who, or what, now, amidst ricocheting fears and outrages, might we allow, not to help us forget, nor even just to remember, but to remember well?词汇解释1.appalled adj. 惊骇的；丧胆的She said that the Americans are appalled at the statements made at the conference.她说美国人对在该大会中作的声明感到震惊。
2.testament n. [法] 遗嘱；圣约；确实的证明The falsification of the testament [will] was discovered by them.他们发现这份遗嘱被窜改了。
3.subversive adj. 破坏性的；从事颠覆的n. 危险分子；颠覆分子The play was promptly banned as subversive and possibly treasonous.该剧被认为是颠覆性的且可能是叛国性的而立即被禁演了。
4.reverberate vt. 使回响；使反射；使弹回vi. 回响；反响；弹回；不断发生后效adj. 回响的；反射的The controversy surrounding the takeover yesterday continued to reverberate around the television industry.围绕昨天的接管问题的争议继续在电视业产生反响。
5.ricochet n. 跳弹；跳飞；vi. 跳飞vt. 使跳飞The bullets ricocheted off the hood and windshield.子弹从汽车引擎盖和挡风玻璃上弹走了。
内容解析1.The League of Nations failed for lots of reasons, and was succeeded by a variety of international institutions, but it did hold out a vision of common humanity in the years after the Great War.hold out 坚持；伸出；提供；维持；抵制；主张；扣留；寄予(希望)He still holds out hope that they could be a family again.他仍然希望他们能够再次成为一家人。
In those impregnable mountains, the guerrillas could hold out for years.在那些易守难攻的大山里，游击队可以坚持很多年。
参考译文1920年的今天，美国投票决定不加入国际联盟，该组织是在一战后“永远不再这样”的思潮应运而生的。
尽管伍德罗·威尔逊总统对亲眼目睹人类苦难甚为震惊，美国日益加强的孤立主义者倾向意味着，第一个有着国际和平议程的组织在诞生时并没有可能成为强国的成员国。
国际联盟最初的支持者之一是薇拉·布里顿，她有关一战的经典回忆录《青年遗嘱》于1月16日以电影的形式上映。
我读过其影评，发现它很感人，周五在欣赏它时怀着复杂的期待之情。
这部电影像布里顿的书一样，主要讲述的是她所爱过并失去的年轻人的生死故事，而不是试图表述当代的观点。
但这种纪念行为本身是颠覆性的，不仅是在抒发感情。