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必克BBC新闻:也门美国人质被杀 台风黑格比袭击菲律宾

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BBC news with David Austin.

President Obama has condemned what he called for barbaric murder of an American jounalist Luke Somers and a South African teacher Pierre Korkie. They were being held hostage by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen. The US military says the men were murdered by the captors during a rescue attempt. Frank Gardner has the details.

This is America's third failed hostage rescue mission in the Middl East in less than 6 months. In July, its special operation's commander had launched a raid on the IS hideouts near Iraq and Syria in a bid to free Luke Somers and other US and British hostages. They were too late, the man had been moved just days earlier. The same thing happened in November when Luke Somers's in Yemen. In this latest raid, brain intelligent was accurate, they correctly located where Luke Somers was being held. But once his captors were aware of they were being attacked,they killed both him and Pierre Korkie.

The US defense secretary Chuck Hagel says extra 1,000 American troops will stay in Afganistan for the first month of next year to boost the new NATO-led mission which is struggling to rich its plan's strength. Mr Hagel was speeking at the Afghan capital Cabul.

President Obama has provided the US military commanders the flexibility to manage any temporary fall-shortfalls that we might be experience for a few months as we allow for coalition troops to arrive in theater. This would mean that delay would draw, and up to 1,000 US troops. But president's authorization would not change, it would not change our troops missions or the long-term timeline for our withdraw.

Militants' loyals to the IS group in Iraqi are reported to have executed 16 members of a tribe in the province of Anbar in the western of the country. The leader of the Al-Bu Nimar tribe said the bodies of the victims were flung in an abandoned well in an area, North of the hown of Hit. In recent months, ISIS was believed to had executed hundreds of member of this particular tribe group which decided with the Iraqi government against the militants.

Typhoon Hagupit has crashed into eastern islands of the Phillipines, tearing down trees and power lines. Reports from the city of Tacloban where thousands were killed by typhoon Haiyan a year ago say the roofs of some buildings have been blown away and famlies are sheltering by cadle-lighting schools. Serso Legardia who is part of world vision's typhoon response team said that people were scared.

People hardly have left, because winds are still howling, you don't itch all hosh night there * threatening marching in our hides and nobody can really sleep. After we go out of the building, we know that we see that the 3 ? were ? dead. It's easy, it's almost like a ghost town outside.

This is the world news from the BBC.

Pope Francis has warned that Chrstians have been driven from the Middle East, the Pontiff said in an video messege to Catholics in Iraq that the IS militants do not want that there to be any Christians in the region. He added the big group which he called extremist and fudamentalist was also targeting others like the Yezidi community because their religion and ethnicity.

The president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has addressed thousands of delegates on the final day of congress in the governing ZANU-PF party in the capital Harare. The 90 year old used the occasion to denounce the former colonial power-Britain.

We together have the responsiblity to protect and defend this land. So we shall never again as he did becoming colonial NGG of those wanders who called themslves British. ZANU-PF confirmed his wife Grace as the new head of its women's wing, correspondent say she maybe been groomed to succeed her husband.

Greek police have fired tear gas to disperse protestors in the main square in the capital Athens. Demonstrators set rubbish bins on fire and throw patrol bombs at police. Earlier, about 6,000 people marched through the street to mark 6 years since police shot dead an unarmed teenager. The killing sparkle the country's worse riots for years.

The draw for next year's women's World Cup football tournament is taking place in the Canadian capital Ottawa. The event features an expanded field of 24 teams and will be played in 6 Canadian cities from June. In the group face, the title defender Japan will face 3 first-time qualifiers. The Olympic champions the United States have a tough first-round of matches, meeting Australia, Sweden and Nigeria.

BBC news.

词汇解析

recovery

难度:3星常用词汇,属常用6000词

英汉解释

n.恢复;痊愈;复原;重获

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

A lot has been done in the recovery of national economy in the past few years.

在过去的几年中我们为了国民经济的恢复做了大量的工作。

Th woman was delighted at the recovery of her stolen jewels.

那位妇人对找回被盗的珠宝感到非常高兴。

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existence

难度:4星核心词汇,属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.存在;生存

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

The newspaper ceased to appear after an existence of three months.

该报发行3 个月后停刊了。

Pollution poses a threat to the continued existence of this species.

污染对这一物种的继续生存造成了威胁。

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marriage

难度:4星核心词汇,属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.结婚;婚姻;紧密结合

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

It was a pleasant surprise to learn of her marriage.

得知她结婚是件令人惊喜的事。

A lichen is a compound organism, a symbiotic marriage of fungus and algae.

青苔是一种复合有机体,是真菌和水藻的共生结合体。

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display

难度:4星核心词汇,属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.显示;陈列;炫耀

vt.显示;表现;夸示

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

There will be a display of bronze statuary in this museum next week.

下星期这个博物馆将举办一个青铜雕塑作品展览。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

He had an opportunity to fully display his talents.

他有了大显身手的机会。

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democracy

难度:3星常用词汇,属常用6000词

英汉解释

n.民主国家;民主;民主制

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

Greece must have a system if it is to become a self supporting and self respecting democracy.

要想成为一个自立、自尊的民主国家,希腊必须有一个健全的体制。

The military government promised to restore democracy within one year.

军人政府答应在一年内重新建立民主体制。

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secure

难度:4星核心词汇,属常用3000词

英汉解释

adj.安全的;牢靠的;稳妥的

vt.使安全;获得;固定

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

We must create a secure and reliable international environment of lasting peace and stability.

我们要创造安全可靠、长期稳定的国际和平环境。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

We must prepare our claim and send it to the insurance company to secure payment.

我们得准备好索赔要求,并把它寄给保险公司以便获得赔偿。

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bound

难度:5星基本词汇,属常用1000词

英汉解释

adj.必定的;有义务的;受约束的;装订的

vi.跳;跳跃前进;猛涨

n.跳跃;范围;界限

动词bind的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

It's bound to rain soon.

过一会儿肯定会下雨。

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

The dog bounded down the hill.

狗跳跃着朝山下跑去。

用作名词 (n.)

With one bound, he was over the wall.

他纵身一跃就跳过了墙。

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